I have a clause in my license that forbids implying that a model is underage, although it's there as much for my protection as for anything else, because the girls I shoot are all documented to be 18 or older.
Now, I have several models who look quite young, and it's simply a fact that girls mature at different rates. So, simply because a girl looks like she's fifteen, she may also look like she's 19, because just as some 19 year olds can look 15, so can some 15 year olds look 19. This is where the expression "jailbait" comes from.
Because of this, I'm not sure what "looking underage" means, unless it's a 19 year old girl in a diaper sucking her thumb, but everyone would recognize that as kind of a sick joke, not an instance of pedophilia. Check out my model Kitty (forgive the buttonized look, they are being used in a site design and I'm simply linking to them):
http://207.235.4.65/sitegrph/kitblip11.jpg
How old is she? Does she look underage? I suppose you could say so, because, as I said, no one looks like a specific age, they look like an age range. In fact, the isn't even 18 here, she's 19. She's not dressed up in preteen-looking clothing or anything else to convince you she's underage, she just looks awfully young. Doesn't she have a right to work as a model looking as she actually looks?
Here's another model, Kelly:
http://207.235.4.65/sitegrph/kellblip3.jpg
Once again, she's 19. Are you going to say, "You can't work as a model: You look too young"? Or are you going to try to get me jailed because I gave her work she wanted to have?
I hear a lot of people rumbling against the "teen" thing, but I hear very little practical to do about it, that wouldn't interfere with some very cherished rights, like freedom of expression and the right to work.
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