I currently started modeling for a site, Modern Day Venus Institute. The goal of this site is to get society to overcome the fear of the human body, and sexuality, especially in teenagers. The photos models take are art, not promiscuous in any form! We take pictures in swimwear, boyshort style underwear, shorts, etc. Girls, if you're interested in modeling for MDVI, please contact me. Overall, the topic I'd like to discuss is, is this okay? Do you think this is exploitation in any way, shape, or form?
For a 15 year old child to "model" in anything less that regular clothing seems like nothing but exploitation to me.
I find it strikingly unusual, but possibly a testament to your age, that you think or believe that society has a fear of the human body or sexuality. Teenagers don't share that fear either. Using little girls on a website where they will model in "swimwear, boyshort style 'underwear' etc..." and these photos are meant to get society to "overcome fear of sexuality" kinda sounds like a kiddie porn site... ...
before you reiterate that the photos are art and nothing else you should take a look at some high fashion modeling photos. Consider the lighting, the composition of the photos, the poses, the makeup, the clothing styles, the facial expressions, the implied meaning or story intended to be presented by the team of artists that made the photos vs what is on your site... I imagine the difference is vast.
The last thing I will say about it is that the sad truth you don't have to be naked or posed in a blatantly lude way for sickos to get what they went to the website for
Yeah I agree with EricHarms.
Why do you have to take your clothes off for other people to feel comfortable with your body anyway? I feel there are better ways of doing it that don't leave young people open to exploitation. The thing is you may intend for these photos to be viewed in a particular way, but unless you have a great deal of skill as a photographer in putting your message across you can't control how people will see them.
And I think a great deal of people will just see teenagers who should've kept their clothes on. Or are trying to sexualise themselves in the same way that a bunch of young girls already do by posting half naked pictures of themselves on sites like this
The goal of this site is to get society to overcome the fear of the human body, and sexuality, especially in teenagers.
Society is not afraid of sexuality in teenagers. Society, after all, used to be a teenager itself.
What society is afraid of is manipulative adults playing on the inexperience and immaturity of kids in order to put them in sexualised situations before they are ready to make an informed and unforced decision to do so. Like, for example, persuading them that they are in some way changing the world for the better by getting photographed naked or semi-naked.
I invite those running Modern Day Venus Institute to defend their aims here themselves, and not by sending minors as apologists or recruiting agents. They can expect to be challenged, of course. If they are not willing to do so, their presence will not be tolerated on these boards, because based on the evidence presented so far their operation looks like a recruitment vehicle for ephebophiles.
"What society is afraid of is manipulative adults playing on the inexperience and immaturity of kids in order to put them in sexualised situations before they are ready to make an informed and unforced decision to do so."
I agree with Vermin and EricHarms
There are adults out there that would love to see teenagers showing off their "goods" and it is wrong to exploit them. there are ways for you to send a messege through photography without prancing around in not all there clothing.
yes photography is an art but there are people that use it in the wrong ways, then it just becomes a sick photograph.
1. No contracts no parental consent. No true modeling agency would accept pictures of minors without a release form or without a parent in the loop on everything their kid is doing.
2. Camera phone pics. I mean come on, there is no professional lighting, no artistic poses and you're in boyshorts/ half naked. Honestly, that in itself should alert anyone that something is going on.
3. Minors. A minor can be a model, I'm not saying they can't. But there is a difference between modelling professionally and just taking shitty 2MP photos and sending them in to some creep you don't know. For all you know, he'll photoshop someone else's body onto your pic and say you took it.
We don't have a fear of sexuality. We have a problem with child exploitation, and this "institute" is doing exactly that. Rounding up kiddie photos so he has fap material until Armageddon.
The coding of this site is charmingly eccentric. It has decided that, as you have registered with the same name as a previously-deleted account, you must be the same person.
Models under the age of 18 should not be modeling in any "sexy" outfits or anything less than general costume wear would be considered exploitation, and they are opening themselves up to a lot of problems and potential lawsuits, so they better make sure that they are getting signed permissions forms from the model and the model's parents. The modeling world is VERY tricky.
Overall, the topic I'd like to discuss is, is this okay? Do you think this is exploitation in any way, shape, or form? 
What? It's the truth
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