Slut Princesses: Tricks or Treats?
As everyone knows vast amounts of America’s young women take Halloween as a chance to dress like complete whores. From slut fairies, to sexy cops to trashy historical figures- girls can not helping looking as stupid and cheap as possible on the last day of October. As embarrassing as this is- it’s expected, and not nearly as disturbing as the newest trend we’re seeing- slutty costumes for little girls. Apparently it’s so culturally accepted for women to expose themselves under the guise of Halloween that younger girls want in on the action. Lacey, short costumes with go-go boots, latex, heels, fishnets, fur, and corsets are widely available for girls and ‘tweens at Costume stores and websites. We’re lead to assume there’s a huge market for such get-ups. Look after the jump to see why Blogue feels sad for society on the whole and the next generation of American girls.
I’m no prude, but honestly, is it necessary to put eight-year-olds in this kind of gear? I have nieces about the age of the girls in these pictures, but can’t even PICTURE my sister’s reaction if they tried wearing anything like this, especially in public.
As I wrote on the blog that referred me to this post:
You prudes complain about slutty Halloween costumes every year.
Young people are the most sexually repressed people of all. Halloween costumes are precisely the result. Halloween is the only night when people of any age can liberate their natural desires.
Kevin, 8-year-olds are sexually repressed???
8 year olds don’t have sexual desires. Such desires are held by this cohort to be either terra incognita or ‘yucky’ beyond belief.
Kevin, you watch too much TV.
@kevin bracken
endowing children with sexual desires – ones which that cannot be fulfilled apart from on one night a year when order is subverted – displays a detachment from the world of children which is so profound i think you should be kept away from them.
Kevin:
You’re obviously a sick perv yourself if you are justifying seeing 8 years olds dressed up as lascivious waifs. Seriously, dude — get thee to a psychiatrist before someone (preferably named “Bubba”) gets you in a prison for child molestation.
If you can justify dressing up young girls like this with “liberating their natural desires”…sounds like that’s where we’ll be able to visit you in the not too distant future.
That is not a natural desire in this century for any 8 year old (in any civilized country). You need help.
It makes me feel kind of sad that little girls are missing out on one of their last opportunities to not be seen as sexual objects. Halloween is fun kids’ stuff and what little girl will be able to actually dress as something ridiculous/fun when it becomes a time that she needs to start competing with the other girls in being sexually attractive?
Some of these costumes are a bit much, but a couple others I don’t see the problem with. This is not a new trend. I remember my friends and myself wearing similar costumes when I was young. While its a bit inappropriate, I think its more little girls wanting to look like their idols, not older men trying to dress them up like sluts.
Tween Halloween Party in my basement.
There will be bobbin’ fer apples (babies arm holdin’ an apple that is!)
Appalling. Just appalling. Are parents really buying these for young girls to wear? If so, they should have their heads examined.
Not only are the products in appropriate, but the poses in the photos are waaaaay too suggestive. You gotta wonder what is wrong with these companies.
Where does it say that the models in these photos are 8 y.o.?
Please show me the law that states children are requred to wear these costumes for Halloween.
If the children/parents don’t want to wear these costumes, then they won’t purchase them.
Next time please try getting all worked-up about something more meaningless.
No, it’s adults that are sexually repressed. That’s why we react to this so much. Kids are just being themselves.
What we forget is that there is a difference between the reality we project onto these kids — what we see — versus what the kids are doing, what is in their own mind.
We created this fashion, the immense sexuality in our culture that kids are simply emulating. Let’s own up to it. If we don’t want to see kids doing this, ramp down the sexuality in our own culture.
Not too mention Clara – who submitted this post on BLOGUE.US – is the one describing these costumed girls as “slut princess”, “cheap whores”, and “slut farries”.
i don’t see how Clara’s interpretations qualify as society-on-the-whole’s interpretations.
No wonder why people feel bad for the children.
Actually, nevermind. That’s not what I was trying to say at all.
@Kevin Bracken. You sir, write like a pedophile. How many little girls have you personally helped with their sexual repression?
It’s not jsut the costumes that are appalling, but the positioning – the devil tail wrapped between and around the girl’s leg, the sword hanging down by the crotch, etc. If it’s done with adults, I find it okay – to sexualize children is just gross.
