Sexualisation
Child health experts told a Sydney conference last week that children as young as six are displaying inappropriate sexual behaviour – and that violent and sexually explicit images in advertising and popular culture were to blame.
Why wasn’t this front page news?
Most disturbingly, over the past decade there has been a 20-fold increase in the number of children being referred to the Australian Childhood Foundation with these serious problems. We’re talking about sexual assaults on other children by children, and sexualised play. (Ed’s note: See the news story on Sophie Mirabella’s call for tougher advertising restrictions here.
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The fetishisation of the female backside reached royal heights this week with the global worship of Pippa Middleton’s bum.
The frenzied prostration before the bottom of HRH Catherine Middleton’s younger sister and bridesmaid highlights anew the objectification of women deeply entrenched in our culture.
This was in the Daily Mail: Many women admired her dress, but an army of male fans were happily distracted by her shapely rear as the procession went up the aisle.
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Terence says:
Bad taste is just that, and really no excuses can justifying using it or expressing it excepting maybe in a personal loving way to your partner in a discreet private fashion. All this talk about free speech is just another excuse to show the world how vulgar and totally lacking… Read more »
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PW says:
When I ride my bicycle some folk in cars like to shout out things or even throw things occasionally. They believe they will not be called to account for their behaviour and most of the time (but not always) they are right. The internet is a thing whereby people, if… Read more »
Seen at the local pool: two bikini-clad girls – around 14 - simulating a sex act in the toddler pool, then pole dancing under the toadstool fountain while their delighted boyfriends recorded (and possibly distributed) the footage on their mobile phones.
It wouldn’t have happened back in the day, and that’s not just because we didn’t have the technology for it.
Am I wearing rose-coloured glasses, or were most early-teen girls in the 80s too scared of the Grim Reaper, and just too generally innocent, to put much more than a toe in the water (with a boy or a girl) - let alone cavort around in it in broad daylight like amateur porn stars, then plaster the evidence as far and wide as technology would allow (which wasn’t very far).
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