SALT LAKE CITY — Even in a mall in Utah, one of the most conservative states in the country, bodies scream for attention. On a late summer afternoon, a teenage "novelty" shop employee stands atop a...

What happens when little kids are portrayed as sophisticated seductresses? What studies suggest about the disturbing sexualization of girls.

Depicting any underage child, whether fictional or real, in a sexualized way perpetuates systemic abuse of young girls and normalizes the sexualization of minors.

“Her admirers—middle-aged men and clergymen—respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain...

In recent years, elements of the modern environment (such as television, Internet, toys and clothes) have been criticized for having an increasingly sexualized or appearance focus, which has been...