[adrianka]

I don't care whether she is dressed or naked, suggestiveness is not about the lack of clothes. There are naked photos out there that are perfectly innocent, and sometimes a model is fully dressed and the photo is borderline porny in character.

It's all about sexy posing. She is definitely posing sexy. Children should not be put in such a position IMHO. Yes, there are sites out there where creeps can find more suggestive photos, but that doesn't mean that I'm OK with this or that kids should be posing like that because of that. This kind of thing doesn't create pedophiles (they are out there), it just kind of makes pedophile thinking more acceptable (because it's not some dirty illegal thing, but an official "normal" mag) - which is the part that is unacceptable to me. It shouldn't be encouraged, should it?

And yes, I agree beauty pageants are more disturbing than this, and have always found them disgusting and never got why they were actually allowed, because that's child abuse as well (those kids are too young to really know what's going on, so they can't really make a decision and the parents are just totally irresponsible).

Actually, while I'm very much tolerant when it comes to nakedness in general (you're all right Europeans have a different approach here), sometimes I'm truly disgusted by some US kid photographers (and I'm sure not just US, it's just that I had the chance of finding those) who make children pose as adults - some of them make Photoshop actions that I bought, and I'm pretty sure you'd be surprised I found some of the pics slightly disturbing (judging from FB comments where people go aaaaaaw how gorgeous that is), but each time I show some of those to my friends they find them over-the-top as well - must be a different way how we see things, those cultural differences DO exist. :-)

P.S. Abuse, in my view, is not just being violent to kids. Parents are adults and should be responsible for their children. If they allow / make them do suggestive photos, they are abusing their position as the responsible person, because the child of that age can NOT see what's OK and what's not - they basically think in terms of their parent's way of thinking. So that's why I was talking about abuse.