Sexualization of School-Aged Girls Harms Women of All Ages, Expert Says
By Hollie McKay -Published October 25, 2010 – FoxNews.com
What is it with photo shoots about sexy schoolgirls?
“Glee” stars Dianna Agron and Lea Michele got down and dirty for a GQ magazine spread released last week, set in high school, sucking lollipops, with their legs wide open.
Earlier this year supermodel Miranda Kerr posed topless in school girl clothes in French fashion magazine “Numero.”
In 2001, “Lolita” star Dominque Swain posed naked in a classroom in a campaign for animal rights activists PETA.
And in 1999, Britney Spears burst onto the scene donning pig tails and a sexy school uniform in the video for “(Hit Me) Baby One More Time,” and appeared in a bra and panties on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Experts tell Pop Tarts that these instances of young women posing suggestively as school girls impact all women by promoting the ideal that the younger the woman, the more appealing she is.
“Although the actresses [in the 'Glee' shoot] are adults, they are dressed as schoolgirls. This promotes and drives the male obsession and desire for younger and younger women,” explained relationship expert Patrick Wanis, PhD. “The GQ ‘Glee’ photo shoot also sends the message to women that if you want to be attractive and appealing to men, then you need to be really young – a teenager – and sexual.”