Toddler T-Shirt Outrage
Fashion house World has been accused of marketing children as "little sexual beings" and grooming them for sexual predators with a T-shirt featuring the slogan "Future Porn Star".
The T-shirt has outraged anti- child abuse campaigners Stop Demand and comes as a new American report says the rising tide of "raunch culture" is starting to affect young girls.
But World designer Francis Hooper is defending the T-shirt saying, "As a fashion designer I’m being humorous and irreverent".
Stop Demand spokewoman Denise Ritchie said the slogan was irresponsible and it was time World grew up.
She said parents should realise that a lot of "creepy" men found such images arousing.
"There are these sorts of creepy individuals in the community and they will be looking at young children wearing these T-shirts, thinking of these sorts of images."
Hooper said if people wanted to take offence he could not stop them but they should look at the T-shirts in context of the whole print line which included the slogans "Parents are Boring" and "I have Issues".
"That one is, of course, the most risque and naughty," Hooper said. "It’s an adult purchase for children."
He said the $45 T-shirts were not necessarily to be worn, but more of a joke gift an auntie would give their niece or nephew.
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