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Young Girls Posing Provocatively


Why would parents allow their daughters to pose wearing thongs or extremely short skirts or microshorts? What could possibly be the point of such provocation if the assumed target is a legitimate modeling agent? What are these parents thinking?

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kvann, good question. I think most parents realize that teen modeling sites like in this movie are there so guys can pay a monthly fee to see them in sexy outfits. Their daughter gets paid far more than she would working for minimum wage at some fast food place, so they're OK with it.

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What are these parents thinking?


Money, of course. Maybe some parents are honestly trying to raise money to send their daughters to college, but who believes that some Mommies and Daddies aren't dipping into that college trust fund now and then?

These parents know perfectly well that dressing their pre-teen daughter in a thong will arouse males, but as long as they never actually come in physical contact with any of them, it does not matter. Since they have found a legal loophole, unless a new law is passed to prohibit such sites, they will continue.

Browse through a website like this: http://www.childsupermodels.com/.

Even if the daughter enjoyed modeling and wearing such outfits, what kind of mother or father would allow her to do that?

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I disagree that they're only thinking about money. True there are some who put money above their daughter's well-being, but there are some mothers out there that would never in a thousand years let their daughter do that kind of thing. Mine, for example. If I end up doing that sort of modeling chances are she does NOT know about it. And if my mom saw that I was making 27 000 dollars she'd DEFINITELY go down there and see what was up, most likely take me out of it because she'd be really suspicious.

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True there are some who put money above their daughter's well-being, but there are some mothers out there that would never in a thousand years let their daughter do that kind of thing.


If those mothers would never allow their daughters to pose in such pictures in the first place, then they are not the kind that we are discussing. We are not talking about girl posing in clothing for the Sears catalog or whatever. We are referring to parents who allow their daughters to pose in thongs and skimpy bikinis, lying on bearskin rugs (yes, it's been done before). Those photos are never sold to legitimate advertisers but horny old men.

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I have to disagree with this. My best friend is a 16 year old model, and her younger sister is wanting to follow in her footsteps. Their mother doesn't just think about money. She thinks about how her daughters *like* to model. Not all of young modeling is about biting your finger and winking at the camera while in mini skirts. I'm not very fond of the fact that people have turned it into that. It's illegal to pose a model in an inappropriate way without parental consent, and a lot of mothers and fathers don't give their consent, so it doesn't happen. As for those who *do* give parental consent, they normally don't realize that the photos will turn out the way they do. My best friend's younger sister did a modeling shoot and the pictures turned out much more distasteful then ever expected. Her mother had no idea they would turn out that way, and neither did my friend's sister. It wasn't all about the way she modeled as how the photographer took the pictures, alright? Now, there *are* some parents who will expose their daughters for the purpose of money. And that disgusts me, but it doesn't mean all parents do that with their children and whatnot.

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The pictures wouldn't have turned out that way if the mother had been at the photo shoot SUPERVISING and observing the type of pictures that were being taken. If she was there, upon observing the inappropriate poses/expressions, she could have objected or ended the shoot. It would also be customary to see a portfolio of the photographer's previous pictures of children BEFORE your child's shoot to see what kind of pictures he/she had previously taken.

Parents need to be more observant of what's happening at these shoots/on these sets, instead of trusting random people (no matter how famous or successful) to leave their underage children alone with. You better believe that my mom would have been on that shoot, and if they would not have allowed parents on the shoot, my mom wouldn't let me do the job. If a mother (or father) would actually leave their underage child alone with a photographer because he had a "no parents" policy at his shoots, then she obviously cares more about daughter's career and money than her daughter's safety. Even if her daughter lost a job, better safe than sorry. Period.



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Why would parents allow their daughters to pose wearing thongs or extremely short skirts or microshorts? What could possibly be the point of such provocation if the assumed target is a legitimate modeling agent? What are these parents thinking?


To begin with, parents don't always know what their kids are doing. My friend is a model for some magazine. She goes to photo shoots, I see all the photos they take of my friend and I know for a fact that there is noting unappropriate about these photos.
But when my friend comes home her mom doesn't even bother to look at the photos. She asks how the photo shoot was and that's where it ends.
If my friend starting posing nude(which she wouldn't, I'm just giving and example) her mother probably wouldn't even find out.

Another thing is that modeling is NOT the biggest problem. Go on any website such as myspace. There are million of girls dresasing unappropriately in photos, sitting or standing in unappropriate positions and so on. Parents don't even know that their kids have sites like this.

Parents don't deserve to be blamed. Teenagers play a great role in all this as well. Noone is making them act in a certain way.

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That's not true. You can sign a release to allow your child's photos to be Photoshopped (thinking airbrush, blemishes, etc) and end up with some photos that aren't technically illegal or violating the contract, but distasteful nonetheless.





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Well if you look at some of the models like Sarah Peachez, she started when she was 14 and is still modeling (started non-nude, then topless, and slowly going TRUE hardcore). But when she started when she was 14, her parents knew about her doing it (pics with her in thongs, minis, making out with her friends and the like) and they were 100% ok with it. When she started getting more and more hardcore her parents were ok with it.

There is tons of others too that are just fine with them taking ANY kind of pics of them selfs (the girl taking it or some one else). It is just if the parent is open, kind of how some parents would take there kids (any age) to fully 100% nude beaches (some in which people are openly having sex and other stuff).

So it is just how open the parents are and if they look at sex and nudity as a bad thing, a ok thing, or a simple part of like. And just to let you all know I was raised by my mom where she always told me that sex and nudity was just a normal part of life.

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I don't see the comparison with Thora Birch being naked in American Beauty. For one, it was very brief and, IMO, intregal to the plot and her characters development. Basically, it was for artistic reasons. Secondly, her parents signed a consent form and were on set. Thirdly, she was seventeen and much more capable of making an adult decision as compared to a much younger girl.

Man, some of the things people get off on creeps me out. I guess I just don't get it.

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