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Lolita and the Sexualization of Childhood

July 12, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Joshua
2008-07-15 16:44:50

It’s only a matter of time before the other shoe drops.

A wise man (Orwell?) once said that revolution is merely the act of kicking in a rotten door. Well, as this post and its comments have made clear, the door separating children and sexuality has become thoroughly rotted through to the point where its lock and its bar have become all but irrelevant, and where that door now seemingly awaits only that fateful kick for all hell to break loose.

The only questions now are, who will deliver that kick, and when? If our entertainment and fashion industries have taken childhood sexuality to the brink of the cultural mainstream, how much longer before someone in academia, our education system, the MSM etc. tries to push it the rest of the way in, then lobby for its full legal sanction and political protection (including for the adults who partake in it)? What’s the over/under on when the notion that childhood sexuality isn’t such a good thing starts to be mentioned in the same breath as racism, homophobia, Islamophobia and global-warming denial?

And how will the American people respond when that happens?