Armstrong, Louise, Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics, Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Armstrong, whose book Kiss Daddy Goodnight opened a new era of open talk about pedophilia, discusses how the culture's view of offenses against children changed from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Holtzman, Linda, Media Messages: What Film, Television and Popular Music Teach Us about Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, M. E. Sharpe, 2000.

Holtzman, a former chair of the Department of Communications at Webster University, dissects the ways in which people like Li'l Bit have derived their selfimages from mass culture throughout the years.

Kincaid, James, Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting, Duke University Press, 1998.

Kincaid's premise is that Western culture, while pretending to protect children from the complexity of sex, actually makes them sexual objects by making their purity an erotic trait.

Marsh, Peter, and Peter Collett, Driving Passion: The Psychology of the Car...