You are with me so far?

You are 100% spot-on! However, I believe the dichotomy you so eloquently portray has been further 'emphasised' by the one-child-policy in China. It's one thing to spend your childhood being treated like a 'princess' when you have siblings; another thing when you're an only child.

My own daughter is, and always will be, 'my little princess', but she grew up with an older and younger brother. By the time she was a teenager all the 'trappings' of WANTING to be treated like a 'princess' had long gone. In contrast, a lifelong friend of mine has a daughter roughly the same age as my own daughter. Raised as an only-child, she is definitely what we could refer to as a 'spoiled brat', and she's now 30 years old!

As for your comment about Pigsy's 'girls', you're correct, but I look at those clothes as being nothing other than their 'work uniform'. After all, that's what it is, right? They are 'sales-girls'. It's difficult to sell sex if you don't look sexy.