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clothing, sexualised, 8, 11–12, 42–43, 182
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (Australia), 26
Coca-Cola advertisement, 71
coercion, sexual of girls, 25–26, 60, 62, 121, 123, 134
commodification, 49, 68, 115, 122
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL), 135
competitiveness between women encouraged, 28
consent, ethic of, 85
consumer society, 91–92, 104
contraception, 95, 132, 137–138, 141, 144
‘corporate paedophilia,’ 42, 87, 164
Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of children in Australia (Rush & La Nauze), 11, 180
cosmetic surgery, 14–15, 59, 82, 159
CosmoGirl, 123
Cosmopolitan, 15
Australia, 105
UK, 104
US, 103
courage, 172–173, 176
Courier Mail, 23
Crawford, Kellie, 5–6
culture-jamming, 34
cyberspace see Internet
Daily Telegraph, 184, 189
Dangin, Pascal, 185
David Jones, 184–185
Davies, Julie-Anne, 139, 189
Davila, Valida, 114
death, sexualisation, 27
Depo Provera, 137
depression, 75, 81, 89, 139–140, 164
devaluation of women and girls, 157–158
diet industry, 82, 171, 173
dieting, 44, 57, 69, 75, 173, 175
Doidge, Norman, 131
Dolly, 21, 132, 183, 187
Donnelly, Greg, 188
donor insemination, 136
Donovan, Basil, 62
Dove ‘Real Beauty’ campaign, 185
Dove self-esteem programs, 185
Durham, M. Gigi, 17, 19–20
Dworkin, Andrea, 69, 154
Dylan, Natalie, 94
EarthLink, 120
eating disorders, 9, 14, 28, 43–45, 81, 173–174
eBay, 120
Economist, 20
empathy, 24
empowerment of women, 23, 65, 91, 104, 138, 152, 156, 158
equality
egocentrism, 91
raunch culture debate, 90
EROS, 189
Espin-the-bottle, 122
Evans, Ann, 25
Ewing, Selena, 30
exotic dancing, 125
Extreme Makeover, 9, 59
Facebook, 122
Fair and Lovely Foundation, 185
Faking It (Ewing), 30, 100–101, 105–106
Faludi, Susan, 149
Family Planning, 137
familysafemedia.com, 120
Famous Weekly, 22
Farley, Melissa, 31
fashion industry, 156, 171
adult styled clothes for girls, 78, 80, 83
advertising, 101–102, 106
fashion consciousness, 60, 75
glossy magazines, 99
pornified trends, 159
stripper-chic apparel, 124
very young models, 83
fatherhood, 168
FDA (US Food and Drug Administration), 135
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 70–71
feminism
anti-objectification, 153, 156
anti-pornography, 152, 154–155
anti-prostitution, 152
body image issue, 69
continuing inequalities, 2
criticism of objectification, 68
empowerment of women, 158
feminists in 1960s & 1970s, 112, 153, 156, 158
liberal, 152
‘new,’ 23
new options in 1960s, 1–2
‘pro-sex,’ 90
Second Wave, 154
sex-positive, 150, 152
sexual harassment issue, 72
silencing of feminists, 149
see also Women’s Liberation Movement
Feminist Movement, 149, 153, 156
fertility awareness methods, 138
Fisher-Price smart toys, 16
Flickr, 122
Flood, Michael, 21
food
junk, 3
see also eating disorders
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (USA), 135
Forscutt, Krystal, 14
Forum, 150–151
fragmented consciousness, 46
Francis, Joe, 121–122
Fraser, Richard, 27
free speech, 154
Freedom Paradox, The (C. Hamilton), 95
French, Marilyn, 149
Freud, Sigmund, 77–78
Friedan, Betty, 70–71
Fuelzone, 189
Gale, Julie, 7, 20, 29, 31–32, 181
games (videogames)
sexualised violence, 27
simulated rape, 27, 121
violence, 120–121
games, sexualised, 8, 27, 186
Gardasil, 132–135, 143
gender identity, 78
gender roles, 83, 90
gender stereotypes, 80, 82, 125
Gill, Rosalind, 115, 156
Girl.com.au, 16–17
Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls (Brown), 70
Girlfriend, 13, 106, 183, 187
girls
advocacy for, 34
age at first sex, 134
agency, 114–115, 165
bad girls, 92–95
exposure to pornography, 21, 23, 63
exposure to sexualised materials, 8, 41–44, 55–56, 60–61
false expectations, 158–159
groomed by boys, 62
‘imaginary licentiousness,’ 119
less support from older relatives, 167–168
medicalisation, 132–144
objectification, 7–9, 60–62, 64, 110–116, 123, 131
psychological development, 47, 57
resilience, 33
respect for, 32
self-hatred, 8–9, 28, 172
‘service stations for boys,’ 21
‘servicing boys,’ 21, 123, 132
sexual experiences, 21, 61–63
sexual knowledge, 22
