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Boys 'Pornified' From Birth

Males encouraged from birth to be sex maniacs

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 11, 2009 1:22 PM CST

(Newser) – Lyn Brown and Sharon Lamb determined in their 2006 book Packaging Girlhood that our culture conditions girls early on to behave as sexual objects. But what about boys? In their new book, the researchers take a look at the other side of the playground and find that the “stark commercialization of gender” applied just as strongly: boys are told almost from birth to desire sex as much as girls are taught to personify it, writes Marisa Meltzer for Double X.

Witness onesies printed with slogans like “Playground Pimp.” Scenes from seemingly innocent shows like Disney’s The Suite Life of Zack and Cody have steamy themes just under the surface, while cologne and deodorant marketing encourages boys to be pheremone-exuding sex maniacs. “How,” the researchers ask, “are boys expected to deal with all the messages about being out of control, having body parts that seem disconnected or out of their control, having desire that they are told is boundless?”

Boys get conditioned early.
Boys get conditioned early.   (http://www.teesed.com)
Boys get conditioned early.
Boys get conditioned early.   (http://www.teesed.com)
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cochiserocks
Nov 12, 2009 12:41 PM CST
I see your point, but still - on a bib?!
reasonator
Nov 12, 2009 3:31 AM CST
And, I see your point, too. Yeah, it's pretty tacky.
reasonator
Nov 11, 2009 11:27 AM CST
I'd thought along the same lines, Fondue. It you read it very directly and literally, it would say the baby wearing the bib would like to f*** his own mother. But, the term MILF has sort of taken on its own meaning apart from the acronym, but still. Maybe MYLF would be better.

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