I see what you mean akenaton. While I always see children as innocent, it's true that nowadays, as you say, money-making ventures profit from sexualising them. I can't understand parents who buy sexy bikinis and little bras for their young girls. I realise that all little girls like to pretend to be a grown-up lady (we used to totter around in our mum's high heels) but to let them use make-up, lipstick, nail varnish, shoes with raised heels, sexy clothes etc and to allow them to access porn sites in the evenings in their rooms is curtailing their childhood and inviting trouble. It's all very unwholesome. I especially deplore children's clothes with suggestive words printed on them. It's almost a direct invitation to paedophiles. But none of this reflects on the children themselves of course. They are and remain innocent and vulnerable. I know and understand children very well, having sat with thirty at a time in a classroom for a lifetime of teaching. Even at twelve, they are still vulnerable and in spite of acting 'grown up' they emphatically are not. Anyone who abuses these innocent youngsters deserves all the courts can throw at them.