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The Led Zeppelin post below this with the album cover made me think of this article today in the New York Times. I started to tag it on the end of that post and realized what a bizarre segue that would be.
The model’s online name is Sparkle.
She is — at most — 9 years old.
Sparkle is one of hundreds of children being photographed by adults, part of what appears to be the latest trend in online child exploitation: Web sites for pedophiles offering explicit, sexualized images of children who are covered by bits of clothing — all in the questionable hope of allowing producers, distributors and customers to avoid child pornography charges.
I must confess. I have enjoyed looking at naked 8 and 9-year-olds. Let's see... I think I was about..... oh, 8 or 9. What the hell happens in the brains of some people to cause their arrested sexual development resulting in being turned-on by these images when they are adults?
Some of these pedophiles get their jollies from some kids much younger. Basically, as soon as a baby pops from the womb, someone would love to get their hands on it.
Do not be deceived into believing that all child pornography occurs under the radar. I personally feel that child beauty pageants are a disgusting mistreatment of children as well as providing a secure accepted environment in which pedophiles can flourish.
The link to the Newsweek web exclusive story has this photo of JonBenet Ramsey who was 6 years old at the time of her murder.
Parents who subject their children to this need counseling as much as the pedophiles. It is grotesque, perverse and obscene.
David W. Boles’ Urban Semiotic blog is a good read:
I am always amazed by parents who press their children into beauty pageants because there is an embedded perversion in wanting to help create an idealized image of a mature woman in the body of a five or six-year-old child.
Brilliant at Breakfast had this to say:
"Television networks only broadcast what people want. And the attention given to this one murder case and the heavy rotation of the child's beauty pageant footage proves that, we are, in fact, a nation of pedophiles."
The Orion opinion piece from 1999 is still quite relevant:
Children's beauty pageants make big bucks exploiting impressionable young girls.
By some estimates this is a $1 billion-a-year industry. And it's not the kids getting rich.
This is just sick!
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The NY Times has another interesting article today on the subject. The delusional rationale used by pedophiles to justify their actions is mind-boggling...
In the conversations observed by The Times, the pedophiles often discussed their personal lives. Their individual jobs were described as being a disc jockey at parties (“a high concentration of gorgeous” children, a man claiming to hold the job said); a pediatric nurse (“lots of looking but no touching”); a piano teacher (“I could tell you stories that would make you ...well... I’ll be good”); an employee at a water theme park (“bathing suits upon bathing suits!!!!!”); and a pediatrician specializing in gynecology (“No need to add anything more, I feel”).
The most frequent job mentioned, however, was schoolteacher. A number of self-described teachers shared detailed observations about children in their classes, including events they considered sexual, like a second-grade boy holding his crotch during class.
The man relating that story held up that action as an expression of sexuality; he was not dissuaded when another participant in the conversation suggested that the boy might have just needed to go to the bathroom.
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