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Thread ID: 16274 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-01-12
2005-01-12 02:51 | User Profile
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"When you were nine, what did you want? A Barbie doll? A train set?
These days, young boys and girls are hungry for something else: padded bras and flirting tips, video games with bikini-clad babes and music videos that feature plenty of sexual innuendo.
Sex has always sold, but now itââ¬â¢s children that are buying. Tweens, kids aged eight to 14, are a hot target for companies. And now more than ever, sex is being used to get their dollars."
[url]http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/money/sexy/index.html[/url]
2005-01-12 12:57 | User Profile
My sister told me that the 'Porn Star' shirts that were so popular a couple years ago were specifically marketed towards 10-12 year old girls. Disgusting.
2005-01-12 13:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]My sister told me that the 'Porn Star' shirts that were so popular a couple years ago were specifically marketed towards 10-12 year old girls. Disgusting.[/QUOTE]
What a sorry people we have become.
2005-01-12 21:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]My sister told me that the 'Porn Star' shirts that were so popular a couple years ago were specifically marketed towards 10-12 year old girls. Disgusting.[/QUOTE]
A couple years ago at an trade show in Orlando I ducked into one of the cheesy shops just off Disney property for a soda. The Porn Star shirts were everywhere, and the Mexican at the counter said all the kids loved 'em.
I think death sentences should be considered for the manufacturers, marketers and vendors. Then maybe come back for the Disney folks responsible for Gay Days at the park, which I heard at this and other trade shows was a really nasty affair throughout the Orlando area.
2005-01-12 23:50 | User Profile
Thong panties have been marketed in junior-miss sizes for years now. (Although I [I]never [/I] thought the day would come where I'd have anything negative to say about thong panties...)
2005-01-13 01:18 | User Profile
weisbrot,
You are most Right! Get a rope! :gunsmilie