Comments on: Questioning The Moral Panic About “Sexualisation Of Children”

By: Porn For Women Retrospective 2010

Porn For Women Retrospective 2010 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:13:30 +0000

[...] * Moral panic about the “sexualisation of children” has also spurred numerous calls for censorship. In July a conference in the UK attended by Australian academic Catharine Lumby sought to cut through the nonsense and properly study the issue. They pointed out that most of the “research” on the issue is biased or poorly conceived. I wrote about the issue here. [...]

By: Sean the Blogonaut

Sean the Blogonaut — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:07:35 +0000

On the banning of so called porn mags, I did a little search for images of the Cosmo front page, every cover page 50-60% of the Tag/Straplines were sexually suggestive, ie 10 things guys crave in bed, how to climax together, how to read his dirty mind

Interesting hey?

By: John Oh

John Oh — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:53:37 +0000

Ms Naughty, I agree with your approach to this problem (I might even call it a predicament):

“So, talk to them about it. Teach them how to interpret images and think for themselves”

I agree 100%. Education, open discussion, introspection, critical thinking.

Sadly, that message is completely at odds with the core economic, religious, and political values of our society which are based on consumption, conformity, and not questioning the status quo.

There are few things more disruptive to our society than people who think for themselves and fail to fill the neat little social and economic pigeon holes ascribed to them.

One such pigeon hole is that young women are “nice” and don’t watch porn. Another seems to be that there is something wrong with anyone who hasn’t lost their virginity by their early twenties.

Children who learn about and become sexually active earlier than their peers are called “sexualised”. Adults who haven’t lost their virginity (but wish to) are said to “suffer” “involuntarily celibacy”. I find it really worrying that people who stray from the arbitrary definition of “normal” end up being labelled and diagnosed as if they have some kind of illness.

So lets take a long hard look at ourselves and the things that we value in our society. Get the foundations right and we might just find that a lot of these “problems” just disappear.

Thanks for a thought provoking post as usual.