Eww

Was reading Wired today, and save this article about Girl Models..

Basically sites of parents selling pictures/videos of their children being children.. nothing overtly pornographic about it, yet it doesn't take a genius to work out the kind of unsavory following that they get.. However it appears that the parents of said kids like to play dumb, and go out of their way not to know who is paying them..

The director of the company which runs the sites mentioned in this article (and who also runs a set of porn sites, yet denies there is anything in common between the two business lines..) claims he doesn't know why people want to view the sites..

To quote the article..

Gordon said he had no idea why someone would shell out $25 a month to browse pictures of little girls in bikinis.

"That's something you'd need to ask a psychology professor," he said.

Mitchell Earleywine, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California, responded:

"Beats the hell out of me. I'm really at a loss why anyone would pay to look at these photos."


*chuckles*

I saw one of these sites mentioned on someone's LJ.. I just forget who's.. I think it was one a friend's friends page.. hmm oh well.

Anyway, I gotta say that this is pretty disturbing. :/