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Outrage over nude children exhibition


"Public pressure has forced a Sydney gallery to cancel the opening night of an exhibition featuring photographs of naked 12 and 13 yearolds just before the doors were due to open.

Hetty Johnston, founder and executive director of Bravehearts, a child sexual assault action group, today called for Mr Henson and the gallery to be prosecuted over the images.

The exhibition includes large photographic prints of topless children, one of which was included on the invitation to the opening night."

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While our prime minister and other peddlers of crowd-winning emotional reaction congratulate themselves on the vehemence of their knee-jerk response to these images, which were not intended to titillate but rather to highlight the tenderness and fragility of adolescence, let us hope they extend their logic to address the real and increasingly parasitic sexualisation of youth by our advertising industry, fashion industry, and pop music industry, which are basing entire markets around the manipulation of children as young as 8 into a premature awareness of sexuality for the sake of commercial profit.

Commercial profit is fine. Enthusiastic and strategic people should benefit from their endeavours, but not if the endeavours are parasitic and drag society down. It is only a shame that this sort of focus on an issue is usually fleeting and sensationalistic under our current political design, and that intense discussion will most likely go no further than this artist, whom the conservatives will call a pervert and the progressives will call a hero of 'free expression'.

"Doctors say the eating disorder anorexia is showing up in Australian children as young as eight.

Dr Sloane Madden, the author of the study, found more children are presenting for treatment for anorexia and many are so sick they have to be hospitalised.

"Certainly there is the feeling around the world that children are presenting younger and some of the theories that have been raised are really that children are being exposed to images of thinness, at a much, much younger age. And also some concerns about children presented with sexualised images at an age when really they're psychologically unable to understand those images"."

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Think 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.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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