Why isn't the Miss Teen USA Pageant considered "child porn"?
 

On NBC last night, America was treated to the Miss Teen USA Pageant:

Underage girls prancing around in bikinis? Check.
Underage girls showing off tits and ass? Check.
Millions of men recording the show and jacking off? Check.

So why isn't this show suffering the same scrutiny that "teen model" sites always receive?
Why isn't Oprah inviting the girls and their parents onto her show so that the audience can clap while she asks self-righteous questions?

No nudity, no hardcore sex, none of the things that would qualify the pageant as pornography.

That said, those things make me sick and we all know why grown people really watch them (aside from the people who are involved in the pageant scene and have a genuine interest in the outcome, some of whom are still under suspicion in my book).

SpaceAce

Half those girls have been fucked by one of their parents anyway.

Porn stars in the making if you ask me.

All those kid models have a hard life ahead of them. It starts out cute, then you either make it or you dont.

The ones that come to hollywood and fail, end up doing porn so its from Hollywood to Chatsworth in all but 2 years after they move to California.

Daddys little girl always becomes a star in the end.

I agree it is sick.. but no laws are being broken, are they?

Why is it sick to parade half naked hot young girls around for my enjoyment? Sounds like fucking nirvana to me. No wait, in nirvana we'd be fucking. Yeah, thats it.

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Hollywood ain't easy...

it's ain't hard either if all you want to do is be a waiter!

Because it's not marketed as porn. Some may interpret it as such, but if it's not marketed as such, then it "isn't"...

is there really men jacking off to that?? mmmh... maybe I should get out of porn.... :1orglaugh

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I can't believe a bunch of fucking pornographers are sitting around COMPLAINING about watching the hottest teens from every state paraded around in lingerie. Some of you people need to be slapped upside the head.

I swear, some of these threads are like alternate mirror universes. Everything is the opposite of what it should be.

god bless america...... one day my dream of fucking tiny children will come tru......... only in america..... I'm stickin this one out.....

No shit GB.

I suppose we should also ban teen and pre-teen girls from wearing bikinis at the beach. Some fat guy in a thong might go home and whack off.

"If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it"

- R. Kelly

This is so true and it is indeed hypocritical of the system. If that was on the Net orchestrated by our industry, the moral right would be all over it. TV however legitimizes things like that.

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I'm living my life by those 19 words......

And we should throw the fat guys in jail since we know that the only people who get turned on by 16 year old girls in thongs are child rapists.

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I can't believe someone actually suggested that, and I will never take anything he says seriously ever again. The fact that he owns a degrading hardcore reality site featuring teenage girls just adds to the irony.

Child porn??? WTF? Only in America you will find people calling teens at a pageant show child porn.

Make sure you dont walk on the street anymore, you might see a teen with a short skirt and that would make you a person that is looking at child porn

You're right. We'll need to create the dreaded thought police, so we can scan people's minds for impure thoughts like that. Can't have older fat thong-wearing men looking at our young teens now can we? Hell no. Good point. That really is quite ironic, with a smattering of moronic for flavor. What was his name again.... Hawkeye?

Nothing like blowing your rep in one post. :1orglaugh

I don't think that was the point he was trying to make. I think, rather, that he was trying to point out the apparent hypocrisy of labeling some web sites as child porn while similar content on television is completely acceptable.

plus they all look 36 anyway.

When I lived in Boston one of the Spanish language channels used to have three and four year olds dress in skimpy outfits and sing popular tunes. That disturbed me way more. We called it the pedo channel.

exactly..

the question is, why is a teen model site wrong but this isn't?

More irony! My mind can't take it.

The difference is in the marketing methods used.

In the pageant:

- the emcee doesn't say things like "wouldn't you love to fuck little Betty Sue??"

- The emcee doesn't say "Look at her great tits and ass! If you want to see her nude just turn to channel XX and have your credit card ready!"



On most "teen model" sites..... they DO say things like that. Sexual things filled with innuendo. If this Hawkeye guy can't see the difference, then he has a bit of a perception problem.

so if someone opens a teen model site without any sexual references its gonna be all fine? nobody will bug you? your hosting will not shut you down even if it is some mainstream company?

