Sexualising our children. Now we reap the results.

[KateLMead]

News is that children are being sexually abused by their peers is no surprise. Children raping children by all accounts is rife in UK.
The revolting explicit, supposedly educational films shown to children as young as five and six in schools, describing the pleasures of masterbation, pictures of Mummy and Daddy making love, these libbers have set out to destroy the innocence of childhood and they have succeeded. The film shows the naturalness of having two mummies or two Daddy's.
These damned fools have destroyed the beauty and innocence of childhood. We have damned supermarkets selling bikinis for children, make up. Beauty pageants for infants. I am furious. Furious that parents are not consulted before showing these films, but also by the acceptance of parents who know their children are being virtually sexually exploited and they do nothing.

[Workingman]

The report by the Children's Commissioner is pretty much as one would expect.

The usual suspects, pornography and raunchy music videos are mentioned as factors, along with Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB), social workers, police officers, health clinicians and teachers who are not aware of child sexual exploitation (CSE). The problems affect every strata of society: upper, middle and working classes in urban, rural, deprived and non-deprived areas. Everywhere!

What gets little or no mention is the constant pressure and sexualisation of children in magazines, TV programmes, school sex education, clothes, through toys, make-up, role play.........it is all about gangs and groups. Parents and guardians are barely considered, either positively or negatively, or as problems or part of the solution. It is seen as a State problem that only the State, through its various agencies, can solve.

Well I am sorry, but if there is a problem, and there is, then it will not be solved by denying that some facets of it exist.

[KateLMead]

So right Frank. .Excellent post.. What kind of society is being created for the up and coming generation?

[cromwell]

It is seen as a State problem that only the State, through its various agencies, can solve.

That's the problem; the apparatus of the State thinks that it knows best in any and all situations. We have a ruling class that thinks that if they don't enforce their wisdom on us, then they are letting us down because then we will not get the benefit of their superior intelligence.
So their is no aspect of life that they should not be in control of.
Well, the last 50 or 60 years of social policy have led us to where we are now.
A diminution of the family, a promotion and worship of youth over experience and a reduction of the power of authority figures like teachers and the police.

[Kaz]

I agree with every word of that Cromwell

[KateLMead]

And so do I Kaz.

[pederito1]

Agree with everything except perhaps that it often not "rape" with kids, the girls are up for it as much or even more that boys. Could be something to do with increased hormonal exposure in this era. The BBC`s portrayal of the characters in "Some Girls" is not far from reality.

[Aggers]

The trouble is that each generation, as they become adults, think they know better that their predecessors,
and scorn the views of older and wiser people. Modern IT has accelerated this process.

I think it is incredible just how much things have changed in my lifetime - Mostly for the worse, I fear.