Attached Link: A3/H3

(Nice pic of Solange, there, Conniekat :))

Yeah, Heather Marks. 19? Not much older than 15 to me lol.
Just shows you. To me, her apparent age was 15 and to me she had no place being that young and being on a cover, but if that image had been painted / CGI I wouldn't have a problem with it. It's all about perception. And about whether we are talking about a living breathing human being - or a bunch of pixels. I'm more inclined to allow younger looking faces on pinup style renders than I would ever be of a photograph of the same nature.
Thing is, it's not just the girls, it's the boys, too. I just think the lines between innocent images and intentional images has been blurred beyond all recognition.

Yes, CGI Characters have no age as such and the apparant age is the actual age in their case. But at the same time, people need to remember that these are not people, but pixels. I don't want to see or condone any form of child abuse, be it via images or physically.
Yes, Rendo has stricter standards, and I agree with them. I don't want people to get the impression I don't.
However, sometimes I wonder why one image is allowed and another is removed. And in most cases I actually hear about, it seems like someone overreacted.

Take Thorne & Sarsa's character morphs for instance. I've heard mutterings about their apparent childlike features. This doesn't disturb me. I think they are pretty and cute, but I can also understand some of the concern I've seen once or twice. Again, it's perception and to me they are more toony than real, what with the big eyes and things Toony also seems to be more acceptable and forgivable. Take Hiro for instance.
Put him in a bishi pose with smoldering looks in his toony big eyed face and no one is going to slamdunk you over it. Put T&S's Larkyn (for instance) in the same situation and you might just find yourself nailed to the wall for it.
The link might give you an idea. Same pose on both, but it's the faces that give you the "kids" impression. If you were to take the clothes off... well... you'd have a definite "eek" factor.
To me, I feel A3 looks about 14 and Hiro about the same, if not a tiny bit younger.
But if you changed the eyes (mainly) you'd have a whole different impression. It's those big eyes that do it, mostly.

Silke