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Thread #127658   Message #2850708
Posted By: Emma B
26-Feb-10 - 08:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Sexualisation of our Children
Subject: RE: BS: The Sexualisation of our Children
Difficult one catspaw

However, one of the suggestions however which I can only heartily endorse is that

"Escort agencies, lap-dancing clubs, massage parlours and television sex channels should be banned from advertising vacancies in job centres arguing that it promotes the "normalisation" of the adult entertainment industry as a "viable career choice".

There does semm to be a "drip drip effect" where the "previously unthinkable becomes widely acceptable" in modern society.

Certainly, magazines targeted at teenage and pre-teen girls stress the need for girls to present themselves as sexually desirable (note desirable NOT available - please avoid highly emotive language like 'tarts'!) in order to attract male attention.

The author of the report also opines that in magazines aimed at young men "The predominant message for boys is to be sexually dominant and to objectify the female body." and even "blur the lines between pornography and mainstream media"

But how to conteract / reverse this trend........ ?