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What about Jenna Rose's music video "OMG" she's only 12....
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Lmao you're linking the Guardian, sure sign that you're morphing into a left wing pussy. Sort it out, but to be fair this is wrong, but parents would pull the parental freedom card and say "who are you to tell me how to dress my kids?" We live in a culture that demands perfection and nobody is perfect, do we change our culture? It's messed up and wrong but I don't quite know how to stop it.

It seems there are a lot of different factors in the sexualization of children. The internet being one, which coincides with parenting, as a child can look up anything on the internet if they are curious enough, but then the question is why the parents are not watching their child. If you give a child a laptop, or some time on the computer you must set-up the proper blocks, if not to sit and look over their shoulder.

Another reason I find is the media and peer pressure. Famous people like Rhianna, Lady Gaga etc. who know that a lot of their fans are younger, and therefore should be setting the standard, and the standard they're setting isn't very good, little girls (and boys) see how they dress and how they act, and want to replicate that. Then it is their peers pressurising them into liking these celeb's and telling them how they should be, how they should act. And they have to act like this to fit in, the alternative can be a very lonely existence as a child. I know I refused to be like my peers, smoking/having sex at a young age/doing drugs, and I paid for that by being a loner all through high school. But I am proud of who I have turned out to be, and as you grow older people accept you more for who you are, but as a child, it is very hard.

I think as people have been saying, the segregation between male and female is being made wider. With girls thinking that men are only interested in them for how they look and how good they are at sex and men thinking that the women expect the same. When really we just all want someone to hold us, accept us, and make us happy (am I right?)

I feel sorry for children these days, they have a lot of pressure on them.

We were the ones that made something natural like the naked human body a big deal. Now we're reaping the consequences.

At 9/17/11 05:14 AM, Xarnor wrote:
Link to video.

I find the comments even more disturbing than the costumes and sexual dance moves. It won't be long before sex is encouraged amongst younger people... and then younger... and then younger still.

If you want to view such a thing sexually it's your own problem. What I see is a bunch of kids taking part in something they enjoy and are obviously talented at, dancing.

i def agree that the media stipulates the youth into being stigmatized beyond repair. It's just not right.

I get so hyped with topics like these. That's why I rarely post in these kind of threads. From my experiences and what I have witnessed, its all about the parents. Its what the parents expose their children to. I'm just going to leave it at that before I get upset.

I'm a sophomore in high school at the time this post is being written. Allow me to present a unique perspective.

It's been my theory that this stems from childhood. Childhood advertising and toys clearly drives a gap between genders - there's are clearly "boys toys" and "girls toys". And most of all, girls toys are useless - they're babies and dolls and shit that doesn't do anything. Boys get legos, videogames (oh sure, unless you count casual games, but fuck off), sports supplies and the like. It's a clear gap that I think leaves boys at a clear advantage.

I'm going to disagree here, I haven't seen much of a distinction. Legos are unisex, i've played with em with my sister, we collaborated on a little block (I think I was 7 and she was 9 at the time), and while she was "girly" in what she built, putting flowers everywhere and building gardens in the houses, they were the same toys. I built trucks and roads and a police station, so what? Even today, I play videogames with girls, and they're Halo and Fable and other serious games with good co-op. I play the same games with guys too, they're fun and thats what matters.

Dude, girls + videogames = win.

I have to agree with OP that this is quite ridiculous. Television shows and media in general have gone way too far trying to make females look sexually attractive and only that. Women used to be respected and not looked upon just as a sex object. Nowadays we have whores and most men and teenage boys just want a blowjob or some pussy. It's pretty sad that there is girls getting pregnant at 14 and 15 and there are boys willing to even fuck them in the first place. At least wait until your 17 or older, like holy shit. I feel the youth is corrupted and sex is the culprit.

Don't know what the fuck you're talking about, I would never dream of having sex with a girl unless both of us were at least 18, she was on the pill and I was wearing a condom.

I'm not trying to sound like an activist or anything, but I think parents are also contributing to this. I think if children are raised correctly and are promoted to have safe sex at a normal age this wouldn't be such a big problem. Another thing is apparel. Girls wear small jean shorts and tank tops, which is the next closest thing to being fully nude. I think most girls around 12 & 13 see shit on television and are influenced by it. We basically can't do anything about it, because even if we attempt to prevent it, it's still going to happen.

Don't know what you are saying about being "raised correctly", but I'm a lot less of a douche then my parents were at my age. My mom drank and smoked pot when she was my age, but I don't. So girls dress slutty, that's their choice and I personally wouldn't try to date a chick like that, she doesn't respect herself.
Case in point, hollywood starlets. Emma Watson is attractive and classy. Miley Cyrus is a whore.

Three cheers for fear mongering.

Some cultural constructs begin to change and everyone's all up in arms about what it's going to do to our children. This same debate over sexuality in youth has been going on for a century, if not longer, yet society is still more or less in tact, or at least as in tact a it has ever been.

Is it not conceivable that children around the age of 10-12 can be curious about sexuality simply because that's the stage in life at which they are? Biology says so. The only reason we perceive things changing is that it's becoming more socially acceptable. And besides, how many people honestly lose their virginity at age 11? Some, but certainly not the majority or even any significant portion.

That "specialness" of sex that people cling to is nothing more than a cultural construct. It's nothing but tradition and the problem with clinging to tradition is that by doing so, you're applying yesterday's ideologies to today's world. The world changes and culture changes. That's just how society works. Tradition is a pipe dream.