Bulging Nubile Breasts Command Attention to Statutory Rape
This campaign baffles. While the Family Violence Partnership in Milwaukee wants people to realize statutory rape in a bad thing, the campaign, which features young girls with big (digitally enhanced, we assume) breasts, sexualizes these young girls into objects of desire. Now maybe the campaign is trying to say no matter how huge a girl's breasts are or how hot she might be, if she's under 18, she's still off limits but to "normal" people, it sends a very queasy, disconcerting message.
It's natural for guys to be attracted (or at least initially shocked) by a female with a large amount of cleavage. At the least, it causes one to look and, perhaps, feel something. But when one finally forces himself to look up only to realize the possessor of those hefty, cleavage-creating breasts bulging out of the girl's top is perhaps just 12 years of age, ickiness sets in and any feeling one might have had becomes disgusting to a certain degree.
We completely understand the desired message this campaign intends to convey. We're just not sure its sexualized tactics are warranted. Of course, we could be sick ourselves and greatly in need of help.
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uhh... i think this is supposed to be a young girl's head on a woman's body. thus the headline: "when you look at a young girl as something more you need help."
it's a bad ad, though. you can't read the headline and it's all about the creepy image of the girl/woman mix.
Agree that the type is hard to read. But beyond that, i think this is a smart, fearless campaign.
Steve, you are on the money. this ad should be pulled (imho). sick. - no excuse-
It just makes me feel uncomfortable, which might be the point, right?
I think it has to be a chop job--girl's head on woman's body. Regardless, it's a bad ad.
Over at ads of the world.com, one commenter had said that the ad might actually get a few people hot and bothered and all fantasising. I think it is a valid point, especially if the ad is targetted at people who have a thing for young girls.
I thought the campaign was badly executed, and wrongly thought out. Surely, the same message could be said in much less icky ways and more effectively.
"that the ad might actually get a few people hot and bothered and all fantasising. I think it is a valid point, especially if the ad is targetted at people who have a thing for young girls."
This may be what some of these Pydiphile sycos see. Lets face it their not right, to start with. I generally don't follow the "ban the ad" montra group for many reasons.
But I already plan on having my finger on the channel changer when this come on. This is wrong and as the father of a 12yo girl, it doesn't help the issue at all.
They could have done better. I just find it hard to believe that the had a focus group that thought this was a great idea.
This ad does an awesome job of effectively making you uncomfortable. The image is equally as disturbing as the issue of statutory rape. If you're over 18 you shouldn't be having sex with an underage girl...the ad screams that message loud and clear.
"I just find it hard to believe that the had a focus group that thought this was a great idea."
I found some video of this focus group on Youtube. It seems like the target audience agrees that it's a positive message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmZer-TLhew
This is just American "save the children" BS. For men to look at any female with developing and fully developed body parts and feel attraction is completely natural, despite her age. The more we as a culture contribute to repressing this biological normalcy, the worse we are making it for our girls. The men who act on this and commit the crimes are looking for vulnerability and theres nothing more vulnerable that a developing girl with no sexual education.
Let's not fool ourselves. I have a 15 year old daughter and she's one of the girls who flowered early. EVERY man on the planet, young and old, looks at her and it's obvious what they are looking at: her beauty, body and especially the boobs. I'm even amazed at the amount of women who look at her.
By now I'm pretty much over the shock. I talk to her all about it and we laugh. I even say "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" when I catch someone doing it and we laugh more. She knows that it's normal and that she needs to be aware and get used to it.
She knows that men and increasingly even women might do anything, good and bad, to get in a girl's pants and that she should never forget that. But, I would never teach her to look at society like a bunch of sexual sadists. We are humans and sex is as normal as it gets. It's puritanism that's dangerous. Thinking of sex as solely an act of procreation is much more evil in my mind than men looking at young girls' big boobs. She does come to me to talk about and confirm stories about religious zealots and wonder why they are the ones always being busted doing the sickest sexual things.
I just tell her that this is exactly what I mean and why fostering repression, like this ad does, is a terrible way to handle this issue.
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