Sexual Images of Children in the Media: Promoting Pedophilia?
 

So I was cruising the internet for creepy pictures to post in people's profiles and came across this image:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/...1e159c354d.jpg

Needless to say, Im a little....A LOT....creeped out by this.

I started thinking about ALL of the images and ways that children are sexualized in the media, in pop music, and through toys and wanted a place to talk about it so we could all recognize it a little better.

My baby sis was 9 when she asked for her first Bratz doll. I was not amused by them. Any others?

I wonder why our society rages against pedophilia but so easily embraces the sexualization of children?

This type of media campaign totally creeps me out.

Why do they feed pedophiles these kind of images?

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http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/image..._doll_full.jpg

Totally big time fucked up. The fact that they used a child and the word sexy should be illegal. Someone should file a law suit. If someone hasnt already lets do it.

all i can say to that is .... wow O_O

I was flipping through the channels the other night, and saw a part of Toddlers & Tiaras (the reality show about baby pagents ~ think JonBenet Ramsey). It's hard to believe that they have swimsuit events, dress these LITTLE girls up like 20 year old models, and teach them to be flirty with the winking, blowing kisses & shaking their butts. I can't even imagine the self esteem & body image issues these kids are gonna deal with later on down the line. Not to mention, giving pedophiles a "legal" way to have access to these children.

A little while back, there was a lot of debate about a group of 7 year old girls at a dance competition, dancing to Beyonce's "Single Ladies", and even got attention from the ladies on the View.

GIRL, we had MEGA debates about this at my job!!!!!

O.M.G.

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http://thelaughingstork.com/wp-conte...pyDiaperAd.jpg

Ugh...this is so disturbing on so many levels.

That Baby Soft ad really does appear to be photoshopped to have a child's face and an adult hand...a pole dancing doll...a sexualized image of a child so young as to be wearing a pull-up...just so wrong. And that video...just gives me chills.

I believe that, as a society, we really need to allow children to be innocent and children as long as possible...and we need to protect that. The most disturbing thing to me is the parents who find this entertaining or amusing or (worst of all) something to be proud of.

And this?? This "you must compete with your young dauther because purity and virginal skin is WAY more desireable than an adult woman" thing?

Oh. HELL. No.

http://pzrservices.typepad.com/.a/6a...f8a4970c-400wi

Gross
 

http://www.feministing.com/archives/013072.html
 

Here is the sad thing..

These ads are all over magazines, and parents don't blink twice which is disturbing cause yanno your 11 year old has to have that pair of Diesel Jeans

Really??

Gross

You KNOW this has got to come from one of those "you cant start em' too early" camps...



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Not Walt's Idea of Disney...
 

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15 Year Old Brooke Shields
 

Why in the world, would a BABY need high heels?! I just don't get it!!

http://www.areavoices.com/rrvwt/imag...eels_for_b.jpg

So that a few years later her parents can do this to her....

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4OuEfH0ftZ...ty+pageant.jpg

...and it will already feel "normal"
Ugh.

More Disney Princess Types
 

I saw something on tv one time about child pageants and how some of those children get spray-tanned, hair extensions, eyelash extensions, and even capped teeth!

Huggies Commercial Running Now
 

Way to go MOM! NOT
 

http://cdn1.crackle.com/profiles/cha...tTileSmall.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr....2FqHWdLLNzg%3D

Not only let them, but cheered and clapped.... I truly don't understand.

And we can't forget Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby....

Does anyone remember that movie "Birth" with Nicole Kidman where the little boy was claiming to be her long-dead husband?

CREEPY.

These images are creepy.

Could we please though not let this develop into a my image is creepier than your image contest? (We all know that images like these exist. I just wonder about the benefit - potential harm? - of reproducing them here).

Words (personal triggers acknowledged)

Not trying to squick anyone out, Words, but I get what you are saying.

I am ok with linking to the page where the images reside (these are all hotlinked to someone else's webspace) so that people will have to click through a link. My intent was so that we could see what different types of media manipulation looks like (for instance, the baby heels? I would have never been able to picture that!)

Isn't it odd that for the most part the sexual media sticks with our girl children?

SO true, and do you think that the toys that revolve around motherhood and being a wife and (EEEEKKKKK!!!) a *breastfeeding vest with a doll that sucks* for a 5-year-old to wear is a form of over-sexualization.

I mean, girls receive images and messages just about from the time they are born that they must be a mother, a wife, etc. etc.

Ai. Yi. YI.

From early on girls are encouraged to be in supportive roles. Hence the toy vacuums, kitchens, make up, princess outfits, breast feeding dolls and pregnant Barbies.

I keep waiting for there to be a Child Support Ken or a chefs set for toddler boys.

Instead boys are given trucks, tools, and narcissistic superheroes. They are frowned upon when attempting to engage in what is considered "girl" play.

Which of course takes us to adulthood, where it is perfectly normal for Hugh Hefner the Crypt Keeper to shack up with three twenty somethings...but the media is rabid about Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore getting married and it spawns a series of "Cougar" themed media.

Just blech.

SO.

What the fuck do you say to a Mom who drags a tot to these pageants? I want to slap them. Each and every one of them.

Why would a boy get a 'chef's set' to play with, but a girl just gets a stove and pots and pans?

I'm not picking on you, but this shit pisses me off. When boys DO get a cooking toy...he's a 'chef'...but when a girl gets a cooking set, she's 'just a housewife'?


Again, It Just Pisses Me Off,
Dylan...so off topic, I'm sure, and no...I haven't caught up. I'm committing my own pet peeve as we speak