Ghosts in the Sexy Air Our Kids Breathe
3rd October 2011
I thought of that Barbie column that when reading part one of a Deseret News feature that ran under the headline, “The end of innocence: The cost of sexualizing kids.”
This may sound strange, here at GetReligion, but one of the strongest points of this feature is that it seriously downplays the religion side of this subject, leaning instead on source after source after source from mainstream academia and other research organizations. It’s hard to count them all.
The story starts in the tarted-up atmosphere of the typical American shopping mall — in Salt Lake City, the big city in the middle of Mormon territory. You walk along with the young families and their young children, seeing what there is to see. Then the story moves you into the land of pre-teen and teen television.