>>95I don't really think that the flagrant sexualization of children in the mainstream is really representative of the mainstream attitude towards pedophilia. Not just for the obvious fact that media from Hollywood is so much more liberal than the rest of America. Because you see the superficial intimations of pedophilia in so much of the United States,
especially in the Bible belt, where people watch the Superbowl (and those child cheerleaders, thereby) and they have child beauty pagents and all sorts of overtly pedophilic stuff. The Bible belt, in addition to being the most religious part of America, is the biggest consumer of regular porn and also the biggest proliferator of child porn. I don't think that's any big sercret, really, but why is that?
The point made in
>>84 I think sums it up. For the same reason that a father can lovingly, innocently caress his child or whatever and not seem like a creep, it's because it's far more established in the South than in the North that pedophilia is a bad thing, and should be chastised. When a mother bathes her child it's just a given that she doesn't think of her children in a sexual nature. When people watch children twerk on TV, it's built on the premise that people don't percieve anything inherently sexual in children.