Sexualizing the young: the 'Single Ladies' little girls dancing controversy

These girls are seven years old. They are wearing small bikinis, socks made to look like dominatrix boots, netted elbow-length gloves, and are shaking their bodies in mimicry of sex moves. They are seven years old. This is insane.

It was for the World of Dance Competition in Pomona, California and there's no doubt they are good dancers. There's also no doubt that getting dressed up and made up and danced up like hookers is atrocious. It is child pornography. When the video hit the news stream 12 hours ago prior to going to work, I flagged it immediately and took a screen shot, getting the piece ready for when I came home tonight to publish. Since then, the YouTube video has gotten 2 million hits. That is creepily disturbing.

This is worse than bad. The first issue with this is the fact that we are sexualizing the young, and that is something to which Jesus takes huge issue. He thought highly of children--

"And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, "Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Mark 10:13-14) He thought so highly of children that "He said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble." (Luke 17:1-2)

The second issue is that He thinks highly of sex, but within adult, two-gender marriages only. He discusses the importance of marriage and having godly offspring in Malachi 2:13-14. To desecrate a little one by perverting them through sex for a dancing award is definitely not Godly.

The main issue is the morality slide. Every time a benchmark line is crossed, non-believers say that there can be no absolute morality, but that the downward slide will certainly stop before it gets too bad. Right?

Wrong. Man's craven and fallen state means that he is led by satan and satan lives to destroy. His perverted depth knows no bottom. We will slide further and further down until ... Well, take the bikini for an example.

When the bikini was invented in 1946 it was named after Bikini Atoll, a Pacific Island which was the site of nuclear tests by the US. The bikini was said to be as explosive as a nuclear device. Even over a decade later, by 1960, the bikini was still considered too risque for mainstream wear, as described in the hit song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini." It told the story of a shy girl wearing a revealing polka dot bikini bathing suit at the beach, who in the first verse is too afraid to leave the locker where she has changed into the aforementioned swimwear; in the second, she has made it to the beach but sits on the sand wrapped in a blanket; and in the closing verse, she has finally gone into the ocean, but is too afraid to come out, and stays immersed in the water – despite the fact that she's "turning blue", to quote the song's lyrics – to hide herself from view."

It was only thirty years after the shy gal wearing the bikini wouldn't come out of the water that a young woman flashed her thong to a President. A thong is a garment worn as either underwear or a bathing suit where the back consists only of an elastic string. So over time we've gone from this:

to this:


to this:

tho this:

It doesn't look like anything is halting the slide yet, do you? Aw, but that is adults, you say, I thought you were talking about children. Well, I don't see anything stopping the morality slide in using and abusing and sexualizing children, do you? We are promoting them in ever sexual ways. Immorality in adults means we are teaching immorality to children.

I wrote about it in 2009 here, regarding "Toddlers and Tiaras" television show, a behind-the-scenes look at child beauty pageants. Can you imagine, that in this day and age, we have NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy love Association. Wikipedia explains it here but it's in actuality an organized front for criminal and sexual exploitation of children. We have Sex tourism as a very lucrative industry that spans the globe. In 1998, the International Labour Organization reported its calculations that 2-14% of the gross domestic product of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, and Thailand derives from sex tourism. And those statistics are ten years old. Lest you think that sex trafficking is a Third World problem only, in the United States, new research indicates that the sex-trafficking problem is more widespread and more severe than previously thought. It is estimated that 100,000 and 300,000 American children are trafficked within the U.S. each year.

The last thing this country needs are seven year old children dressed as dominatrices, prancing on stage to sex moves against lyrics that spew --

Cuz if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don’t be mad once you see that he want it
If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it
I got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips
hold me tighter than my Dereon jeans
acting up, drink in my cup
I couldn't care less what you think
I need no permission, did I mention
Don't pay him any attention
Cuz you had your turn

Sex trafficking comes in all shades, and the world should be ashamed at exploiting children. They are a gift from God! Children glorify God! For such as these is the kingdom of heaven made!!!!!!!!!

Unless the world clings to the absolute morality of the bible, the downward slide will result in dancing child porn and 2 million hits. It will not stop there. Where it will fall from here I shudder to think. O, Jesus come soon, save the children!

Comments

  1. Thanks for the article. We need more people, especially Christians, speaking out on this topic.

    I came across your site while doing a some research on the web for site content on this topic. We are trying to work more of this into our website.

    My wife has a dance studio and we are challenged in our marketing. We do not allow this type of choreography, clothing or lyrics but we also need to promote the idea that dance is fun, exciting and a beneficial discipline. Thanks again for your work on putting this site together.

    Chris Lake
    Woodstock, ON, Canada

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  2. Hi Chris,

    Thank you for your encouragement. It gets discouraging when I see children used this way -or in any un-Godly way. You are to be commended for your stance on child-appropriate costumes, choreography, and lyrics in your dance studio. Thank you for letting me know that there are strong Christians in the world who buck the torrent and stand like a rock against the slide!!! I wish you much success, and I'm grateful knowing that somewhere out there are children who dance like children- and have fun doing it

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  3. Elizabeth,
    I'm really stunned to the core about the things I am reading these days, like this story, the one about the junior high students I posted on my blog, the one about the grandmother and her grandson, the bikini made for a 7 year old that had "falsies" (for lack of a better term, LOL) built into it, the high school guys who were basically stripping ala chippendale style at their school, and on and on and on.....Is it me, or are you, too, seeing a drastic downturn with regard to our young people's morals? And did you see the Miley Cyrus video? Where is Billie Ray Cyrus? Is he crazy? If you haven't seen it, you should go to you tube and look up her latest single "Can't Be Tamed". It's demon inspired of that there is no doubt.

    I can honestly say that I have no love for this life anymore. Maranatha, Lord Jesus.

    Kim

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  4. Hi Kim,

    I hate what I am reading. I saw those things on your blog and in the news. I put together my prophecy newsletter and my blog covering one eye and looking askance, the things are so horrendous these days and I hate reading them. There have been numerous killings and rampages at Chinese primary schools lately, so many that the Chinese authorities are looking into mental health issues more closely.
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gbb3SvwJW0F1Te35LxNwJDk2UBnQD9FMMQN02

    Friday the kids who earned it at school were treated to a water slide. They came to school in bathing suits with clothes over it. When it was time to go outside they doffed and dropped their outer clothes and kicked off their shoes and socks and ran pell mell outside. When I returned to the classroom for getting them to where they needed to go, I was stunned. I looked over the rows of desks and beside each desk was a little pile of clothes. Shoes over-turned and laying on the ground. It looked for all the world like the rapture had happened, and tears came to my eyes. I pray for the rapture so children will be SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!

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  5. I know. Sick, sick, sick. What our world has degraded to, specially our country. I can see why the Jihadists wanna blow-U.S.-up so bad. Shiria law ain't so bad after all if it conforms the masses to dress like human beings. I can definitely see we're in the End Times --- I wrote two blogs about Heaven (they're in pretty good taste considering): closenmyeyes -and- sexponential. I hope to meet you thar. God bless you.

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