Reg Bailey, chief executive of the Mothers' Union, who led the independent review, said parents are concerned by the increasingly sexualised culture surrounding their children.
The six-month review also calls on businesses and media to help end the drift towards the "sexualised wallpaper" that surrounds children.
Bailey has recommended that parents be provided with a single website to make it easier to complain about any programme, advert, product or service.
Age restrictions on music videos, covering up sexualised images on the front pages of magazines and newspapers and restricting outdoor adverts containing sexualised imagery where large numbers of children are likely to see them are also among the proposals.
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