"their kid's ears pierced - even going so far as to call it child abuse. Talk about a gulf of class-condencension! Kids are raised according to the cultural values of their doting parents - however so innocently perceived and appreciated,"

While, of course the working classes would be just as likely to consider sending off little Oliver to boarding school as the same sort of thing. Class condescension maybe. But yes, cultural values are always relative, including those of loving African mothers who have their infant girl children's clitoris' cut off, who also do what they do - and very sincerely too - out of love.

Can't say I'm 'shocked or outraged' by little girls being coached to do sexy wiggles for doting adults in the Brownies or anywhere else, but I do prefer children to be able to explore their sexual expression among themselves for themselves without the loving interventions of adults working class or otherwise.