Peek-A-Boo Pole Dancing
In 2006, Tesco released its Peek-A-Book Pole Dancing kit to the general market. The kit includes a three-pieced tension pole that fits ceilings up to 8'6" tall, a dance booklet, a garter belt and play dance money.
Parents were a little upset to see this product in toy stores. Apparently, they thought their five year olds might be a little young for sex work. Tesco pulled the product from toy shelves. Now, it's being marketed to an older, "more appropriate" audience as the Peekaboo Pole Dancing Exercise Pole on sites like amazon.com. The older, "more appropriate" audience is represented by a girl who looks to be about 18 or 19 on a promotional video posted on youtube.com.
Each year, marketers attempt to sell sensual products to younger and younger girls. Marilyn Monroe was almost thirty when she achieved sex symbol status and was at he height of her career at age thirty-three. Today, our beauty symbols are as young as fifteen. Products like abercrombie's "eye candy" thongs targeting 8-14 year olds and metallic bras at Sears labeled "Girl Identity" push little girls to be sensual.
Why? Marketing giants have figured out that if they want to have cradle-to-grave customers for products like mini-skirts, cosmetics and other similar products they have to create the desire in little girls to be highly desirable to men and seek to achieve unattainable beauty from an early age.
The results? Well one of them is that 2/3rds of underweight twelve year old girls consider themselves to be fat according to a Harvard study.
Who is going to stand up for the little sisters and daughters growing up under them to stop this nonsense?
posted by Dannah @ 2:16 PM
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Hi Dannah - I'm so sorry to leave this comment on this post but it is the only way I could find to send you a note. I do hope you get this. I just wanted to say THANK YOU so much for writing "5 Little Questions". I just started reading it tonight and it is EXACTLY what I needed to take me back to where I used to be but had lost my way. The time is NOW!! Thank you!
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I had to applaud you for writing on this topic. It's appauling that pole dancing would be pushed on little girls. And to me it's just as appauling that no one is upset that it is being pushed on young adults too.
I have often wondered if child molestation isn't a greater problem in part because little girls are taught to dress more & more sensually. So many parents don't seem to realize that it is harmful to their sweet little girls.
I could go on and on but I won't. You should write a book on this topic. (Maybe you already have and I just don't know it yet.) :)
Seriously...a pole???? I am so very saddened by the things that our kids are being exposed to! Thank you for being in the trenches on so many important issues! Michele
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