An Australian magazine aimed at families with children has just unleashed a new controversy about ethically permissible limits on images of children posing. The publication is called "Haven" and is distributed in New Wales, and is part of a larger project that is completed with a website from which advice is offered to grow and explore as families, being part of a community.
In "Haven" they inform and recommend topics related to health, leisure, beauty of mom, and many other things that surely are interesting to their readers. Many of whom have wanted to see a reflection of the tendency to childhood hypersexualization in the cover image She is a girl who can be about 11 or 12 years old, and is standing by supporting the pillar of a building that could be an indoor pool. It has a set of 'vintage' style circus steals designed for the occasion, which has been interpreted as interior steals, and is disheveled. In the image it looks like a pair of ballerinas, holds a sphere with a handle, and does not wear makeup (or at least I do not see it).
Contrary to some opinions I have read, neither the pose nor the facial expression seems to be suggestive, much less sexy, rather it seems that it challenges the adult a bit (a very normal attitude at those ages). I have read some comments stating that she seemed to be just out of bed by her hair, or that that was what he implied, but in addition to (obviously) the hairdresser has done a good job disheveled (my daughter would want it for herself); that a child gets out of bed has no erotic connotation, unless as some readers have happened, we insist on seeing him.
Moreover, the girl's body I could hardly incite eating disorders because it is not very thin, I indicate the latter because insinuations have also been read about it. It only remains for me to point out that it rather reminds me of that controversial exhibition (with children of similar ages) in which disguising the little ones with sometimes provocative elements - in the best sense of the word - was intended to reflect the end of innocence, as a characteristic inherent in the first 10 or 11 years of life.
To calm the mood, the magazine He has appreciated the interest of his readers, whether they have expressed positive or negative reviews, and it has been clarified that at no time have they tried to offend anyone. They are surprised by the negative perception that some people have had.
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