Sexually provocative song videos should be criminialized until after 9pm

Richard Ford, Home Correspondent & , : {}

Music videos featuring intimately provocative images or lyrics should be criminialized until after the 9pm watershed, a Home Office commissioned inform recommends today.

Children are being shop-worn by bearing to passionate and aroused images as well as intimately divulgence lyrics on television, the inform said.

Dr Linda Papadopoulos, a psychologist, warned that song videos were sexualising girls at a immature age and enlivening them to make an effort to an diseased ideal.

The inform said: Music channels and videos opposite all genres have been found to sexualise and make objective women.

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Women are mostly shown in provocative and divulgence wardrobe and are decorated as being in a state of passionate readiness.

Males, on the alternative hand, are shown as hyper-masculine and intimately dominant.

It added: A Pussycat Dolls video, say, will meant really opposite things to a three-year-old, an eight-year-old and a 14-year-old.

The inform additionally calls for a anathema on supervision Jobcentres promotion practice in lap-dancing clubs, rub the body parlours and alternative tools of the sex industry.

It additionally recommends a ratings complement for cinema of models in magazines so that readers can discuss it if they have been airbrushed, and video diversion consoles to be sole with the parental restrictions switched on by default.

Lads magazines such as Nuts and Zoo should be limited to the over 18s, creation them titles placed at the tip of shelves and out of reach and steer of youngsters.

The inform additionally suggests environment up a website where endangered relatives can inform insane selling that sexualises immature children.

It pronounced that bearing to sex and assault at a immature age could lead to low self-esteem, melancholy with their looks and diseased passionate aspirations between immature girls, the inform said.

Boys are speedy to make an effort to a fake hyper-masculine ideal, it found.

Alan Johnson, Home Secretary, said: We know that relatives are endangered about the pressures their immature kids are underneath at a most younger age, that is because we have already committed to a series of the recommendations in this report.

Changing attitudes will take time but it is necessary if we are going to stop the sexualisation that contributes to assault opposite women and girls.