Description : "There is a war over childhood. Both commercial interests and moral conservatives want to control how kids are raised. But who’s actually listening to the kids?"
One of the chief complaints of the moral conservatives has always been the corrosive effect of modern music. A bit of historical research will show that the White Puritan tendency in Western culture has always treated popular entertainment with suspicion. The APA report fails completely…
Is the opposite of sexualization asexualization? And what is the ‘norm’ that the term sexualization presupposes a deviation from?
The APA task force regards sexualization to have occurred when:
a person’s value comes only from his or her sexual appeal or behavior, to the …
So thinking about it some more… The problem is the term sexualization. It’s clumsy. It’s superficial. It simplifies what is a complex cultural problem.
The real issue here is notions of beauty and how women (and men) of all cultures use beauty. It is true…
As I said in an earlier post, there is a real …problem with body image amongst children. I am just not convinced that the problem is sexualization, at least, not as is currently argued. The simple fact is that girls and women have always been
When I was growing up we were allowed to wander the streets. Over the decades there was moral panic over ‘stranger danger’ and the result was an end to free ranging.
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This is a great tragedy. In the GW magazine in the weekend Age (14/8/10)
Gotta love moral panic, especially when its whipped up by the tabloid press. Another article in the Herald Sun about the sexualisation of girls (August 13, 2010). The hypocrisy of course, is that the Murdoch empire includes interests in the music business. There was a…
I hate the word sexualised. It’s a weasel word. It can mean whatever you want it to mean and it begs the question. What is the appropriate level of ‘sexualisation’.
The old term used to be socialise. Children were socialised into the sexual norms of…
So let’s turn our attention to the moral conservatives. I name Michael Carr-Gregg, a popular child psychologist. Michael, unfortunately, gets a fair amount of media attention. I think it is deserved for his work on bullying and depression (something I do not wish to detract…
The recent publicity over Bill Henson has prompted me to explore this theme earlier than I had planned, but this will be the last, at least for now. This blog will cover much more than this relatively minor subject (so minor I wonder what all…
Let me introduce you to Miranda and Kai Beverly-Whittemore. Miranda and Kai (Vanessa) have posed (and continue to pose) for Jock Sturges and Mona Kuhn…. In her first novel Miranda tells the story of two sisters who pose nude as children, for a local
Ray is a Melbourne based writer. He has completed two novels and is currently going through the process of getting them published. Read his Biography
A work in progress – and something completely different. A crime novel about cultural and generational clashes. A series of murders in the Melbourne art world. 
Greenfields Site.
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