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Penny Booth: Real life realistic?

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Date:7 JUN 2011

Penny BoothThere has been comment before on this website about the sexualisation of children (see here).

I am glad to see that after the report about the fourteen year old actress who is to play Juliet in a new version of Shakespeare iconic love story that there were comments about whether society reflects the sexualisation of children or merely encourages it to provide fodder for the consumer age.

Now never one for spoiling anyone's fun and cognizant of the possibility that I am just jealous I still err on the side of thinking that it may not be a good idea that such a young girl ought to be taking all her clothes off in this new version - maybe not at fourteen. I remember (here it comes...) Zeffirelli's ‘Romeo and Juliet' and the seventeen year old Olivia Hussey (I cried buckets watching that film whilst in sixth form) and admire the 17 year old Claire Danes in ‘Romeo+Juliet' - but at least Danes was...

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