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Does kid pageants promote child pornography ?

Does kid pageants promote child pornography ?

  • No it builds good self esteem.

    Votes: 4 8.0%
  • I'm not sure they look like they are having fun.

    Votes: 6 12.0%
  • Yes I can see the similarities

    Votes: 37 74.0%
  • Rizen you just wasted 10 mins of my time, nothing is wrong with pageants.

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Total voters
    50
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Lets be real! There are child molesters that are excited and enticed to seek out victims after watching these pageants. Dressing and making these very young girls look like sexually mature young women is blatant encouragement for imapproprate, erotic, suggestive behavior in her teens'.
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IMO, I find it sick! Seriously..a 5 year old wearing dark heavy make up, wearing clothes that look like they work on street corners?! What in the world is cute and adorable about all that? How could anyone dress a child up like that?? What happen to a child's natural beauty...inside and out? They are displayed like they are a doll collection and ordered to be perfect?! I feel so bad for the kids dragged through this. They are taught that you have to be perfect physically and look like a plastic Barbie or you are ugly. Why?

I don't understand why pageants think this is acceptable. I would rather see a pageant where the kids are dressed as kids and look like kids doing child things...not mini Barbie doll robots.
It just ain't natural and it ain't beautiful at all...it is a real shame...the cute image of a normal kid is being twisted into a false reality to further tempt pedos...all in the name of beauty? Nope...its not beautiful.
 
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Kid pageants is of the world it is what the world likes and accepts.

1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

What the world sees as normal is not normal in the eyes of GOD.

i personally think it is bad for the children because they should be learned a great deal about the inside of them and who they are in Christ and not focus or compete with others with being beautiful on the outside.

If The ALMIGHTY LORD decides to Bless me with a good wife and perhaps children, i will forbid them participating in any of this for their own (spiritual) health sake.
 
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If I had a daughter, I'd be totally against her competing in these kinds of pageants. Why? Because someone might take a picture that had her in it, (Intentionally or not,) and post it on a social networking sight such as Facebook, just because they thought it was cute, not realizing the possible 50,000 + creeps fantasizing about harming these girls for pleasure. :angry:

But then again, what does a 19 year old teen such as myself understand about parenting.
 
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Pornography is material which intentionally aims to stimulate a sexual response - this clearly holds no similarities to children pageants and I think it's way too extreme to equate pageants with promoting child pornography. However yes, pageants can sometimes lead to the sexualisation of children but this depends on the individual parent and how they decide to present their child. It's not something you can generalise. Child pornography would be something with the aim to make others have a sexual response whereas the sexualisation of children is something with the aim to attribute being 'sexy' to a child's character. Fair enough, you could argue they're just as bad as each other but in reality they are two different things.

Positive things about pageants is that they encourage self-esteem, self-discipline and the use of social skills.
 
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Fair enough, you could argue they're just as bad as each other but in reality they are two different things.

Very great points shared Emiliana.

In the original post photos/link was included but I removed them. They were in swim wear and images of heavily makeup toddlers. The images and pageants I've seen have sexualized these children, and that's why I was asking if one can promote ( not equal to) the other. I see children being told to prance around and act older than they are, and to me it looks weird. Without the makeup and sexy poses they are winners.
 
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Children when born are pure innocence. These pageants take that innocence away from them. No toddler or older child should ever
be put in make-up, false teeth, spray on tans, wigs and sexy clothing. I've seen little tiny children that look like 20 something women
and it's wrong. Why do that to a little one, why not appreciate who they are just as they are the way the Lord created them. One thing
I love is the gaps where little kids are missing teeth from them falling out... in the pageant industry that kind of smile is frowned upon
and these kids are made to wear false teeth to hide what is a wonderful, beautiful, precious smile. Kids grow up fast as it is so why not
let them be kids while they are kids instead of dressing them up as tiny little adult women.
 
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Another problem is the psychological damage done to young women, who grow up from a young age thinking that appearance is important, which contributes to a range of mental health issues and eating disorders. The belief that appearance matters, is really affecting young people's mental health, and I think that is the bigger problem with beauty pageants. Supposedly they increase self-esteem, but it can have the opposite effect. Another issue is adults dressing like children, but perhaps that can be another topic.
 
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I'm trying not to laugh right now. I see where you are coming from, but sorry. No. All the similarities that I see is that they both start with "P". :crazy:
 
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Child modeling throws children far too early into the insanity of the adult world. It is not for the child that this happoens because children are happy and content to be children. They have the whole world to explore and should have the adults in this world to protect them and guide them.

This madness is for the parents to live out their fantasies through their children and often push them to be their parents version of perfection. They learn how to supplement themselves with cosmetics and augmentations before they even know who they are. This idea that they aren't good enough unless they are attractive to the standards of the fashion industry is very destructive to a brain, not yet fully formed.

As far as Child pornography is concerned, it is the next step in degradation for those who would do the same to kids because in their minds they are sexually attracted to children. They need no dirty book or child beauty pageant to envision them having sex with any child. I don't see any reason to think that anything other than the imagination of those who see children as sexual attractive is any is responsible for the desire to see magazines depicting them that way.

That being said, those that would place their children in any way to public scrutiny have no interest in that child's well being. They want their 15 minutes of fame cut out of their own child's pound of flesh.
 
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I'm not sure about "pornography" exaclty, but I do see things like this as being cares of the world and not something that Christians should put their children through. Nothing Godly about it.

I couldn't vote.
 
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