The oversexualization of children

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I just want to ask anybody who reads this thread: Are little boys being sexualized, too?

I have seen boxers for little boys and toddlers, men looking clothes for little boys and nice suits for toddlers, pretend play stuff like construction, being a doctor. Is that sexulalizing them?

I don't think the boxers/boxer brief underwear for little boys is sexualizing them. My youngest doesn't like the feel of tighty-whities (no matter what super hero is printed on them). Some guys just know what they'd rather wear early on, I guess. And really having the choice between the three basic men's styles of undies for little guys makes sense. Having suits and nice looking dress clothes or career dress up clothes (as long as the career isn't Chippendale Dancer) isn't bad.

If I was seeing thongs and suggestive sayings on little boy's undies and clothes that would be different.

Underwear, with boys is a sensory issue thing to some degree and a locker room "coolness" issue when the get a bit older. Some of them probably emulate older brothers or dad. For whatever reasons, male underwear (in the U.S) is not as sexualized as female underwear. (This maybe different in other countries/cultures, (maybe in European countries where "banana hammocks" are more common than in the U.S))

Seeing little boys as Chippendales dancers would be just as bad as little girls in lingerie (even though boys can get away with baring their chests, as I've made my point over and over again).

I do not think anyone is disagreeing with you. It is whether the problems are the same in current society. I do not think parents of little boys have the same problems parents of little girls have when it comes to clothes. I don't think anyone is saying it should be that way for boys, too. I think it is the opposite and that people are saying parents of girls should have it as easy (in this respect0 as parents of boys.

When I go shopping for my son, I don't even have to think about it. All I have to decide is what is cute and what is not ugly. If I bought clothes for a little girl, it would be way more complicated. It would be nice for the people who shop for little girls for it to be the same non-issue as it is for me to shop for my son. I think that is what people are saying.

I have a boy and a girl, and I've never seen a piece of boy clothing that I objected to on the grounds that it was too sexual.
With my daughter, on the other hand, I have been having issues since toddlerhood. About one quarter to one half of the clothing in the little girls' department is objectionable to me (mini skirts, spandex, sparkle on the butt, etc.). The "tween" stores like Justice are even worse. Their clothing looks like it's for tiny, glittery prostitutes.

Never heard of that store you just mentioned.

On an unrelated tangent, I wonder if this means little kids are doing crack as well; if so, that is a HUGE warning sign.