Sexualizing Young Girls

I'm going with a theme here, and that theme is sex and children/teens. In this image, it shows two young girls that have been photoshoped onto the bodies of older women. This ad is about statutory rape, but it still supports the idea that young girls are being sexualized.

I personally find this ad a bit uncomfortable to look at, which is why I chose it. For the normal human being, it is a bit disturbing to look at a picture of a young girl and seeing her face attached to an adult female body. Not only are they attached to adult female bodies, they are attached to female bodies that are dressed provocatively. No one thinks of young girls as provocative or sexual in any shape or form. This image is very controversial because of the imagery being presented.

The two sides of the debate over this ad are the imagery is having the opposite affect then intended and that the ad's use of shock tactics is effective. I personally believe that the ad campaign meant well when they published it, but I think it is taking it too far. This image serves more to sexualize young girls than to discourage such thoughts about them. This image can be more provocative to some individuals than offensive. The fact that they thought they had to use such imagery to discourage stautory rape disturbs me. This image can be damaging to the young girls that participated in it in the future. Because of the image, they could be interpreted as sexual creatures instead of quite the opposite.