I've got to tell you, I see pictures friends post online of their young girls all the time that give me serious pause. The girls, I know for a fact, are innocent enough, but the poses and the clothes (especially the short shorts and skirts)... I can't help but think they look sexual. And then I think about how some sicko might look at them. And I am all kinds of uncomfortable. Then I feel badly, and wonder why I am looking at the pictures as provocative. The photo subjects are probably not even aware of it. But is that what matters? Is it how the image was meant or how it is perceived that counts? Where did my friends' very young children learn to pose like that, with their rears ends stuck out and their chests up (even though they have no boobs)? I have to assume it is from pictures like this cover. They try to emulate what they see without having any idea what it all means. And I think it is dangerous.
I've got to tell you, I see pictures friends post online of their young girls all the time that give me serious pause. The girls, I know for a fact, are innocent enough, but the poses and the clothes (especially the short shorts and skirts)... I can't help but think they look sexual. And then I think about how some sicko might look at them. And I am all kinds of uncomfortable. Then I feel badly, and wonder why I am looking at the pictures as provocative. The photo subjects are probably not even aware of it. But is that what matters? Is it how the image was meant or how it is perceived that counts? Where did my friends' very young children learn to pose like that, with their rears ends stuck out and their chests up (even though they have no boobs)? I have to assume it is from pictures like this cover. They try to emulate what they see without having any idea what it all means. And I think it is dangerous.