Rant: 12 year old strippers shop at Mervyn’s
Did pedophilia become legal while I was not looking?
Junior rack in Mervyn's lingerie section
Ok, so I shop for clothes like a guy - once a year, and I go to a place I know. Mervyn’s on Geary Blvd. has been a favorite for a long time, and I was bummed out that they’re going out of business. Until this.
Apparently, a lot changed in the past year. Yeah, I know that economy is bad and the retailers must attract all the business they can, but Junior see-through snap-away hot pink panties?? Puhleeze.
I’ll risk sounding like a blue-haired old lady here, but I’m NOT in favor of kids wearing clothes that belong to a wardrobe of a professional exotic dancer. It’s bad enough that kids are encouraged to parade in gold laminated cheap fur edged jackets screaming company logos and rhinestone sunglasses (how are we ever to teach them that “sleazy” and “hot” are not synonyms when they grow up enough to need it?). Now, they have an option to round up the outfit with some baby push-up bras & lacy panties I hope to God no one’s gonna see for at least 5-8 years…
Who buys this “molest me” clothes for their kids anyway? And why am I the one to write about this, on an adult entertainment blog, no less?
The adult business, including Lovings.com, has been bending over backwards for years to make sure that no one under the legal age slips through the cracks into adult entertainment. Newspapers are in glee every time a runaway underage prostitute gets busted. But apparently, it’ perfectly ok to dress up your daughter as one - just head out to your neighborhood department store…
See-through snap off hot pink panties from the Junior lingerie rack, size S
Yeah, some will argue that “Junior” is simply a size description. After all, what girl can resist owning a cute pair of “Hello Kitty” boy shorts (guilty as charged 
).
It seems that the manufacturers thought there might be some confusion too. Just in case you’re not getting the message, cute little labels clear things up. I had to buy these - couldn’t get a proper photo at the store… A teeny-tiny pair of hot pink see-through panties I mentioned, with the label “Age Group”. They even have handy snap-off sides. I was seriously sorry I couldn’t find any in the grown-up size.
You’re not the only one to comment about it. Some women wrote a whole book about it. Lots of Mum’s protest this s**t. It’s grotesque on so many levels.
Comment by Sarah — December 6, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
I’d love to see some models in that.. on my face
Comment by haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa — December 6, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
So to protest such items, you bought one and gave them money, thus further encouraging this? Just so you’d have a better photo for the blog?
Comment by Brad Fitzpatrick — December 7, 2008 @ 12:37 am
This is twisted. My gf has a 10 year old. There was a slumber party and I was scared to hear some of the shit they’d be talking about. These kids know too much and see to much these days. Fortunately, it wasn’t too bad.
Comment by TubeCams — December 7, 2008 @ 6:18 am
“These kids know too much and see to much these days.”
TubeCams, I disagree. I don’t think that knowledge is ever a bad thing. What I do wish would happen is *parents* taking the time to talk openly to their kids about everything, and taking the time to help them build a core set of values by talk and example. These last a lifetime, and are precious in helping to navigate all the input kids will be getting elsewhere no matter what parents do. I don’t think that keeping kids ignorant about sexuality, relationships and their future interactions with the world as long as possible is a viable solution.
Remember, teenage years are a fairly recent development in history - only a short (historically speaking) time ago, people were getting married and starting to work when 14 or 15 years old, and living in communal rooms with their parents and siblings. They were able to witness birth, death, sex and daily living of adults all around them (except for the richest). The difference is they were getting this information first hand, from their family, with good, bad and the ugly, instead of the highly skewed version fed by Paris Hilton-esque media, retail & equally ignorant peers…
Comment by Webmistress — December 7, 2008 @ 3:21 pm