silencing of real self, 159
underwear, 11–12, 42–43, 78, 182
Girls Gone Mild (Shalit), 22
Girls Gone Wild (video), 22–23, 121
girls’ magazines, 8, 22, 43, 169, 183
‘girls with balls,’ 90
Glaser, Bill, 48–49
gold pills, 92
‘Goodbye to all that’ (Morgan), 153
Google, 120
Gordon, Amanda, 44–45, 47
Gough, Deborah, 180
Grand Theft Auto IV, 121
Greenfield, Susan, 57
Greer, Germaine, 22
Griffin, Susan, 159
grooming of girls by boys, 63
Guardian, The, 12, 15, 158–159
Hamilton, Clive, 21, 30, 185
Hamilton, Maggie, 30
Handsley, Elizabeth, 50
Harper’s Bazaar, 27, 71
Hefner, Hugh, 11
Henson, Bill, 18, 30, 109–116
Herald Sun, The, 184
Hi-5, 5–6
High School Musical Two, 16
Higonnet, Anne, 113
Hilton, Paris, 92–93
Holeproof, 182
homemaking, post-war promotion, 1
hormone replacement therapy (HRT), 140
‘ho’s,’ 61, 122
How to Make Love like a Porn Star (Jameson), 123
How to Stay out of the Gynecologist’s Office (LA Feminist Women’s Health Center), 137
Hubbard, Elbert, 190
human papillomavirus (HPV), 135, 140, 143
Hunter, John, 88
hypersexualisation, 30–31
If Not Dieting, Then What? (Kausman), 173
Ikeda, Joanne, 141
imagination, decline, 3–4, 56
Implanon, 137
in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), 136
&nbs
p; India Today, 15
Indigenous children
child abuse, 155
sexual assault against, 25
individualism, 91, 104
Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, The (Jeffreys), 155
International Labour Organisation, 18
International Women’s Day, 27
Internet
advice columns, 124
bullying, 9
cyber life, 131
pornography, 120, 122, 125, 131, 158, 165, 187–188
social networking sites, 122
intimacy, 78, 88, 93, 95, 120, 125, 138
IUD (intrauterine device), 137
Jackie O, 14
‘jailbait,’ 113
Jameson, Jenna, 61, 123
Ja’mie (Summer Heights High), 93
Jay Jay’s ‘Little Losers’ T-shirts, 183
Jeffreys, Sheila, 155
Jureidini, Jon, 140
Kausman, Rick, 173
Keller, Helen, 33
Kerr, Miranda, 12
Kids Free 2B Kids (KF2BK), 31, 169, 180–182, 184–186, 188, 190
Klein, Renate, 31, 150
Kristof, Nicholas, 20
La Nauze, Andrea, 11, 29
Landesman, Peter, 20
lap dancing, 123–124, 157
Leigh, Leigh, 23
lesbianism, faux, 63
‘Let’s F*CK’ game, 186
Levêque, Sandrine, 158
Levy, Ariel, 23, 119
liberal capitalism, 92
libertarianism, 76, 85, 95
Lilley, Chris, 93
Lindstrom, Martin, 58
Ling, Lisa, 20
‘Little Children are Sacred’ report (NT government), 155
‘Live Young Girls—Tender Teenage Twat,’ 186
‘locus of control,’ 90
Lolita, 19–20, 113
Lolita (Nabokov), 109, 113
Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualisation of Young Girls and What We Can Do about It, The (Durham), 17, 19
Loula (shoe company), 27
love, 88
Love Sex Magic (music clip), 13
Lumby, Catharine, 152
Luxemburg, Rosa, 92
Lybrel, 137
Lynx/Axe advertising, 185
Machoian, Lisa, 58
MacKinnon, Catharine, 154
make-over shows, 9–10
make-up for young girls, 42
male gaze, 6
Malle, Louis, 113
marketing
aimed at children, 42
attacking self-image, 165
cigarettes, 91
liberation, 91
and post-modernism, 95
as seduction, 65
sexy clothes to children, 80
to teenagers, 166
to tweens, 55, 75
women as homemakers, 1
see also advertising
Marr, David, 110
Martin, Courtney E., 8–9
masculinist fantasy, 114, 160
‘Masturbation Session,’ 186
McCain, John, 92
McDonald, Donald, 189
McDonalds, 188
McKee, Alan, 152
McLellan, Betty, 31
McMullen, Linda M., 140
Mean Girls, 93
media
images of women, 67–73, 100–106, 119–126
‘third parent,’ 166
see also advertising;
marketing
Media Awareness Network, 126
media literacy, 82, 125
MediaWatch (USA), 126
medicalisation of girls, 132–144
Men Who Control Women’s Health (Scully), 137
men’s magazines, 5–6
Menzies Art Brands, 113
Merck & Co, 135
Meyer, Stephenie, 10
Microsoft, 120
mifepristone, 138
minipill, 137
MissBimbo.com, 122
Mobil, 184, 188
mobile phones
distribution of sexualised images, 55, 62, 158
downloading porn, 26
‘sexting,’ 13
wallpapers, 183
models
larger sized, 106
sexy, 106
underage, 30
very young, 83
monogamy, 93
Monthly, The, 111
Moonee Valley Races advertisement, 71
‘moral panic,’ 109–112, 114–116, 181
morality, consent, 85
Morgan, Robin, 153–154
morning-after pill, 138
