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There is nothing offensive about the photos either, its sad really, those images are incredibly beautiful and so full of life and love

(Sigh). I was hoping to see Dr. Strange in there. He is the Master of the Mystic Arts, after all.

Those pics aren't as offensive as the little tykes in Jamacia taking hits on a joint in some church from a few months ago.

Damnitall.

Maybe they can take up a collection for those of us less fortunate here in the states. Maybe put a care package together and ship it up here.

It's PO Box.....

Insightful comment on how far backwards we've come in forty or so years. Being the father of small children, and even if I weren't, I find anything involving children in a sexual nature perverse, to say the least.

But these are just pictures of naked kids being kids. It's a sad commentary on our time that they've become such frightening things. I wonder what it will take to finally rid ourselves of our puritanical nature. I certainly think that we have lots more important things to worry about that the Coppertone girl's butt hanging out.

rest assured all...thousands of peaceful, loving folks are still living communally all across the u.s., not necessarily refusing to contribute to the moral erosion of our country, but just preferring not to be a part of it...
it's got incredible appeal to me, as I experienced the fringe of communal living while on grateful dead tour for 6 years. I've frequently broached the subject with my wife, but she just can't live w/out victoria's secret body lotion, her SUV or missing an episode of 'Chuck'

There are a couple of things that bug me about this OMGPEDO attitude that's developed over the last decade or so.

1. It's kind of creepy the way people will impose sexuality on the most innocent of images. Kinda says more about the people who freak about it than anyone else, if you ask me.

2. When did we develop this hair-brained notion that human beings don't have genitals until they're visited by the Gonad Fairy on the eve of their 18th birthday.

3. I'm a little under forty...am I the only person my age that played doctor? If so, what happened to all the people I played it WITH?

4. I wonder if anyone's looked closely at the correlation between increasingly prude attitudes toward the human body and sexual dysfunction?

5. I wonder how many people are going to read this and think "that guy must be a perv."

A president and his administration deliberately lie to the people and the rest of the world about military intelligence for the purpose of fabricating an unnecessary and unjustified war that leads to the loss of scores of thousands of lives. The vice-president openly condones torture in stark rejection of every known point of military ethics. 700 billion dollars in tax money is given to super-rich corporations with no oversight and a haughty dismissal of any suggestion that it should be accounted for...

...but a picture of some little kids bare ass from a 40 year old family magazine is "obscene."

What in the world has happened to our priorities?

the pendulum has swung pretty far in this direction i hope it backs off before every teenager that has consesual sex with another teenager has to file as a sex offender and so many harmless people are on the list that no one pays attention to the really bad ones. kind of like when car alarms first came out people looked when one went off now we ignore it and just hope somebody shuts it off. nobody hears one and thinks a car is being stolen anymore. if everyone is on the list it's no better than if no one is on the list.

the above pic looks like the cast from 'little house on the prairie'

fool... I give up permanently this time. Have a good holiday season and onwards folks.

patty: In most states the sex offender lists are already worthless, filled up with tons of non-dangerous offenders (statutory rape, mostly of teens who reached 18 and the girls' parents decided they didn't like him; public indecency (got drunk and took a leak in public and got caught); etc.) There was an article recently about groups trying to get the laws changed in Texas, by finding those non-dangerous offenders and also talking to the people involved to get the real story. Often people were shocked to find out that the people ended up as sex offenders, and were happy to provide any info they could.

What was particularly telling was the people they talked to from the groups who promote these sex offender registry laws. Even confronted with evidence of all these innocent people ending up on the lists and having their lives ruined, they thought that there weren't ENOUGH people on the lists.