Under aged girls should not be sexualized by anyone for profit.

Well, that IS a point I have made in the past on these boards. I mean, there is modelling, and then there is "modelling"..... There are modelling sites like modelpromote.com which have portfolios of models in order to get them more work in modelling. Teen model sections are often included in such sites, and some of the models do have their own sites, links to their sites are often included in the portfolio pages of the modelling site. Is it wrong? Personally I don't think so. Teens are just as eligible to do modelling work as any other model. Teen models pose for lots of advertising out there, so showcasing some of their work on a modelling database isn't out of line.


But that is vastly different from sites that market the girls in an obviously sexual context, and invite surfers to pay to see "more of them" etc.

One is professional, the other.... isn't.

Are you a dumb fuck?!? :321GFY

The girls entering these pageants are doing it for their careers, for scholarships to college, etc.

The girls on the 'teen model' sites are doing it so that the parents can get money.

I don't see the pageants as child pornography - like CD said, there's no similarity whatsoever besides the fact that the girls are 17.
It ends right there.

It's like screaming that you can't have a non-nude site featuring FHM, Cosmo, and Maxim-type photography... because "all people looking for non-nude are pedophiles and you know that so if you use the term non-nude on your site you're catering to pedophiles and looking for pedophilia traffic".
Puhlease.
(Yes, I've actually had that conversation with someone.)

Edit: When I say 'teen model' I mean the ones where you look at it and the first thought in your mind is child porn. Not the ones like modelpromote.com where there are teens there.

WHAT? Carrie, you've said some less than smart things, but this takes the fucking cake.

Have you ever been around these contestants? Most just want acceptance and being judged "beautiful" gives them that acceptance. Sure, there are a few level headed girls who are trying to use it to further their careers, but most are there to get some feedback. Do you really think they don't know the money aspects of a beauty pageant title?

Pageant girls are in it for the same exact reasons the teen models were doing it (other than those who were forced, tricked or coerced of course).

So, you're saying some 16 year old girls who shows off on her webcam for trinkets and a few bucks has less noble intentions than a 16 eyar who parades around in a bikini to get trinkets and a few bucks?

The webcam girl doesn't care about her career or education?

While I agree with the sentiment that the problem with teen modelling sites is the way they are marketed, it doesn't mean the girls involved are somehow dumber than those who strut around on stage hoping someone will vote for them that they are beautiful.

Anyone remember the time the Video show was in the summer at the Venetian and that stupid pageant was there as well...

nothing more chilling in a surreal way that to see porn stars parading down the hallway to their show floor, passing hordes of little girls ready for a pageant.

The similarity in the dress and makeup was horrifying. And I mean that in the worst sense of the word.

I'm not sure which was more despairing, making the comparison or watching it dawn on these pageant mothers that there was such a comparison to be made.

Either way they are both wrong in their own right...

Model sites though have a overt sexual tone to them...

while pageants are very feedback oriented...


but still, I knew one mother that was throwing her daughter into pageants and such and damn that poor girl WILL have issues becuase of it all...

I still remember hearing her mother say, "yeah and why didn't you get supreme champion, because of that stupid smile you did"

WTF???

and well the teen sites...thats straight exploitation!

Who says Oregon doesn't have talent.....First Miss America, now Miss Teen USA

Don't Come Here it Rains Everyday:thumbsup

Hopefully the moral right will have some comments on this. There are more than enough of them right here on GFY.

The show in Montreal a few years back shared a hotel with a Ms. World Teen pagent.

Ok... Ill do it for FREE!

I agree.

I'm not saying the Miss Teen USA Pageant is "child porn", I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy in the American system.

Apparently it's perfectly acceptable to show bikini-clad underage girls on prime time TV, but it's not ok to do so on the internet.

I think it's hilarious that adult webmasters on this board get all outraged over non-nude teen sites, yet have no problem (rightfully so) with almost-naked girls on TV.