such a thing as ‘too sexy’

At the risk of sounding very feminist right now, the media really sux for making young females these days think it’s cool to dress sexy at such a young age.

I hadn’t watched music videos for a long time while overseas (as I didn’t really watch TV) but as I flicked over to the music channel, I was shocked at the running theme of sex, sex, and more sex in nearly every music video. Especially considering the quite specific market these are playing to - young pre-pubescent girls.

Young girls clothing is getting more and more provocative. We have shops (catering to that age group) with slogans like “MILF in training”, “I taught your boyfriend that thing you like” or such blatant ones as “I screwed your boyfriend”.

More and more young girls are becoming sex objects – so who is to blame? Are these young girls going through earlier puberty (biology ahead of her mentality) and ‘growing up faster’ or is the celebrity-driven media and peers influencing them to want to wear these clothes?

Maybe the rampant sexual health statistics in New Zealand may have something to do with how they dress these days. Do these 10 - 14 year old girls even know what ‘being sexy’ means?

By sexualising these young girls they are being put in danger of being mistaken as being older which can have major consequences. Adults may find themselves attracted to young teens, so it makes me wonder if this is causing much bigger problems… anybody thinking paedophilia?

Most older guys would admit a few years back that Hilary Duff and the Olsen twins were hot even though they were around the age of 14 at the time. I guess the difference is being attracted to a young girl and actually ACTING on it. When researching this topic on google, not surprisingly most searches on “pre-teen girls and sexy” came up with hardcore porn, so has the term pre-teen become an erotic term in itself?

Are we going to wait until our 6 year olds are all dolled up, walking around with g-strings hanging out the top of their jeans before we feel the need to acknowledge this problem?