{"id":541,"date":"2008-03-20T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/20\/sexualizing-infants\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T03:18:50","slug":"sexualizing-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/20\/sexualizing-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexualizing Children: Bikini Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a picture of this bikini at a children&#8217;s clothing store in L.A. It is size 12-18 months:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/00.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NEW! (May &#8217;10):<\/strong><\/span> Reagan B., Tara C., and Ma. El\u00ed C.L. told us about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1265873\/Primark-withdraws-padded-bikinis-7-year-olds.html\" target=\"_blank\">a children&#8217;s bikini for sale<\/a> at the chain Primark in the U.K. The bikini came complete with a top sufficiently padded to make girls look as though they have breasts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-23637\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/20\/sexualizing-infants\/4_62_bikini_cups_320\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23637 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/03\/4_62_bikini_cups_320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The chain quickly pulled the bikinis after a public outcry about the sexualization of children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NEW! (July &#8217;10):<\/strong><\/span> Naomi sent us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babikini.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Babi-kini<\/a>, a website that sells string bikinis for little girls. Not only is the girl on the homepage in a bikini, but she&#8217;s in a typical swimsuit-model pose, too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-24989\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/20\/sexualizing-infants\/pic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24989 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/03\/pic-500x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/03\/pic-500x356.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/03\/pic.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They sell a variety of styles, including one similar to the zebra-print one I originally posted above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I went to the &#8220;one-piece swimsuits&#8221; section, but an error message came up saying there were no items matching my search. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a picture of this bikini at a children&#8217;s clothing store in L.A. It is size 12-18 months: NEW! (May &#8217;10): Reagan B., Tara C., and Ma. El\u00ed C.L. told us about a children&#8217;s bikini for sale at the chain Primark in the U.K. The bikini came complete with a top sufficiently padded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,225,55,2099,120],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24992,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/24992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}