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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)non-spontaneous ways. Personally, I don't give a rip if it is a posed picture or a candid, spontaneous shot. It bears little resemblace to real life either way. If the end result is basically to convey the message: "Hey, here's a sexy, lustable piece of meat! You men should all want to have and dominate this meat because it is so hot and you will be seen as a sex machine if you conquer her, and you frumpy women and impressionable girls should all aspire to look just like this impossibly gorgeous supermodel so that men will WANT you in a carnal way," then that is a message I do not want my daughters to see, and I do not want them dating males who have been programmed by that message.
At the same time, as for the supermodels, fine, your body, your choice. If you want to pose like that, that's your prerogative. Because there are so many cavemen guys out there who want to see your body in all sorts of suggestive poses and (barely) outfits, I'm sure you'll have a lucrative career and sell lots of whatever it is you're selling.
But the message is, undoubtedly, sex is everything, you have to be overtly suggestive and risque and implausibly attractive to be sexy, and what is on the outside is so much more important than who or what is on the inside. It's not a new message. It's actually very old, and very tired. But it's the way of the world, and if I don't like it I can just find another world.