Letters to the Editor
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Well
I wouldn't exactly call a 17 yr old a child. When I was 17 and 18 I really resented the people who were a few years older than me calling me a baby at my place of employment, like oh yeah you 22-26 yr olds are so much more mature than I am, was that you puking your guts out last night after the bar closed?
I just don't really understand the use of nudity to sell couture clothing. While the naked body in itself isn't sinful or obscene, our culture is still pretty touchy about nudity so it seems that using nudes, the nudity will get more attention than the clothing at least here in the USA.
Nor can we control what goes on in someone's mind when viewing a half naked picture, so someone like me will probably just look at the clothing or the pictoral scene, while someone else might jerk off to it. I would find my brother using my Cosmo's for his um "pleasure" from time to time.
So while I wouldn't necessarily view a nude in a sexual way, someone else might and I really don't think 17 is that big a deal, if she had been 12, then yes I would agree that it's inappropiate to use a 12yr old model to sell adult clothing, but I have a problem with that already. If you are selling clothes to well heeled adult women, use models who are well past their first menses. Leave the 10-16yr olds to model tweener and junior clothing.