Bieber's "Boyfriend" is harmful to minors

Justin Bieber released a clip from his new music video, “Boyfriend,” and it’s hot.

The teaser shows Bieber singing a line from the new hit single while staring into the camera under sexy lighting. Then, from every direction, hands descend upon the teen star and start stroking him until a fadeout. Panty dropping.

Beliebers, this is everything you could ever ask for.

But is this dangerous? Is this contributing to an uncalled for sexuality in young people? Granted, the star did just turn 18, so legally he can be as sexy as he now desires. However, his following is still largely comprised of tweeny-bopping minors.

And they cannot seem to handle their desires rationally.

A little more than a year ago, the infamous “Dirty Bieber Secrets” website was created and horrifyingly popularized. The page provided a place for all fans to post their highly detailed sexual plans for the then-underage pop star.

Posts ranged from the more innocent to the more deranged, talking about dying happy on top of Justin. Unbeliebable.

The site was taken down under the pretence that the star was underage and this kind of talk was highly inappropriate, but the damage was done. Ruins of the page lie scattered about the Internet and still show the voracious sexual appetite the younger generation is developing.

Granted, this type of site was not solely started and upheld by the tweens, but there is no doubt that they were reading this and contributing their own fantasies. The proof is in the crowds screaming his name on every website.

Exposure to this type of sexuality at such a young age can only bring about negative consequences. Suddenly, 13-year-olds are explaining foot fetishes to their friends and discussing Bieberized versions of S&M.

Inherently, this is a problem because of the loss of innocence in our younger generation, but it goes beyond that as well.

Now young people are trained to just want sex without even knowing what it truly is. They fantasize and obsess about sexual situations they cannot even comprehend. This has the potential to make sex something that is no big issue among young people.

It washes over the real issues of sex and focuses in on it being something that just happens. If teens want to engage in sex, there is no stopping them. Often times they have thought about the negative aspects at least once, but teens have also gone through some semblance of sex education.

We are now trending toward sexualizing children who do not even know the basic anatomy of genitalia yet.

Bieber might not have meant to make preteens crazed with sexual desire, but there is no denying the swoop and swag weren’t intentional marketing techniques. However, they have gone wrong and are only helping a looming problem grow.

Justin, it’s hard to say this, but you might want to cool it down — for your sake and ours.

­— sjostrow@indiana.edu