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"A society that values
artefacts more highly than human beings has gone seriously wrong."
--"Liberty has
got to mean responsibility", Melanie Phillips Guardian Weekly,
3/21/93
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"More than anything else, I believe our
society should be hell-bent on preventing
the creation of victims. But we're not. As a society, we're more concerned
about money,
being entertained and not rocking the boat."
--Patricia Herdman, co-founder,
Coalition for the Safety of Our Daughters, 6/1/93
"Most people will never encounter hardÐcore child
pornography. Without doubt it would disgust and horrify them. The images
of small children and babies, looking helpless, being degraded and assaulted
by adults are beyond the wildest imagination. Child pornography is easily
condemned. Yet we are now seeing daily images of children being used as
sexual objects to sell products: everything from nappies, clothes and baby
foods to perfume, posters, greeting cards and records. While more advertisers
are careful to portray children as children, some have stepped over the
bounds...Society cannot claim to abhor the sexual abuse and exploitation
of children (or women) in pornography and yet allow the portrayal of children
(or women) as sexualized objects in the popular press and in advertising.
It is alarming that we are becoming used to seeing children overly made
up and posed in provocative ways."
--Pornography:
Women, Violence & Civil Liberties, Catherine Itzin, "Images
of Children in the Media", Michele Elliott, 1992
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