{"id":6277,"date":"2008-05-22T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/miranda_devine_moral_backlash_over_sexing_up_of_our_children\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:10:00","slug":"miranda_devine_moral_backlash_over_sexing_up_of_our_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6277","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: Moral backlash over sexing up of our children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening tonight at the elegant Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in the heart of Paddington is an exhibition of photographs by Bill Henson, featuring naked 12 and 13 year-olds&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Such images presenting children in sexual contexts are so commonplace these days they seem almost to have lost the capacity to shock.<\/p>\n<p>The effort over many decades by various groups &#8211; artists, perverts, academics, libertarians, the media and advertising industries, respectable corporations and the porn industry &#8211; to smash taboos of previous generations and define down community standards, has successfully eroded the special protection once afforded childhood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/opinion\/moral-backlash-over-sexing-up-of-our-children\/2008\/05\/21\/1211182891875.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will consider posting comments on this article submitted first by email to Kendall\u2019s E-mail: KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening tonight at the elegant Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in the heart of Paddington is an exhibition of photographs by Bill Henson, featuring naked 12 and 13 year-olds&#8230;. Such images presenting children in sexual contexts are so commonplace these days they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6277\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,204,101,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}