Above is a pic of my youngest daughter and me.
My Husband, My brother in Christ
Because It's Wrong
Here is an excerpt from an article about the photo taken of Miley Cyrus. It includes quotes from men in a sex offender recovery program after they viewed the photo:
"Some offenders have described pictures like this as 'gateway porn,'" says Dr. Scott Hampton, Director of Ending the Violence in Dover, New Hampshire. "Similar to describing pot as a gateway drug -- a relatively mild drug that someone uses en route to harder drugs like cocaine or heroin.""I showed this picture to men in my offender program," Hampton wrote to me by e-mail, "and asked them to tell me what message it might be conveying." Here is a sampling of responses:
"Children are sexual objects."
"It is OK for adults to fantasize about having sex with kids."
"Children want to and are ready to have sex."
"Sex offenders are only doing what children want them to."
"Children are able to seduce adults into having sex with them."
One offender who was convicted of possessing child pornography said, "When I used to look at pictures like that, it would reassure me that I wasn't doing anything wrong; it made it easy for me to commit my crime . . . Oh, and by the way, that is child pornography.""The production and distribution of 'gateway porn' is a way that society grooms people into becoming sex offenders," writes Hampton. "In other words, those pictures normalize the association between sex and children, making it appear that such an association is appropriate."
Those images also fuel the idea that little girls should aspire to be sexual objects.
...if the question should come up and I am asked by my daughters why Hannah Montana took a picture with her clothes off, clutching her private parts, I will be honest:
She took her clothes off because an adult told her to. And no adult has the right to tell a child to take her clothes off or touch her private parts.
Because it's wrong.
You can read the entire article HERE.
Comments
DH and I were saddened--although not surprised--when we first read/saw this. So many of the well-known young actors/actresses seem to eventually turn to this sort of behavior and marketing.
Posted by: Connie @ Practicing Theology | May 12, 2008 10:40 AM
Yes, heart-breaking... and so sadly not surprising.
Posted by: Lisa Nunley | May 12, 2008 10:46 AM