The unstoppable sexualisation of young girls

Online Perth Now has a report 27 September on 'Shag bands'. The first few paragraphs read:

THEY look like a symbol of childhood innocence. But these bracelets are part of an "insidious" game that sees primary school kids perform sex acts.

And it is feared the craze may soon sweep WA

Rather than a mere fashion statement, the so-called "shag bands" are linked to grades of sexual behaviour. A Facebook page about the innocuous-looking bands has already been inundated with more than 12,000 fans.

The game involves a boy or girl trying to break the rubber band off the wearer's wrist. If it snaps, the wearer has to perform the sexual favour that corresponds to the colour.

Snap an orange band and get a kiss, snap a yellow and get a hug. But snap a black, light blue or light green band, and the "prize" is something far more sinister.

Nobody who has taken even a moment to reflect on the developments in Western society over the last fifty years should be surprised that there are such things as 'shag bands' - and are worn by young girls. What may surprise are the comments that follow this story. Many scoff at the report saying that shag bands have been around for decades. What's the big deal? No one took them seriously. Anyhow, so what?

The evidence suggests that some girls, even if a minority, succumbed. One comment spoke of girls giving the boys 'blow jobs' at the back of the school bus. Indication enough of the mentality that is insidiously sown by such modern things as shag bands. The issue is the mentality that is cultivated. It is about the social atmosphere in which the seedy side of sexual behaviour is introduced to girls, giving them a nasty warped idea of what is expected of them. Where that expectation leads should not escape any one. The following typified an attitude that was either explicit or implicit in many comments.

Great stuff. Should be more of it and let the young ones enjoy their bodies in a liberated way. Stop telling them what they can and cannot do. All consenting people should be able to do whatever they want.

After Pope Benedict apologised last year for the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy he warned that it was wrong to focus only on the abusive behaviour of Catholic religious, that the problem was widespread in Western society. He was absolutely right. Media commentators, blinded by their anti-Catholic bigotry, went to town on him, saying that he 'just did not get it', meaning that he was minimising the guilt of the clergy and evading culpability.

The mountain of evidence supporting the Pope is such that the real culpability rests with those whose appalling prejudice stands in the way of action that will eliminate the chances of a father raping his daughter over a thirty year period.

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Comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com