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Essay on JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case
I Overview of the Case
This paper begins with a shocking proposition: Our cultural obsession with the eroticization of children's bodies and our overwhelming fear of natural death leave us fascinated with the case of JonBenet Ramsey. Since the night of the crime in December of 1996, the six-year-old Colorado girl's murder, unsolved at the time of this writing, has been featured in every major news outlet across the United States. Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, People, Time, and Newsweek have joined the Globe, the Star, and the National Enquirer in carrying stories about the case, as have all three national network newscasts and the increasingly popular newsmagazines Prime Time Live, 48 Hours, and 20/20. Simply put, JonBenet Ramsey has become the most popular dead girl in America, a country that loses up to six of its children to violence every day.
The major difference between this murdered child and the others is painfully clear: Because of her participation in beauty pageants we have access to hundreds of images of JonBenet, all conforming exactly to our idea of perfect female beauty. The availability of these images, coupled with the loud reverberations of incest surrounding the murder, make this lascivious tale extremely attractive. Her face sells airtime, sells magazines, sells soap, because looking at JonBenet Ramsey satisfies two central cultural desires at once: to fantasize about the sexuality of children and believe in our own immortality.
Because of the potential for offense caused by the assertion that we want to fantasize about children's sexuality, this issue will be addressed first. The idea that there could be some national interest in the sexuality of children diametrically opposes another fundamental cultural myth, that children are asexual beings, empty innocent vessels waiting to be filled slowly with adult characteristics. According to social theorists Phillipe Ariès and Lawrence Stone...
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