I don't understand the hysteria of children being 'sexualised'. Abuse is one thing, children (i use the term 'children' loosely, i am in fact referring to post-pubescents) being sexual beings and having an interest and natural curiousity about sex is another. Some may think it is wrong, but that has absolutely no impact on the reality, and furthermore that is simply an opinion, no more or less valid than the belief that it is in fact morally right (it's certainly natural, and that indisputable).
It depends on culture, of course. Colombia have an age of consent of 12, Spain has the lowest in Europe at 13, and they certainly don't think that they're immoral. To be honest i think childhood (a relatively new concept) goes on for far too long, and extended childhoods up to 18 or 21, mixed with cultural sexual ideology, can be damaging and a denial of natural, normal human behaviour. The wholesale buying of sex (the huge US porn industry, coupled with sexually provocative advertising. Sex sells because the supply responds to the demand.) and then the denial of it is so strange, a Victorian attitude. People covertly buying porn,then covering their table legs because they were considered to be 'obscene'.
Nudity does not necessarily mean 'sex' either, as i said earlier i posed naked at 15 for an art class - i sat naked , to be stared at, by a group of which the majority were men, and there was nothing sexual about it at all. I'm now 19 years old and a virgin who, if again in need of a quick and easy 50 quid, would do it again. Not because i have any discernable religious 'moral values' (i do not care what consenting adults get up to - orgies? Prostitution? Go for it, if that's what floats your boat), but rather because it holds no interest for me. Being comfortable naked, or even posing naked in front of people, does not mean that you WILL be a 'slut'.
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