A mature woman recently linked to Gidget, a hedonistic show of the 1960s, and opined that it showed the sexual grooming of children for sexual abuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQkAVJdj7g&t=839s

In my opinion, the core problem of Gidget is not that it encourages the sexual abuse of prepubescent children. (It might encourage improper sexual relationships between mature men and immature teenaged girls -- I have not watched enough to comment on that.) The core problem of Gidget is that it is an excessively optimistic, early-1960s vision of how much fun the Sexual Revolution would be if only people were all pretty and rich.

(The Sexual Revolution was undermining monogamy by encouraging extramarital fornication. One key tactic of the Sexual Revolution was the idea that the "age of consent" justified fornication. Traditionally, "age of consent" only meant "old enough to marry a single socially appropriate man" not "old enough to fornicate with multiple men of one's choosing." The problem is that when the Sexual Revolution handed all women the power of extramarital promiscuity, it intensified competition between women.)

In fact, in the real world, the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s was attended by venereal diseases, increased sexual violence, decreased reproduction, and a host of social problems. But the people who were making Gidget did not foresee the chaos that would soon become evident. But Gidget is not scary to modern mature women because it is about child sex abuse. Gidget is scary to mature women because it shows that a very young post-pubescent girl is a sexual competitor to mature pre-menopausal ladies. Sally Fields, the star of the show, was apparently 19 years old when she made the show. The real problem is not that she had a baby face that would somehow encourage child sex abuse. The real problem is not whether her character was 19 years old or some age younger than that. The problem is that even a 19-year-old girl is really quite immature, foolish, and childish -- but Gidget shows that such a foolish female can compete in the sexual marketplace.

A pre-menopausal woman who is X years old can say to herself, "Of course I am smart and wise and mature -- of course I can be trusted with the power of extramarital fornication -- but that little girl Gidget -- she is a tiny child, she is pre-pubescent, she must not be sexual competition for me!" Now perhaps a woman of X years is truly wise and mature and trustworthy -- or perhaps not -- or perhaps it varies from woman to woman. But regardless of wisdom levels, the Sexual Revolution pressured all women to act sluttier in order to compete for high-quality men.