In a word, Yes. (raunch culture and our daughters)

Is it damaging to teach our young girls that empowerment and freedom means to freely exploit oneself sexually? Yes. The third paragraph below truly struck me because it is so true about how many, maybe even most girls think about themselves. I will tell my daughters (who knows if they will listen) that they should only consider dating Christian men who call them beautiful or pretty before they call them hot. To be hot is not what any young girl should desire to be. But no doubt, this is what they are taught through a million ways. Melinda Tankard Reist is doing well in exposing how advertising leads our young girls into thinking this way. While I am not a big boycott person, I do appreciate the attention she is drawing to this cause.

Ultimately though, we must add to our fight against sexually explicit advertising, music, etc. the true teaching about what girls are to do.

1 Timothy 2:8-10 I desire…that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness- with good works.

Titus 2:3-5 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

clipped from www.nzherald.co.nz Is ‘raunch culture’ damaging to young girls? “Raunch culture” has set back women in Western societies more than 50 years, says a visiting Australian feminist. Melinda Tankard Reist, a founder of a group called Collective Shout, which names and shames companies using sexual images of girls, says we are raising children in a “pornographic landscape”. “[Women’s] liberation has now come to be seen as the ability to wrap your legs around a pole, or flash your breasts in public, or send a sexual image of yourself to your boyfriend so he can pass it around his mates. Girls think that empowerment lies in their ability to be hot and sexy.” “Raunch culture has taken us back. It’s an absolute tragedy. These were issues being raised by feminists in the 1950s and 60s.”