The clip showed a troupe of 8- and 9-year-old Los Angeles girls in a national dance contest. But I doubt that two million people had tuned in simply to admire their arabesques. For about 48 hours it blazed across blogs and filled up in-boxes. And then, faster than you can say JonBenet Ramsey, it was gone. Outraged mommy bloggers calmed down. News outlets turned back to the BP oil spill and the Pennsylvania newlyweds who were born on the same day in the same hospital. Moral panics about pornified girls bubble up regularly these days: should the self-proclaimed role model Miley Cyrus have stripped for Vanity Fair or given a lap dance to a year-old film producer or pole-danced on an ice cream cart at the Teen Choice Awards? I might give the phenomenon a pass if it turned out that, once they were older, little girls who play-acted at sexy were more comfortable in their skins or more confident in their sexual relationships, if they asked more of their partners or enjoyed greater pleasure. But evidence is to the contrary. That ongoing confusion between desirability and desire may help explain another trend giving parents agita: the number of teenage girls — 22 percent according to a survey by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy — who have electronically sent or posted nude or seminude photos of themselves.


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Winnifred, 12, a precocious New York City girl on the cusp of adulthood, wears fish-net stockings and low-cut tops, striving to emulate her musical idol, Lady Gaga. Laura, a year-old kindergarten teacher from Alexandria, Va. Nichole, 32, of Clearwater, Fla. Perhaps they do not represent typical American youth, but they all feel the pressure to be beautiful and to be sexy. All three stories are intertwined in "Sexy Baby," an award-winning documentary about how technology and pornography are shaping the sexual identity of young girls. With Facebook, smart phones and instant access to the Internet, a generation of children is getting their sex education from online porn. It had its world premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. And it's very different porn than it used to be. It's really, really angry and not for a woman's pleasure. The directors avoid preachy judgment.
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