Click here to visit the new home of ParentDish!

Hot on HuffPost Parents:

 

lolita effect 

Tyra Banks Launches Competition for Plus-Size Teen Models

by Tom Henderson, Posted Jan 27th 2010 1:45PM

Tyra Banks addresses unflattering bathing suit photos that made waves a few years back on her talk show. Credit: Chris Polk, Warner Brothers / AP
Tyra Banks is looking for plus-sized teenage girls for her next modeling competition. Banks ...
6 COMMENTS

The Lolita Effect: marketing sex to tweens

by Sandy Maple, Posted Apr 28th 2008 1:04PM

Thirteen years ago, University of Iowa professor Gigi Durham began research for a book about the sexualization of young girls. Immersing herself in the same world our girls live in, she sought to reveal the motive behind the marketing of sex to 8 to ...
1 COMMENTS

FollowUs

Flickr RSS

TheTalkies

More Recent Questions: