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All of this, Gilbert writes, meant that young women “were the ultimate Millennial commodity, our bodies cheerfully co-opted and replicated as media content within the public domain. If we complained, we were vilified as prudes or scolds. This kind of sexualization was ‘empowering,’ everyone kept insisting.

Books like "Pride Puppy" prevent the premature sexualization of kids, by answering questions about queer identity in age-appropriate ways.

Kinkade’s enormous 1990s-era success, which saw his work reproduced on everything from collectible plates to La-Z-Boy loungers, dovetailed with the period’s culture war against the sexualization of art.

“I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children,” Vance tweeted in August 2022.

In the past, she has detailed the unwanted sexualization she faced as a child and now in her new memoir, "Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman," she dives further into other violations that have happened to her, revealing that in her 40s, a doctor performed unwanted vaginal rejuvenation surgery on her.