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Disney: Selling Sex?

Disney has been around for what seems like forever.  Disney is often thought of as a family entertainment industry with good moral values. 

Most parents and people are comfortable with their children watching anything that is Disney because the majority of the content is free of profanity and the content is often thought ot be appropriate.

However, with the emergence of a new shows like Hannah Montana and artists like the Jonas Brothers that have older content, are things still kept clean or do they just appear that way because of the Mickey Mouse ears tagged along with them?

Using the Jonas Brothers as an example, are the purity rings and imposed christian angle only implied to blind parents to what their children are really watching?  The creators of South Park pose the question of what Disney is really selling to children and their parents, and as you'll see in the video, they believe is sex.  (Fair warning:  It's South Park...  Language/suggestive content/violence/etc...)

Do you think Disney is as pure as the driven snow, or are they guilty of selling sex to kids?

In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.