There is a difference between youth being more sexually active and promiscuous and youth wearing clothes and acting in a way that adults PERCEIVE as sexual.

Do you really think that an 8yo girl who doesn't wear a bra or listen to Britney Spears will be asexual. But put a bra and a CD in her hand and viola, she's a whore.

There's a very easy way to beat the "evil corporations". Ignore their marketing and if you don't agree with their methods, don't buy their products. Decreased sales will speak louder than whinging and government intervention ever will.

Children don't have money of their own, they don't have access to shops, transport, credit cards etc. They are totally reliant on their parents. The parents out there need to grow a pair and say NO to their children. How parents manage to justify to themselves that governments and corporations are responsible for the parenting of their children I will never understand.

The traditional Aborigines, the Old Anglo-Saxons, the New Guinea Highlanders, and the Nuba of Sudan all married pubescent girls. I suppose that was all the fault of that dreadful capitalism too?

Peter Hume you make an interesting point. Was it wrong for ancient peoples to marry young? Nothing to do with capitalism and your comment is another complete straw man of which your type are so fond.

The crux of this argument is....

Is it wrong for companies to use sexualised images/concepts to sell products to young children?

And the answer is bloody oath it is and no amount of squirming, weasel words and apologists for capitalism will change that.

Ah mikk give the people what they want. Where there's demand, supply should follow.

burbs,

'There is a difference between youth being more sexually active and promiscuous and youth wearing clothes and acting in a way that adults PERCEIVE as sexual.'

Exactly. I'm still getting over the '6 year olds acting like whores' quote.

In fact, I think I should repeat your whole post. It neads to be printed again...

'There's a very easy way to beat the "evil corporations". Ignore their marketing and if you don't agree with their methods, don't buy their products. Decreased sales will speak louder than whinging and government intervention ever will.

Children don't have money of their own, they don't have access to shops, transport, credit cards etc. They are totally reliant on their parents. The parents out there need to grow a pair and say NO to their children. How parents manage to justify to themselves that governments and corporations are responsible for the parenting of their children I will never understand.'

Peter Hume < "The traditional Aborigines, the Old Anglo-Saxons, the New Guinea Highlanders, and the Nuba of Sudan all married pubescent girls. I suppose that was all the fault of that dreadful capitalism too?"

No Peter, not capitalism. It was merely stoneage paedophile men acting for their own sick gratification before society as a whole banned the practice.
Unfortunately, some men today never evolved from those stoneage practices.

Get off it suze if a 14 year old marries a 12 year old it's hardly paedo. When there's grass on the wicket, it's time to play cricket!

Humans can reproduce and are ready for sex physically much younger than 16. It's just that in our society people under 18 don't have the resources for self determination and such, and have been molly coddled in comparison to the times when people got jobs at 14 digging coal.

'acting for their own sick gratification'
You really have issues with sex. Oh yes, men who want sex in times when the consent age are lower due to a different society with different life expectancies are acting for their own sick gratification!