The whole directnic thing could be the best thing

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

so how do you feel about lightspeed?

I do not promote lightspeed sites. I do have an affiliate id from when I was running remote thumbs. Some of lightspeeds content looked young but I did not find the context that he usually presented his content in to be disturbing.

I made an earlier post on gfy today and I will use it here.

If you can dress up a 12 year old to look 18 as many modeling agencies and magazines do then you can damn well dress up a young looking 18 year old to look 18.

However, if you take that young looking 18 year old and purposely pose her and costume her to look prepubescent you have in my mind crossed way over the line of what is acceptable.

The lightspeed content that I viewed did not present a problem to me. But I don't spend a whole lot of time looking at content..........................................a nymore

[softball]

I looked online but could not find any pictures. But I saw the French Vogue children's supplement this year and it was chocked full of suggestive images of 12 year old girls with their blouses open, legs open and tons of stuff that could get a pornographer in serious trouble. I guess it is not as much of a problem for the French.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

I looked online but could not find any pictures. But I saw the French Vogue children's supplement this year and it was chocked full of suggestive images of 12 year old girls with their blouses open, legs open and tons of stuff that could get a pornographer in serious trouble. I guess it is not as much of a problem for the French.

Well of course they're fucked up, they're French. What would you expect?

[sarettah]

Just saw this from Steve Lightspeed over at the zoo.
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=687118

My opinion is this: An 18 year old should be allowed to be a nude model. She is considered an ADULT. However, consider this analogy:

If Barnes&Noble carries both Hustler Magazine, and Young Miss Magazine in the store, that's fine. If they put them on the SAME RACK, that's questionable. If they put them side by side on that rack, that feels wrong. But if they fold the YM inside the Hustler and sell them together as a two pack, THAT IS FUCKED UP!

This argument is all about CONTEXT. The setting of a picture, the hair, clothing and makeup, the props, the text around the pictures, the links to other pages, and the other pictures on the same page make the difference between "fine" and "fucked up".

I believe an 18 year old girl should be allowed to model nude if she wants to. Lightspeed has been accused in the past of making our models look younger than 18, so we adjusted our sets and shooting style to be less controversial. We support ASACP and the elimination of CP from the net. I think alot of these issues would go away if people used more COMMON SENSE.

Remember: "Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD."

He gets it.

[softball]

That was explained very well. I personally think that Lightspeed is the model for teen websites. If 18 is the age, then nothing wrong with posting 18 year olds looking like 18 year olds.

[LadyMischief]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Just saw this from Steve Lightspeed over at the zoo.
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=687118


He gets it.

Agreed. One of the few unfortunately. Some of the sites out there today make me ill.