The worst part of all of this is that the young girl involved in the photograph would likely have never been bothered, later in life, by having been the model used had it just gone silently into the night. Instead, the people trying to cause a fuss about it are going to be the ones that make her feel ashamed for it, which will then lead to them pointing and saying "See! See what it did! You're a bad man Mr. Photographer! You should be in jail!"
The problem with the photograph and any sense of shame the girl will feel about it won't come from the photograph, but rather from people making a huge deal about it. I wonder how many newspapers have splattered the face of the image across it's pages. Will they ever be held responsible for making her feel ashamed? Of course not. That would require journalistic integrity.


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