In 2016, the sixth children’s car model competition, which will shock China seven years later, was launched as scheduled. At the auto show, children ages 3-16 years old are covered. Many children wear a variety of revealing underwear and learn from adults in sexually suggestive poses for people to watch. No one was around at the time, but it took seven years for it to finally enter the public eye and become a noticed phenomenon. This is because many people increasingly feel that there is something wrong with the social atmosphere, which is actually sexualizing children. And this atmosphere is subtly shaping the growth soil of child sexual abuse.

The double-sided rendering of parents’ sexualization of children and children’s self-sexualization is being carried out on the we-media communication platform. Parents sexualize children in two ways. The first is to show the drama of the mother and daughter competing for favor, shaping the mother and daughter as rivals for sexual resources, such as the daughter is really the father’s little lover in the past life. The other is to dress children into sexual adults, with contrast to attract traffic, such as more than a year old daughter also wants to be a spice girl. Project the performance of the adult world onto the child, and then show it to everyone on the Internet, and carry out ideological training again and again, so that the public feel that there is nothing wrong with sexualizing children.

At the same time, on some video platforms, “pure female high”, “pure male early”, “extreme girls” and so on emerge in endlessly. Click on any one, and there’s an 11 or 12 girl or boy swaying and dancing in sexually suggestive positions. The Internet is domesticating children into soft porn performers, with the help of algorithms, children’s self-sexualized display will be encouraged by data, more people watch, including pedophiles, child sexual abuse, and gradually become the body of the Internet to be selected, and no longer put the focus on learning, reading and personal growth.

Poisonous Internet Sex Culture / Meiling Feng / Education Futures: KIPP & Futures Project (2024-25) by Mewling Feng is licensed under a 知识共享署名CC BY 3.0