I found an interesting article on child pornography and sexually explicit images of young girls. The article talks about the steps Tokyo is taking to make the laws regarding sexually explicit ads featuring under-aged models as well as the publication and sell of Japanese anime/manga featuring under-aged sex. This is a very thought provoking bit of news for me because I myself am a young woman. I find it disgusting that this stuff sells and that it has taken Japan so long to do something about this horrible occurrence, but I think what angers me the most is the under-aged models or "junior idols." It is so awful that these girls are being exploited, because that is exactly whats going on. They are not old enough to understand the consequences of their actions they don't understand that this is going to haunt them for the rest of their lives and that to me is the worst part. I'm mean if young looking girls are what's hot it is perfectly possible to find a young looking woman old enough to understand the full implications of what she is doing. To me there is nothing lower than someone who would pray upon the innocence and naivety of a young girl. Reading about this made me want to go take a shower in bleach, repeatedly.
I understand your outrage on this subject, I feel the same way for our culture. But I feel we can't put our beliefs on other countries. If we did that what would we complain about? I have three daughters the ages 6,13,25 and they are exploited daily. The schools they attend there is a need to wear what the sexy girls do on TV or your an outcast. Then the one that works has to wear a low cut blouse and she is very large bested. These thing drive parents nuts, but this is what help the children grow to understand what is right and wrong.
ReplyDeleteI have a very negative outlook on exloiting young women and making them out to be sex objects. I am a parent myself and it is disturbing that young women are subjected to this. Simply by TV shows and media, teens are forced to look a certain way in order to feel beautiful and fit in to society.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone should make money off of "trashing" the opposite sex, and that is what pornography is to me...the trashing of sex, rather than an act of intimacy and love.
ReplyDeleteDeborah from the Arts blog.