Moschetti, Carole, 152
Munster, Anna, 111
murder, sexualised, 27
music
misogynist, 122
racist, 122
sexualised, 8, 122
music video clips, sexualised, 13
My Beautiful Mommy (Salzhauer), 16
My Kind of People, 7
MySpace, 122
Nabokov, Vladimir, 109
naked
art and pornography debate, 18
girls sending topless photos, 55
for a good cause, 12
images of women in offices, 30
photos distributed, 63
photos ‘sexted,’ 13, 62
Namda/Windsor, 189
narcissism, 91–92, 94
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (USA), 13
National Health and Medical Research Council, 43
National Youth Cultures of Eating Study, 14
neoliberal consumerism, 144
Netflix, 120
New York Times Magazine, 20
New Yorker, The, 186
Newman, Louise, 30
Nicholson, Alastair, 190
Ninth Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (2003), 23
NSW Institute of Psychiatry, 49
Obama, Barack, 92–93, 125–126
Obama, Michelle, 93
objectification
in advertising, 67–73, 182
of girls, 7–9, 60–62, 64, 110–116, 123, 131
of women, 3, 23, 33, 64, 68
women’s magazines, 102–103
objectification effects
body dissatisfaction, 8, 43
depression, 8
eating disorders, 8, 43
impaired cognitive performance, 8
loss of confidence, 60
low self esteem, 8, 61, 81–82
need for analysis, 80
self-hatred, 9
self-objectification, 43, 45–46
sexual assault, 63–64
sexualisation, 81
shame, 112–113
O’Dea, Jennifer, 141
O’Farrell, Barry, 188
Office of the Children’s Guardian (NSW), 184
Office of Women’s Policy (Victoria), 72
3OH!3, 33
Orbach, Susie, 142
Our Bodies Ourselves (Boston Women’s Health Collective), 137
Paediatric and Child Health Division, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 49
paedophilia
‘corporate paedophilia,’ 42, 87, 164
paedophiles, 83, 87
paedophilic sexual aesthetic, 111
paedophilic sexual economy, 113
parents
control of children’s media access, 168
fears for daughters, 163–164
limited control of influences, 52, 169
naive about uses of technology, 65
positive role models, 52
Paul, Pamela, 6, 21
peer pressure, 57, 63, 89, 134
performance culture, 62–64
periods, 137
Perkin, Corrie, 110
Perle, Liz, 21
‘Personal is Political,’ 149
Philadelphia Magazine, 17
Phillip Morris, 91
photography, art and pornography debate, 109–
116
photos
naked or explicit, distributed, 13, 55, 62
used as bribery, 63
pill, contraceptive, 138, 140, 150
pin-ups, 67–69, 71
Pink, 71
Playboy
bunnies, 32
products, 10–11, 183
Playboy magazine, 103
Playschool, 16
pole dancing, 123, 157
Pope, Alexandra, 138
popular culture, sexualised, 41–42, 100, 102, 156
Porn Report (McKee, Albury & Lumby), 152
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families (Paul), 6
pornographic film industry, 19
forced smiles, 24
pornographic films
Girls Gone Wild, 22–23, 121
scripts, 23
pornography
children’s use, 125
downloads, 26, 120
implicated in child sexual abuse, 155
Internet, 120, 122, 125, 131, 158, 165, 188
objectification of women, 64
pretence of enjoyment, 156–157
sex-positive views, 94, 150, 152
use by girls, 63
see also child pornography
pornography magazines
availability, 7, 20, 186–189
Category 1, 187–188
Category 2, 189
classification system, 189
featuring ‘teens,’ 187–189
images of girls, 20–21
refused classification (RC), 189
as sex education, 21
withdrawn from stores, 184
pornography websites
cartoon characters, 7
defloration of girls, 7
offer to Susan Boyle, 6
‘Portrayal of Women in Outdoor Advertising’ (Office of Women’s Policy), 72
post-modernism, 4, 93–95
post traumatic stress, 63
pre-schoolers, 55, 60
precautionary principle, 50
pregnancy
prenatal testing, 136
unintended, 133–134
‘Premature Ejaculation’ billboard, 180
Pretty Baby (Malle), 113–114
prostaglandin, 138–139
prostitution
‘baby beauties,’ 20
child, 20, 48, 79
glamorising by media, 119–126
marketed to girls, 61
pimps/pimping, 20, 61, 119, 123, 125–126
pretence of enjoyment, 157
as role model, 31
see also sex industry
psychological development of girls, 47, 57
pubic hair, 16
public policy
double standard, 73
outdoor advertising, 71–72
Pussycat Dolls, 19, 32, 172
R-rated merchandise, 186
racism
media’s role, 69
music, 122
radio 2Day FM, 13–14