National Geographic was a bigger purveyor of pornography over the years than Playboy. No more indigenous naked people to photograph however.
The Playboy clothing line is made for older teens (people above the age of consent)and at least in the mall I work at (part time) is only sold in Spencers next to the marijuana leaf stuff, the drinking stuff, and other far worse "sexual" objects. It is nowhere near any Disney merchandise.
I believe the merchandise from many other stores has indeed made young children (5 to 15) more sexual. I'd like to know who at Abercrombie and Fitch decided to have suggestive things written across the butts of their young girls shorts (in my day they were called hot-pants)or worse the pair of cherries decorating the crotch of the undergarments! What happened to little girls being little girls?
Worst of all though is the parents who will buy the stuff, let them out of the house in it, or take them places while they're wearing it! It may be cool, it may be "what everyone else is wearing", but it isn't going to be on my daughter!
In the case submitted in the first post I don't think four pounds is outrageous. The medical community and the insurance community have gotten out of hand lately. Even though it's been proven that people who are slightly over their recommended weight (which is actually 20 to 30 pounds over their ideal weight)get sick less and recover faster from illness than people at their recommended weight!
I was told my "Ideal" weight was 175 pounds even though I'm 5'11", with a 17.5 inch neck, 7.75 inch wrist and a 50 inch chest!
I asked the doctor if that included the weight of the coffin I'd be in!