'Youth To Pay For Sexual Contradictions'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I have just had the privilege of taking my 9 year old son and 7 year old nephew to a carnival in Sydney, Australia.
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To my utter despair, on a very cold autumn day in Sydney which required winter clothing for me and the boys, one of the earliest sites we saw while waiting in the queue for our tickets was countless young girls, aged between eight years up to their mid-teens, with skimpy-sized, ‘Daisy Duke’ cut-off jeans, not only exposing the length of their legs, but their buttocks too.
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I was left asking ‘in a society that prioritised above everything else the protection of children against sexual influence of any kind, what kind of social pressures, or perhaps social incentives, really do exist in our society that compels young girls to expose themselves in such cold weather, in such a sexually affronting manner?’

What does this then say about our very ‘in-your face’ public campaigns against child sexual abuse, and campaigns against the treatment of women as a whole as sexual objects? Are we as a society saying one thing, but doing the complete opposite in truth?

If we are, then our children, both girls and boys, are going to pay a high price for this contradiction.

As we left the carnival that day, a group of young girls, most of which were dressed in these short cut-off jeans, shuffled passed us, all locked in arms and singing in tune to what I think is currently a hit song on the radio.

“I am sexy and I know it”, they chanted as they buzzed passed us mocking the stares of other teenage boys in close proximity.

I hope for their sake, that they don’t really mean it.'