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Originally Posted by Rathji
They sure do catch my eye, but that's my issue not theirs.
As a dad with a daughter, I would like my daughter not to dress provocatively, especially when she hits her teens, because I know how guys are, but that a battle I will likely lose more than I win. That's not so much because of the modesty thing, as it is that I think the over sexualization of our youth is a big issue.
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Such an overused dramatic cliche. Today's youth in the western world are far better off than any other time in history. You only have to go back just over a hundred years to find girls being thought of as sexual objects as soon as they hit puberty (or even sooner)
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A general great shift in social and legal attitudes toward issues of sex took place in the modern era and beliefs on the appropriate age below which girls should not be permitted to engage in sexual activity drifted toward adulthood. While ages from 10 to 13 were typically regarded as acceptable ages for sexual consent in Western countries during the mid-19th century,[1] by the end of the 19th century changing attitudes towards sexuality and childhood resulted in the raising of the age of consent.[4]
Several articles written by investigative journalist William Thomas Stead in the late 19th century on the issue of child prostitution in London led to public outrage and ultimately to the raising of the age of consent to 16.
The English common law had traditionally set the age of consent within the range of 10 to 12, but in 1875 the age was raised to 13. After intense sensational media revelations about the scourge of under-age prostitution in London in the 1880s caused respectable middle-class outrage, the age of consent was raised to 16 in 1885. Early feminists of the Social Purity movement such as Josephine Butler and others, instrumental in securing the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, began to turn towards the problem of child prostitution by the end of the 1870s.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent