I guess I don't understand what's abusive and disgusting about them. In almost every photo, you see less skin than if they had on shorts and a T-shirt. None of the posing in the whole article is sexually suggestive except maybe slightly one or two. Yes. Thylane has that sexy look down and yes, it's inappropriate to photograph a child as sexy but I think that's the most inappropriate thing about the spread, truly.
To me, most of the photos aren't any different than a lot of the "dress up" photos that we see in scrapbooking galleries of little girls wearing mommy's clothes and makeup. The difference being the quality of the hair/makeup/clothes/photography and the medium in which it's presented. To be honest, any pedophile can browse a scrapbooking gallery in the summer and find much better fodder than these photos. To me, it's a "scandal" that's been blown up in the media to be more than it truly is.
I actually really appreciate the message of the spread, how, as a society, we expect women to be both sexy and childlike at the same time. How the fashion industry uses and abuses girls not much older than this (there are 14 year olds in American Apparel ads!)
But that's just me and I'm not the norm most of the time, LOL
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