Sexualized Merchandise being Marketed to Children
In September 2008, 20 members of the Scottish Parliament proposed a motion which charges Playboy with manipulative, dangerous and exploitative practices to target sexualized merchandise at children.
Playboy was drawn into the controversy in May by a protest from Tim Jones, who pulled down a display of pencil cases and notebooks bearing the Playboy bunny logo at a local stationary store.
“I told the assistant manager who was on duty at the time that I was going to be launching a protest at the shop, and I went over to where the Playboy material was on the shelf alongside the Winnie The Pooh and Mickey Mouse material, and I started tossing it on the floor away from where people were,” Jones, 40, told the York Press at the time.
The minister also asked store patrons to sign a petition protesting “the intrusion of commercial brands such as Playboy into goods and services targeting children.”
“The long-term intention of this strategy is to encourage children to see the Playboy bunny as a friendly child-appropriate brand, preparing them for early commercial acceptance of Playboy pornographic merchandise, and constitutes a kind of ‘institutional grooming’ of children for their commercial exploitation by the powerful sex industry. This institutional grooming may be indirect but it is not accidental. It is deliberate, intentional, cynical and wicked, and must be resisted,” Jones said.
Endless Prayer:
Lord, what has our world come to? Where have we gone wrong? When did we stray so far from your ways? And how can we come back to you and the principles which you hold fast to? Protect our children, protect our youth, protect us all from the constant bombardment of those things which you despise. Guard our eyes, fill our hearts with your word, fill our minds with thoughts of you. Cleanse us from our unrighteousness. Turn us from our wickedness. That we might seek you all the days of our life and that our children might follow after us with hearts that desire you alone. This Lord is my prayer, this is my request.
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January 18th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Everyone judges even though Jesus said ‘let he who is without sin cast the first stone’. I judge, I try hard not to, it is a human thing to do. I do not agree with aiming such products an surely will not buy them for my own kids, but we were given a free will, a will to choose right or wrong. If enough people choose right, the products will not sell and the company’s who produce them will suffer their own punishment in lost sales. Tearing down a display is only opening up yourself to judging, not only by people around you but by the court as well. Expressing your displeasure with something can be done in more constructive ways. Work on it.