We should try and stay on topic, even in the light of the recent warnings/bannings.
I'm still interested in knowing why people feel:
- we are sexualizing children by having them dance
- sexualizing children is wrong
- that a person who understand sex is a worse person than one who doesn't
I believe I have already covered 1 and 2, while 3 is moot to the discussion in this thread. No one has said that people who understand sex are "worse" but there is a time when you should understand it versus a time when you should not. If you don't have a television, you don't buy cable. If your sex drive isn't active yet, you don't have sex. You can know that cable requires television, but you don't know all its ins and outs until you have experienced it. It's the same basic concept.
Here's a short recap if you don't feel like reading the two lengthy posts I have made already:
1) We are
not sexualizing children by having them dance. This is an oversimplification. The joining of the clothes, the specific dance moves, and the subject matter of the song is what makes it sexual. Children dancing is not inherently sexual, however. Just like being naked is not inherently sexual, but if you're posing in an alluring way it is. It's a similar idea. Dancing has been used not only for entertainment and cultural purposes, but also for sexual and erotic purposes. Denying that is just silly.
2) "Children should not be sexualized by people who are out of their age range", I suppose would be the safest, most scientific way to put this. To put it in an example, it is okay for a 10 year old to look at another 10 year old and say, "I'd like to kiss her!" while it is
not okay for a 20 year old to look at a 10 year old and say, "I'd like to kiss her!" Children, by nature, are sexually undeveloped. It is not that we shouldn't teach them anatomy and why things are the way they are, it's more that they simply aren't there yet. When a boy (or girl, in my case) starts thinking how he (or she) likes breasts, that is the point where a child becomes a sexual being. These girls, presumably as they are seven, are just
not there yet. The problem isn't, also, that children are being made sexual, it is that children are being presented in such a way that it is immensely easy to
perceive them as sexual. This leads to social ramifications, like them being called whores. When people view them in a way that is different to they way they view themselves, they might then go, "Why is it like this? Maybe it's because I am." without realizing fully what that means.
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