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In reply to the discussion: Hypersexualization [View all]

tblue37

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17. Of course it is! It is part of the image of the helpless, vulnerable childlike woman,
Reply to RC (Reply #1)
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 12:47 AM
Feb 2012

weak & submissive, ready to be rescued and daddy-dominated by a big, strong man.

Standing pigeon-toed like that is a way of signalling helplesness and Lolita-like pseudo-shyness of the sort intended to be sexually alluring. It presents the same sort of sexual signals that Britney Spears' schoolgirl plaid skirt and pigtails do in that early video of hers.

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