Rork1973 opened this issue on Jan 06, 2002 ยท 29 posts
bsteph2069 posted Mon, 07 January 2002 at 10:45 AM
BUT Apfrey- You haveno idea how the parents of this child has raised it (her or him ). I'm not nescessarilly trying to defend the parents but your amazement stems from the asumption that the child was unused to nudity and therefore tricked or has no choice to participate. Children often have no "problem" with nudity. Think about how many children take off their diapers because they feel uncomfortable. In fact children are forced and trained to wear clothes. If the child is a participant I would assume they were asked and didn't mind participating. Children can be quite noisy if they don't want to do something and the boy did not appear to be restrained in the photo. Also I'm sure any photographer much less an experienced one would continue with a unwilling subject. Additionally the rest of the participants would most likely have said something to the parents. If their child was making a fuss. Finally I'm sure some comment by Rork that this child was forced to participate would appear in the writeup. There are different types of parents. My guess is that a parent which takes a child to such a photoshoot is comfortable with nudity and has trained their children to be comfortable like wise. Whew. Sorry about writing a novel. Bsteph