WUNRN

http://www.wunrn.com

 

NOW National Organization for Women USA

http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/presentations/SexStereotypesBeauty/SexStereotypesBeauty.pdf

NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Campaign illustrates and describes how advertisers and the media enforce unrealistic beauty standards, sexual ideals and gender stereotypes that girls and women are motivated to follow. The impacts of these images can be complex and serious for the health and well-being of women and girls.

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MEDIA & MARKETING MESSAGES TO GIRLS, NOW YOUNGER THAN EVER

http://www.sosexysosoon.com/ 

 

SO SEXY, SO SOON - Book - Direct Link to 8-Page Introduction:

http://www.sosexysosoon.com/introduction.pdf

 

 

Thong panties, padded bras, and risqué Halloween costumes for young girls. T-shirts that boast “Chick Magnet” for toddler boys. Sexy content on almost every television channel, as well as in books, movies, video games, and even cartoons. Hot young female pop stars wearing provocative clothing and dancing suggestively while singing songs with sexual and sometimes violent lyrics. These products are marketed aggressively to our children; these stars are held up for our young daughters to emulate–and for our sons to see as objects of desire.

 

Popular culture and technology inundate our children with an onslaught of mixed messages at earlier ages than ever before. Corporations capitalize on this disturbing trend, and without the emotional sophistication to understand what they are doing and seeing, kids are getting into increasing trouble emotionally and socially; some may even to engage in precocious sexual behavior. Parents are left shaking their heads, wondering: How did this happen? What can we do?