"How young is too young?" is a question that's been around for as long as modern Western society (it's the answer that has shifted back and forth, over time). Today, in an increasingly sexualised media world, it's arguably as pertinent as ever. However, this week, we've seen this question juxtaposed with a somewhat newer moral confound- a flipside to the concept largely based around our "daughters"... our "mothers". We now also ask, "How old is too old?" And for the next half an hour, I'm going to ask you both these questions. In the red corner, suffering the media spotlight for the debate around the commercial sexualisation of teenage girls is Russian model, Monika Jagaciak, who, at just 14 years of age, has now been barred from Australian Fashion Week, after the outrage that followed the choice of Monika as the "face" of the coming event. In the blue corner, welcome back Madonna, who has strutted back into the charts (and the history books), wearing knee-high leather boots and corsets, prompting many to scoff, "She's old enough to be my Mother!" So, let's have a look at some elements of this rather complex problem, when gender construct meets the social construct of age. What does it say about women? And, more to the point, what does it say about the male gaze who ultimately judges these young girls and older ladies?