How Sez Sees It

In the last week there have been lots of stories about the sexualisation of children.  Several high street chains have pledged to stop selling clothes that would be inappropriate for young children such as padded bras and t-shirts that say slogans like 'Porn Star in training'.  The trouble is we still see examples in the media every day...but not of the sexualisation of children but of hypocrites. I remember reading a story a few months back about two young mothers who let their eight year old daughters dress up as Lady Gaga every weekend to perform at children's parties.  These costumes are hardly the sort of thing you would want your child to wear normally and yet these parents seem to think it is the norm.  Underneath the story there were many comments saying how bad this was, but there were others saying that the children were enjoying it so why stop it?  These are the same commentators who go the comments pages of stories about underage sexual assult...