I say we put those psychos on the lists and let them learn firsthand what they're sentencing hundreds of people to in the name of "saving the children".

kevin i hear you. i know first hand of a case were a 16 year old boy got curious after serfing the net and seeing inappropriate sights. he touched his 14 year old sister inapropriately, which is wrong and should have been addressed, but his mom found out and freaked. she talked to a psychologist hoping to get help and instead the world caved in for their family. the boy was charged with rape when rape did not actually occur. for fear of going to jail for a long time the boy pled out and got 2 yrs probation, and has to register for 10 yrs. he's lucky they just changed the law again if it happened now he'd have to register for life. this kid was sent to the same councelling as violent rapists have to attend. he couldn't live with his family for over 2 yrs. and his sister and him weren't allowed to see or speak to eachother for over 2 yrs even though he expressed genuine remorse and his sister forgave him and wanted to see him. the family still isn't completely back together and may never be. when his mom asked child protective services about their responsibility to her son as a child as well they said 'oh no we're here for the victim only.' i personally think every child should have an advocate, and no child should be discarded.
also both children were never in trouble and had never done anything illegal. it was sad to see unfold, a one size fits all attitude about sex offences is just stupid and crazy.

I wonder what happened to the children in all of those pictures. The youngest would have to be at least...well, about 45 by now.

And you can tell that these are female children HOW??? Because they have long hair? I can see nothing about those pictures that indicates what sex the children are.
My daughter married a nice young man whose parents lived on a commune back in the day. Her father-in-law is now a doctor (MD). My son-in-law is mightily peeved that he didn't get a "cool" name like the ids who were born on the commune.

larriann: well they look female to me, not just because of the hair, but seeing as most of us probably looked at the above clothed photo first, which has the kids in dresses, that probably has a lot to do with our identifying them as girls.

Unfortunately, this isn't a new phenomenon. When I was about six and growing up in 1950's south Florida, I was often to be found running around the neighborhood without a shirt, to the endless consternation of our up-tight neighbors. I never understood the problem then and come to think of it, I don't now either. What in the world is so wrong about a six year old girl's bare chest??? It was HOT and we didn't have air conditioning at the time. Shameless! Immoral! (That was for not having air conditioning! It was hot as hell even then!)

I agree that it's gotten worse in the decades since then, but it's not news. People were prudes in the 50's too.

"Because they feature bare-breasted female children."

Just to let you know – everywhere in the World today, except USA, children of the age of up to about 3 years old play naked on the beach, boys and girls. No swimming suits required. And it is normal, acceptable and OK with all people everywhere (again, USA excluded). Children at that age do not have ‘sexual identity’, they are just children. Just adults are ‘twisted’ insisting that all children, no matter what the age, have to dress, and insist that girls, no matter what age, HAVE to wear a bra. To cover what (?) up to the age of 12 or 14?

And don’t get me wrong – I love children (and don’t you put anything twisted in the ‘love’ part!) and I would wish they could be left alone and not forced to wear a full attire when playing with other kids building sand castles.

Kevin,
I understand that reading the rest of the article informs one that these are female children, but just looking at the "offending" pictures by themselves gives no indication of the sex of the children in them. If one had seen those pictures first - before reading the rest of the article - what would have informed one that the children were female? What if the children were wearing pants in the other pictures?

Shoot - If I had limited sewing skills, EVERYONE would be wearing dresses/skirts just because they are a lot easier to make and fit than pants are. And then where would be be with identifying sex until puberty??

I worked in a photo lab for many years, where we hand-adjusted each photo for color, resulting in me seeing each and every photograph that I developed. I saw MANY family photos with naked kids playing on the beach or in the bathtub or running around their houses naked... and not once, did my mind think "omigod child porn...", because being naked as a kid and having that kind of freedom and shamelessness is a wonderful thing!

Only once during my years of working there, did I see an image that immediately made me uncomfortable enough to look away. It was very inappropriate to me (which is saying a lot), and my other co-workers agreed, so we did what was expected of us, and called the police to get them to investigate it.

But at least in these cases, we would get the opinions of multiple people, and not just one prude vetoing each and every piece of nudity... so who makes those decisions today? One freak to ruin it for the rest of us?

I remember reading this article while I was in the Army in Panama and feeling very wistful about my separation from what was going on in (what I took to be) the real world. Nothing particularly to do with the bare-breasted tykes, I assure you. At any rate they didn't register on me as unusual, having seen plenty while growing up in WV. (No jokes please, except from MaddMaxx who's from TN and has a right.)

gee rodger you spoiled all the fun!