Sex for sale:
The stripping of Kate Moss

It's not avant garde...new...or innovative to sexualize children. Someone needs to tell thrill-seeker Klein that, unfortunately, it's been happening for years. Calvin Klein has desensitized America to the commercial sexualization of children and youth. The stripping of Kate Moss represents the chiseling away of our willingness to protect children from exploitation, the exploitation of innocence and vulnerability--and making it sexual. Yes, Kate Moss is of legal age...now.      But Klein and others like him admit her appeal is that she looks 14.
     We say we love our children, but we love ourselves more. We value children only as potential consumers, evidenced by the marketing tactics aimed at children, and the very use of these same children and childlike images to sell products to adults. The stripping of supermodel Kate Moss...the whole "little girl look"...the "baby doll trash"...the "Safe Sex Chic"...is totally unacceptable, especially in today's society where NO ONE is safe.
     But safety IS possible. It's funny. The very magazines that say they serve women's interests are the very ones that allow this skewed and disturbing image of women and children to thrive. The vulnerable will only be strong when America's Number One Consumer stops supporting the industries and advertising sources that promote this irresponsible and dangerous image of women and children. Both dollars AND dissent can change the way the fashion and cosmetic industries, women's magazines and entertainment world view women and children.