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Originally posted by -=HUNGRYMAN=-:
If a girl is 18-25, but looks "younger" she should not be allowed to decide for herself if she wants to sell her pics ???
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I think each of us, as responsible webmasters, has to weigh the points made by both of us, and make the best moral decision themselves.
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People don't look a certain age. People look a range of ages. An 18 year old can look 28. If one takes as a standard that a model can't even look as old as an 18 year old can look, then we can't even use models who look 28, which is absurd.
Then there is the right to work. If a girl can make money by looking how she looks, then it's her right to sell herself that way and the right of whoever takes her pictures to sell her pictures.
I sometimes feel there's a little well of guilt in many adult webmasters who unflinchingly show adult models being explicitly abused (bukkake comes to mind, to offer one example) that they must show a smidgeon of sensitivity in some other area to compensate for it.
I shoot girls who are 18 and some might say that a few of them could look younger (because everyone looks like a range of ages, not a specific age: there is no such thing as a "specific age look"). But at least they are pretty girl pictures, not bukkake or rape pictures.
That is my decision on this matter.
As for how much they get paid. When you are 18 or 20, $50 an hour (what I pay) not only seems like a lot of money for an hour's work but IS a lot of money for an hour's work.
Any attractive 18 or 20 year old girl who can't go out at Noon and have a job by 6 p.m. isn't trying very hard. The truth is, a lot of them would rather pose nude for what seems to us a rather small amount of money than go out and do an honest day's actual work. And a lot of them do it for psychological reasons as well (they are exhibitionists).
There are those who will argue that such and such an amount is too little for a model to make, as if there is some amount written in granite somewhere. Funny, if I were bookkeeper, I might get $7.50/hr working for one company and $18/hr working for another, but no one is out the crying about how much a bookkeeper should make. And that bookkeeper could be a single mom with 5 kids!
Frankly, I'd worry more about the single mom with 5 kids than the model who could certainly get "real work" if she felt like putting in a 40 hour work week. However, I notice that models seem to have always "partied" the night before, so holding down a real job isn't really something that fits into their lifestyle, because partying and holding down real jobs where other people depend on you don't always mix very well.
Modeling is their choice, not ours, so let's not kibbitz. As long as they are told in advance what the pay is and as long as they have freely decided to take the offer, and no deception has taken place, it's an honest and good business transaction as far as I'm concerned.
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