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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:00 AM

News flash: Sex is sold to young girls!

A report argues that the media is hypersexualizing adolescents, leading to an "ideology of seduction."

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Monday, June 23, 2008 07:24 PM

I guess if you teach your young women

that a man's morality, or honesty, or decency, or integrity is second or third AFTER his sexiness (or, EVEN, totally irrelevant) then, yes, you will get girls trying to chase down the scumbags of the planet who get sucked in by big tits, short skirts, and dumbness.

Feminism really ought to do its homework. Study after study after study of men and their wants proves over and over that most men want a GGG girl who has some ambition and brains, is kind and honest and (TADA!) has A FREAKING LIFE OF HER OWN.

To get a life of her own, a girl needs interests BEYOND makeup and heels.

I guess that is how girls operate. They are lazy and stubborn. They get sucked in by the vortex of their own prejudices young, then they persist even well AFTER they have failed over and over and over to find a DECENT CHAP.

Sure, you can get lousy shallow men, but is this what you women want? TO be dollies?

Methinks, women fail to analyze or see possibilities beyond this and WORSE, fail to then instill in their youth some element of self valuation based on more than tits.

IT is a problem of the expectation forming the result and women are in charge of it-- God KNOWS I've passed up hundreds of bimbos to find the brainy girl I am now happy with (and whom I am keeping quite happy).

Monday, June 23, 2008 07:46 PM

Of course...

.. sex is used to market everything to everyone.

Even the Evening News uses Katie Couric to appeal to geriatric males, so why should hot young girls be exempt from the relentless commercialization and commodification of everything?

It is all about expanding markets to make more profits.

Let's eavesdrop on a sales strategy meeting in the lingerie industry.

"The market for brassieres is saturated? Oh well, maybe we can sell them to men. There are plenty with boobs these days.

No wait, that won't fly unless the wives do the shopping for them, so how about we market them to young girls that don't even have titties yet to develop their brand loyalty. God knows, the parents will be stupid enough to fall for that one, especially the mothers. Genius... For our next trick we sell oil to the sheiks".

Monday, June 23, 2008 07:47 PM

Seduce this

Ms Lysiane comment come from comfort of age and nostalgia for era of Marilyn Monroe. But imagine Marilyn in 2008. For sure she need for slim down at least two size which would reduce size of breast and increase need for augment, and scene over subway grate no work one bit unless she remove underwear.

Ideology of seduction make it sound so seductive. This is ideology of reduction.

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