Tijuana bibles which were little underground comic books that were illegally published during the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s and featured pornographic drawings were not only a beginning to print pornography but the demeaning depiction of women. However, the comic books offended not only women but also political leaders and legends. From this I conclude that the comic books portrayed the people with power, the power of the leaders in the society as well as the sexual power women think they have. For many years, women have been treated as property whose selling point was their sexual attractiveness. Women have been objectified and men were threatened by this sexual attractiveness as it was used as a tool to control their minds.  This is why women believe that their sexual attractiveness empowers them and will get them farther than those women who are less sexually attractive. Some women think that good looks will get them far or at least assist them achieving a successful career and they maybe correct because the sexual power given to the women in the media shows just that.  There are two ways to look at women being portrayed sexually in the media during the 1930’s when the Tijuana bibles were published and today- sexual portrayal of women is demeaning or the portrayal of sexual attractiveness gives women power over men. Today however, women want to be seen for more than just looks but for what they think and what they do and not how they look.

It is interesting that the Tijuana bibles gave rise to the pornographic magazines and pornographic photographs and content in them yet are similar now to the computer-generated pornography today. We thus transitioned from fictious pornography to real pornographic photography and now back to fictious pornography, which unlike the images in the Tijuana bibles look more believable due to advanced technology we have today. Once again, technology and pornography are intertwined. It is also interesting how in the early cartoons; pornography consisted simply of nude cartoonish dolls unlike now where pornography is made up of sexual acts performed by the subjects.