Socially Acceptable Child Porn?

Indeed technology has contributed to the growth of child pornography and solicitation in our society … In the click of a mouse, the Internet can deliver your heart’s desire in mere seconds and from anywhere in the world – thanks to the three “A’s”: Access, Affordabilty, Anonymity.

Socially Acceptable Child Porn?
Most Americans are quick to agree that child porn is unacceptable; we become angry and disgusted and outraged and seek to punish pedophiles, along with those who peddle and purchase child porn. However, few seem to be willing to acknowledge, let alone become outraged and angry and driven to do anything about, the way corporate America has managed to make it socially acceptable to use children every day to sell their products — using sex.

Xposed – Pushing Corporate America Out Of the Closet
The mixed messages and hypocrisy start here – but leave it to Corporate America to make billions advertising, promoting and selling sex, while keeping their hands (and images) squeaky clean, so they can manage their ever bulging bank accounts.

Pedophile-chic
Hot models now begin their careers at ages 12, 13 and 14. Few and far between are the models that can pull in the big bucks after age 30 – super, or not. Some modeling agencies won’t look seriously at girls who are over the age of 16 and you can flip through any fashion magazine and see how many sexually provocative ads you find – using models that are “underage” when it comes to the sex they are selling. Yes, sex in advertising sells and it’s very typically teen models being used to sell sex – along with the products.

Kids — The New Eye Candy?
Abercrombie and Fitch was making and selling so many thongs — to seven year olds, with slogans like “wink, wink” and “eye candy” written across the crotch that, finally, parents took action and created an online petition to stop them from doing so. Abercrombie and Fitch’s “magalog,” (a term referred to their catalogue that looks like a magazine) is marked “for adults only” and can only be purchased, for $7 by those 18 and over with a photo ID. “The Christmas Field Guide,” (A & F’s Christmas catalog) doesn’t begin advertising clothes until page 120, but it does contain 45 specific portrayals of sexual imagery including overt portrayals of group sex, lots of teen and young adult nudity, and teens and young adults frolicking in a river engaging in sexual activity in multiple group settings. A & F’s “blue” catalog is under attack from the National Coalition for the protection of Children & Families – but perhaps it’s time to start referring to these types of companies and advertisers ffor what they really are – socially acceptable child porn peddlers.