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Did anyone one learn from this show?




mmm....padded walls....so soft...

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I learned that it had the most hypocritcal ending. During the movie, the "villian" turns out to be employed by a youth exploitation prevention agency. Then it closes with a PSA for any person whom has been exploited or knows of someone being exploited to contact a similar agency??????? Talk about a conflicting message.

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Bjcole is correct. I was expecting this to be a movie that encourages young girls to report their problems to youth exploitation prevention agencies. In the meantime it did the exact opposite.

I laugh more than I breathe.

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True but it also presents the message that ANYONE can be a predator just as anyone can be the "bad guy". I'm a teenager and I understand that I should report/avoid doing certain things but at the same time be aware that I have to be careful no matter what. Its a movie and is used for entertainment purposes as well so it keeps the audience on their toes.

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I learned that just because you mistake a teen girl as an adult doesn't make you a pervert!!

"And knowing is half the battle"

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It _is_ kind of hypocritical that lusting after a teen girl a few days before she turns 18 is viewed as a sick perversion, yet as soon as she turns 18, it's perfectly acceptable to share videos of her spreading her private parts on YouTube!

Perhaps, though, I should have said "legal" instead of "acceptable"! No parent in their right mind could find the reality of far older adult males lusting after their 18yo daughters to be at all acceptable!

Yet how do you explain the incredible popularity (and availability) of "barely legal"-themed videos and magazines?!

Have we all become a nation of perverts - albeit legal ones, especially when it's not _our_ daughter who's being revealed?!

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We learned that modeling as a teen is bad, despite the tens of thousands of dollars you can make from it and the increase in one's confidence & popularity.

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