Actually, this brings up something that's been bugging me for a while now that I think about it.
We're all for beating down on pedophiles, and I've got nothing against that if they're convicted. But has anyone looked at a K-mart type catalogue lately? It's just hit spring here, so we're starting to see swimwear show up, and I swear, some of the poses that they put the kids in are pretty similar to some of the poses in my copies of Private.
I've noticed that clothing advertising in general is getting pretty fucked up in the age of the models (usually around 14 for adult's clothing) and the poses they put them in, and the looks they're giving the camera. Is anyone checking these damn photographers? Or the advertising people that let this shit through?
Hell, the clothing itself! I was going through a mall here the other day (finding new places to BTSpam in) and there are shops that have Playboy gear for kids that are still in single digit birthday cards! WTF!?!? There was JimBeam brand clothing for the boys... I suppose that makes it alri--NO IT FUCKING DOESN'T!!!
In the meantime, we recently had an issue with an art-photographer, Bill Henson, who had a lot of his nude work confiscated because some of his nearly 20 year old prints were of a nude kid (as in, they'd been displayed without issue for nearly 20 years now).
WTF is going on with society when we say it's ok to sexually objectify kids for commercial purposes so long as there's a few strings of clothing on them, when we have teenie-porn where the object is to have a girl that looks 14 (and possibly fitting that many guys into her simultaneously), to in every way possible sexualise these kids... but then actually bring the hammer down when someone's brain snaps and they can't quite make out that blurry line anymore.
I'm actually thinking that perhaps intense psychiatric counselling would be a better option (particularly if you see the state that most psychiatric prisons are in and you're a vindictive sort of person) given the mixed messages that our current culture seems to be sending out.
Don't get me wrong here! I'm not saying that kiddy porn and molesting kids is ok. I'm just saying that I think a lot of market forces are to blame for the apparent rise in incidences of it.
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