Sexualization In The Media Essay

There has been a recent insurgence of the sexualization of youth and children, more so in females, and this could be attributed largely in part by the media’s disregarding of the developing, highly impressionable mind of the youth influencing them to dress and act more provocatively. It has been literal centuries since children younger than 16 have been thought of and were told to act as women, It isn’t even the youth that are at fault, the pop idols they look up to have a history of over sexualization in the media leading children to follow. I was under the notion that we have evolved as a peoples to not accept this kind of behavior out of children but apparently not. The thought that children are supposed to be innocent is a relatively recent concept. “ Historically, a mother saw a little girl as a smaller, unspoiled version of herself, and so a daughter should be formed in her mother's image” (George 2) We have grown past this forgotten concept. We now know children are to be their own individuals, and in today's society time and time again reminds the youth them they are, different, and special. In today’s society we award children a right to have childhood to learn. We have segregated sexuality as an adult part of life but the lines have been blurred. Teenagers, attempting to emulate adults, and kids attempting to emulate teenagers have taken the …show more content…
That’s 2 hours of marketing and exposure to the media kids receive everyday. “There is a popular marketing spin…. kids are getting older younger” (George 3) The media has clung to this concept marketing adult concepts to children believing that is what they’d like. Toys have changed from Cabbage Patch Kids, a pudgy baby like doll to the newer line of doll called Bratz, a disproportionate, done up doll. Problems are arising everywhere with the marketing mindset “kids are getting, older