hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Sexual offences increasing among primary students
"EDUCATION chiefs are "significantly concerned" about the rising "inappropriate sexual behaviour" of primary school students in Adelaide.The offences include rape, attempted rape, unlawful sexual intercourse and indecent assault.
Education Minister Jane Lomax - Smith said data revealed a "very serious" trend, with today's students increasingly exposed to inappropriate forms of media."
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This is no doubt at least partly the result of the sexualisation of children that takes place in the media, the music industry, and the fashion industry, to name a few places.
Industry has always capitalised on the creation of need: your need to look stylish in these shoes, to feel comfortable in this couch, and trendy in this car, etc. Economic models and the public might think that 'consumers' drive the demand for goods and services rather than the producers and sellers of those goods and services, but it is in fact a two way street. Consumers demand things, but firms and industry also spend tumultuous amounts of money on sophisticated, psychology based, marketing strategies. This is the creation of demand.
Now it's pretty clear that the media, music and fashion industries are contributing to the sexualising of children at a younger and younger age by producing and marketing things like suggestive clothes and erotic music videos and performers to young people. This reflects the belief, found so often in Australian society, that society is at the service of business and not the other way around.
Framing relationships and sex purely in terms of individual satisfaction in society probably doesn't help either, as it promotes the idea that other people are always simply means to very introverted, personal ends.
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