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Thread #127658   Message #2850590
Posted By: Lox
26-Feb-10 - 05:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Sexualisation of our Children
Subject: RE: BS: The Sexualisation of our Children
The report referred to in this thread concerns the bombardment of children with sexual images through media and advertising.

I also recognize this problem to be real and serious, and I hate the whole corporate propaganda thing that goes with it, which says that unless you are young and sexually attractive according to the definiton implied by advertisers trying to sell their product, then you do not fit in with cultural norms as prescribed by advertisers.

Advertisers add to the many pressures faced by young girls and young women today in a cynical and cruel way, by playing on their already bombarded insecurities.

I agree that children being used to advertise pornography, as is the case when a 12 year old wears playboy promotional merchandizing, is offensive on the deepest, most subterranean level.