MikeBravo
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The problem is when kids are being forced to define themselves in terms of sex when they're still, basically, children. It has nothing to do with what you do -- I don't imagine your shows admit people under 18, right? The problem is exactly what these girls in Waterville pinpointed it as -- sex being used by corporate entitites to sell stuff to teenagers, and to make them even more susceptible to that marketing by making them as insecure as possible about their bodies and their sense of self. This kind of marketing couldn't care less about the emotional well-being of the girls it's pitching to -- all it wants to do is sell them crap. And it uses sex as the marketing vehicle precisely because it knows that's where adolescent girls are most insecure and vulnerable. *That* is what I consider a vicious, evil business.
I wholeheartedly agree, and thanks for bringing the thread back to it's initial premise.
The issue I have is the constant bombardment of billboards, television ads and programmes that include overt sexuality in their very fabric. Not to mention women being submissive to men (between their legs as someone mentioned in this thread) to sell shoes, car insurance or whathaveyou.
I cetainly don't have any issues with Burlesque, or stripping for that matter and I don't believe they have an impact on young women as much as television, if at all.