@BillRM,
If i bother to look at a teenage girl at all, my thoughts are almost always on the subject of how immature she is. I inhabit a different world from that of teenagers, which is how it should be. I certainly don't find them sexually attractive. I have a problem with the idea that a woman in her 20s is sexually attractive, at my age. That's a product of something called maturity--a subject about which i would suggest that neither you, nor the Rapist Boy nor David know anything from personal experience.
The subject here is the sexual objectification of people. It's bad enough that advertisers can get away with it for adults, and i know of no one here calling for that to be restricted. However, when it comes to children, society has a right to object, and if it does, that's just too damned bad for the "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed" crowd.
First, get your facts straight. Fanning was 17, she was not of age to sign a contract to buy 12 recordings in 12 months from a record company--and she certainly was not an adult being portrayed in an almost sheer garment. So this is very definitely a case of protecting underage girls from the likes of Rapist Boy--and of you. It may come as a shock to you, but mature men look at girls under the legal age, and very likely, any woman under 25, and see a child, not a potential sexual partner. Grow up, for christ's sake.
It is only a side issue, but there is also something wrong with objectifying people rather than seeing them as people, as individuals. I might see a woman of 30 or 40 whom i consider attractive, but learn that i don't like her personality, and the attractiveness ends then and there. I might get to know a woman of 30 or 40 to whom i would not necessarily be attracted on a superficial basis, but become enamored of them for reasons of their personality, their character, their intellect--you know, all those things about which you don't have a clue?
It truly is pathetic to see middle aged men (or, as in Rapist Boy's case, superannuated teenyboppers) slavering over girls who are, essentially, just children.
