Inappropriate!

[Wispy68]

About three times now, I've noticed parents call their baby/child, 'sexy'. What the hell is all that about? Is it now an acceptable term to use for a child? I hope not.

[vittoria]

I have not heard it myself but I, too, hope it is not becoming common usage.

[coggles]

Hello Nicola Jane, both my daughters (who are 1 & 4 years old) have been called 'sexy' by males and females, and I was most offended by it but didn't comment. We have never dressed our children in the 'mini-adult' clothes that, unfortunately, seem to be everywhere. I agree with you and think it is a very strange way to describe a child as sexy.

[Janetex]

Certainly not acceptable to me, either.

[Toffee]

I've not heard of it either but I'd have certainly kept my own children away from anybody using such terminology

[brawburd]

Completely unacceptable.

[tartanwiz]

That is a disgusting description. How anyone could have originated it is bad enough, but how other people have copied it and thought it trendy or fashionable is just not on. Meanings of words often change or become devalued through slang use, but 'sexy' to describe a child is certainly not acceptable.

[jenstar]

I suppose the term is used so much for inanimate objects now that people just use it to mean "good-looking", "attractive" or just "not excessively ugly" without thinking about it.

[Wispy68]

thank you for all of your replies. Now I know I'm not the only one who thinks it's odd!!

[Wispy68]

P.S. jenstar, you're right there. I did hear someone describe a car as 'sexy' the other day. Hmm..a 'sexually attractive' car? I don't think so!!

[LeedsRhinos]

Cars are nothing, a director at the company I work for who makes fridges called a competitors fridge "sexy"!

[Wispy68]

Saaaaaaaaaad!!!!

[Badriyah]

I think using that term is totally unacceptable for a child or baby.

[enigma]

I think that it is disgusting to hear young children being referred to as sexy and completely inappropriate. What I find worse though is actually having seen children's clothes in some stores emblazoned with such words as sexy and parents buying them for babies/toddlers ! It's just encouraging this seemingly new sick trend - one which I hope doesn't catch on.