1. Society created a culture in which it is acceptable to sexualize children in this way. Those costumes weren’t created by kids, but FOR kids, by adults.
2. In the same way it is an adult’s choice to dress in a highly sexualized way on Halloween (or not to), it is likewise the PARENT’s responsibility to deem what is or is not appropriate for their children. When I see little girls dressed up like Paris Hilton on a bender, I don’t blame the child. I blame and judge the hell out of their parents for not discussing a more appropriate choice with their child, and perhaps, (that’s it, I’m gonna say it) engage in som actual PARENTING, rather than trying to be their child’s peer buddy.
Children are not adults, and are do not have their abilities to judge what is and is not appropriate attire. They see what they want, and they want what SOCIETY prescribes as “attractive, cool, etc.”.
If we as adults refuse to allow children to become sexualized, perceived as “sluts” by adults seeing them in skintight pleather or scanty costumes, then these costumes will eventually go off the market for lack of profit. If you don’t like ‘em, don’t perpetuate the problem by purchasing the costumes, or even patronizing the places that sell them. Make your own. There are still fabric stores with patterns out there.
Is the last costume called “Girl from Bronx”?
lETS JUST PUT ALL OF THE PRECIOUS LITTLE DARLINGS IN BURKAS(SP?) AND SEND THEM OUT TO TRICK OR TREAT.
OR….. BETTER YET, LET THE ADULTS GET A LIFE OF THEIR OWN SO THEY DON’T NEED TO HELICOPTER THEIR CHILDREN.
5th pic down is a boy in drag…
Roman Polanski? You look at Blogue?
Paging Jon Benet Ramsey…
this is so pageant child – but now it is bigger than a weird small subculture!
Fisting anyone?
OH MY GOD! WHAT SLUTTY DRESSES.
Please ppl we as society have to take some fault to it or don’t trhow the stone, is easy to say oh my god how slutty those costumes are when kids and ppl are doing it for the fun of it we as grown up ppl should not allowed it, if it is this bad. which i don’t think it is,i don’t think anything sexual in this pictures you are the one with the dirty thoughts .
You are very nasty ppl putting up copmments of this kind when is just clean fun.
Chill people their just costumes… dang!!!!
any parent that even entertains the idea of dressing little girls like this need to be investigated,come on dads would you dress your little baby girl like this!!!!!
Images like this is what fuels sexual predators. We need to protect our children’s innocence. If I new some guy was imaging my 8 year old in one of these, I’d castrate him just for safety sakes. BTW…I agree with AnnaN, I think Kevin Brecken above is a pedophile. He’s a prime example of what to keep your 8 yr olds away from!
this is why 10 year old girls are handing out bjs like we gave out fragglerock valentines. its really terrible that there are parents who condone this. the opposed may be old-fashioned, but in no accordance to age. being a 27 year old parent of a six year old girl, her father and i would not allow this. there are creeps out there! EVERYWHERE! do you not understand this? protect your children or they’ll pay the price. wake up, the world is getting scarier and more freakish everyday. id buy one of these outfits for myself…to jam my husband in, not for our daugher.
wtf. ok im a mother of 3 and i have a daughter and there is no way in flying fnck i would EVER let her wear something like this. this is really sick. this is a pedifiles dream! this is just sick nothing else to sy
arnt these pictures like borderline child pornography?? i mean wtf. its like the person said above.. images like this fuel pedifiles. i mean think about it. they cant come outside and be around kids for halloween, but whose to say while you are dressing your daughters in these skanky outfits they arnt watching them walk down the streets from behind the curtains jacking off. just something to think about.
I count 7 incidents of satanic costumes in the pictures above (counting dark colored wings which I assume represent fallen angels). Where are the old fashioned Christian symbolist complaints?
I’d say kids this age basically have 4 sources of culture: parents, friends, tv, and the internet. Kids don’t have sexual desires, but they do have the ability to conform.
I say don’t have kids, but if you do don’t be a condescending alarmist. America is difficult.
“but whose to say while you are dressing your daughters in these skanky outfits they arnt watching them walk down the streets from behind the curtains jacking off. just something to think about.”
thats a good point lindsye, that is a good thing to think about, if you fantasize about pedophiles “jacking off.”
if you are worried about kids, pay attention to what they see.
you cannot “fuel pedophilia.”
