@Scout2016
The thing is, this is how a lot of kids at dance competitions will be dressing and they copy the dance style of the day, which, unfortunately, might include twerking. I hate seeing kids dressed like this but I am aware that I am projecting an adult mindset onto it - the kids just like the clothes and think they look cool and like pop stars, the vast majority won't grasp the sexualised aspect or be aware of the risk they face from paedophiles. That's the sad part, that it's not ok for children to wear what they want, or (for younger kids more I guess) nothing, or copy dance routines, however unsavoury, because some adults make it unsafe for them.
I don't know, I don't think it's just about adult projection, or being unsafe.
The clothing is meant to be sexual, it's not random that outfits in those competitions are perceived that way. If I went to the ballet studio down the road, they outfits might show as much skin as the local competitive dance school, but you can't imagine them being worn in a sex club.
And while the kids may not get it at first, they do soon enough and start to see that kind of sexualisation of their bodies as something to be expected, or even pursued.
My niece has danced in one of those schools since she was little, with outfits that always pushed the limits of taste. Now at 15, she will try and go out with her friends wearing things like booty sorts with attached garters. And when her mom says, no, she says - well, I wore this for dance, and her mom doesn't have a lot she can say, other than to forbid it because she says so. She can hardly say that it's not a healthy attitude to present yourself as a sexual object.