Women are used for one purpose in this film, sex. In modern movies, women have developed characters and are not simply viewed as objects. They cover their breasts and buttocks because they have brains. In this film, the women are focused on sex. They fondle after men, literally chase and grope them to show that they are available. The disgusting and exaggerated objectification of women is meant to be comical but it associates women only to being sexual objects and not individuals. A woman in this film, Philia, is a great example of this. The audience meets her in a brothel and from very early on it is established that she is a virgin. The focus is instantly put on her sexual status and not on who she is as a character. She is being sold to a man, Captain Miles Gloriosus, and he is very intrigued that she is a virgin. Philia is simply just property and nothing more proving once again that she is just and object and not an individual. 

 

              Not only are the women portrayed as drooling sexual creatures, their bodies are objectified in an obscene fashion. Throughout the film, women are dressed in scandalous costumes. Marcus Lycus’ brothel is full of prostitutes that show off their bodies. These women do not speak, their only purpose is for show. Their exposed breasts call the audience too look and objectify them. They dance in a very seductive way and twirl their limbs in order to put the audience in a sexual trance. Going back to the fact that they have no role in the film, not even one line or monologue, makes it obvious that they are only for visual consumption. The directors want the audience to look at their figures and fondle over their attractiveness, objectifying them in the most humiliating way and creating an epic amount of controversy.