At this age? Seriously? This would never have happened in the 80′s.
When I was about 8 or 9 years old, I wanted nothing more than to wear gorgeous, form-fitting, “sexy” outfits. I was embarrassed to tell my parents because I thought it might be construed as “sexual” and therefore, “wrong”.
This is partially because my parents chose to dress me in very conservative, “age-appropriate” attire, and partially because of a culture that seems to think that kids have no awareness of sexuality whatsoever.
Once I reached my teen years, I of course went crazy with clothing rebellion: lashing out against years of stretch pants and t-shirts in favor of what I saw as much more fun, playful attire. My goal, as a child and as a teen, was never to come across as an object of sexuality for other people, but rather to own my body and have fun with it.
I say this because we seem to get caught up in the notion that kids have no concept of their bodies, their form, their gender, or their aesthetic, when in fact some are much more aware of this than people realize. No, children do not have the same developed sexual desires (or the same understanding of seduction, sensuality, and the endless accompanying complications of sex) that adults do, but that does not mean that they don’t have their own awareness of sexuality. And I do not mean “sexuality” as “showing off your body so that others are turned on”, but instead just another one of the facets of human development and identity.
No, a parent should not impose sexuality upon a child. But if a child responds to this particular aesthetic, the parents should not occupy their time teaching the children that this aesthetic will warrant unwanted sexual attention. Rather, the parent should support the child’s growing development and awareness, and encourage the child to be an individual, to be comfortable in her own skin, and to be confident- this way, the child will not grow up to only think of sexuality as existing within a binary system of all or nothing- or worse- grow up thinking that sexuality is only used for approval or attention from others- and instead will grow to discern for herself her own needs and desires.
Well, I am a parent. I agree with what’s been said here (not the sexually-inappropriate crap), and I would just like to point out: in New York City (the so-called “greatest city in the world”), the racist and violent dominicans (yes it’s in lowercase-racist bastards suck) ALL and I repeat ALL let their kids from like age 5 and up dress like little whores EVERY DAY and let their kids go to school like this EVERY DAY. Yet, nothing is said about THAT. I have 2 little girls (3 and 7), and I think that dressing your girl like a whore, or allowing it to happen, is just utter and complete bullshit. Kids sont have sexual urges- just read a biology text!
this is just too weird for me
You people are crazy.
Girls dressed in tights, skirts and t-shirts. Big deal. What’s so slutty about it?
“Is it borderline child porn?” I don’t know, do you see any sexual organs on display? Are you people nuts? What about little girls on the beach or something? Should they wear burkas? Does that fuel pedophiles too? You never know who could be on a beach!!
“Why are there demonic costumes”? Duh, because it’s HALLOWEEN, you stupid fundie nutcase.
If the kids don’t want to dress like that, obviously they won’t.
This is pathetic! Why do we even bother, it is you people that are the problem with America. It shouldn’t matter what the kids wear if parents were with there children more instead of off doing their own thing then we could have things like candy in school, the cookie monster and bert and ernie back on TV, and children would be allowed to dress up for Halloween without issues. People are having children too young and its not right, and parents are just being uptight retards. Seriously, what is wrong with you people? Candy is goof for children – it is a nice incentive NOT a bribe, be home when your child gets out of school and make them go outside instead of parking them infront of the TV or a video game/computer, the cookie monster is not bad and bert and ernie are just friends (whoever thought that controversy up is just ridiculous and has too much time on their hands) and as far as the Halloween costumes, STOP being so uptight and let the kids have fun its not going to instill sluttiness in them, they are too young (if raised properly) to understand it in the first place! Let KIDS be KIDS and get off their backs.
I would finish to any of these pics in a second! Love Halloween!! U people would be nuts to dress UR kids this way!! Also I can’t believe they make TJ for 8 year olds.
I have to agree strongly with 1 of the other persons. Last I knew, a 8yo couldnt walk into a costume store and buy a outfit with a credit card. All you parents that think some of the outfits are too sexy for young girls to wear need to complain to the parents that are buying them. The fact is.. they wouldnt be made if parents werent buying them. Also… lastly… dressing “slutty” wasnt acting slutty. Its just a costume folks.
is somebody finds something sexual in what a child wears for halloween then that somebody is not mature OBVIOUSLY
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