Am I becoming a prude?

I do think that some folk have confused 'standards' regarding sex/sexualised behaviours.

I have met many parents who dress their children in what I would consider inappropriate adult style clothes for primary aged children but these same parents are quick to complain that their 6 year olds are changing into PE tops/shorts in a mixed classroom area! Little children generally just get on with changing at this age and think nothing of it! I think it is only as children move into pre-adolescence that they need to be segregated for changing to afford appropriate privacy

Children tend not to be aware of 'sex' unless someone has commented to them about it. Sometimes it is an older sibling but more often they see it on the TV with parents sitting in the same room with them. If parents do not manage what kids watch , talk about what they are seeing or teach them, age appropriate facts about bodies, relationships, reproduction etc then we continue to have youngsters who have a confused understanding of sex and relationships. This leaves them in a more vulnerable position.

I too think it is wrong to have dancing that simulates sex on TV at family viewing time and I am no prude!

I think I vere towards "prudity". and the following rant will prove that.

I am particularly concerned about the clothing for young girls. I think mumsnet has tried to challenge this with concerns about bras for very young girls and rather "saucy" almost sexualised messages on clothing for that group.

I think these products are potentially very damaging as they very subtly push the image of young girls as being more sexually available, to well below the age of puberty.

If the mums who buy this stuff thought about the images this clothing was presenting and started complaining I suspect manufacturers would soon have to stop making it. The problem is perhaps, that these young mums have been brought up in a world much more open to sexually explicit images etc, than we ever were and maybe no longer see these potential dangers for their younger daughters.

I do not go with the makers line that "they provide it because people want it."
Their designers thought it up in the first place and promote it in their shops as desirable, after which a degree of peer pressure to buy it takes over.

Sexual liberation is one thing encouraging ever younger children to these ideas seems wrong. Is it perhaps just a little way down the slippery slope of exposing children to pornograpy?
Proudly a bit of a prude!

I have nothing against seductive dancing in an adult disco - I've done a bit of it myself. It is when young girls and boys do it that I find it offensive - not appropriate for little ones.

I so agree about the clothing for young girls (and indeed boys) - so much of it is inappropriate and some of the things written are indeed also so.

But the parents buy the stuff!!

Anybody who knows me would be very amused at the thought of my becoming prudish. I have done my share of embarrassing disco dancing in my early 40s when I should have known better but I blame the demon drink. In my own defence I must say there were no children present. As a teenager in the 1950's, I dressed very modestly and it didn't seem to stop me getting plenty of boy friends. I didn't like it when mini skirts came into fashion, as my thighs were never the best parts of my legs. With maturity, I came to realise that what a woman hints at is much more alluring than what she puts on display.

I agree with everything that has been said about the early sexualisation of children and I particularly dislike that American circus of Beauty Pageants,where girls as young as four are taught to gyrate their hips in suggestive dances, whilst plastered in make-up and singing adult songs.

Now that she has escaped from Tom Cruise, I hope Katie Holmes will stop allowing Suri to dress so inappropriately - those shoes are no good for young feet!

Nelliemoser. I agree [like emoticon]. Going to have a t shirt made - 'proud to be a prude'. I can wear it when the 'proud to be a pleb' is in the wash.

nfk

'Prude & Proud' am really tempted to get one made!

Ooh. Three t shirts!