Teen Modeling Sites.

She's got all the makings of the perfect woman. All the right curves, perfectly shaped legs, perfect skin... Expect when you see her baby face and realize... Holy S, she's 15... Hence the Teen Modeling Sites. They are quite possibly the second biggest non-nude commodity on the internet. Legend has it, it all started with the video of some girls birthday party that logged in thousands of hits in one week.

The market reached it's peak somewhere in 2000 to 2001 although I don't have the figures that represent how many websites there were at one time. However, every media outlet in the country that found out about this ran a story. Most of them citing what perverts built the sites and what even bigger perverts viewed them. I'll give them the second one, but that's it.

Modern day parents all want their daughters to be little stars. Fine. However, in attempt to do so, they purchase a digital camera, sexy little outfits - ranging from miniskirts to lingerie, hire a webmaster and produce a website that gets about 50,000 hits a day.

You pay a webmaster enough money, he'll design whatever you want. Parents take all the responsibility for this. Sure the money rolls in and within a year you have enough money to put little Susie through college... But have you ever thought about who your target audience is?

Boys your daughter's age don't have a credit card. Mom and Dad aren't going to buy him a subscription, because, that's just wrong and creepy. So your audience is over 18. Statistics show that the buyer is an average age of 42.

So because of the media hype, Visa won't offer services for subscription. The sites are now limited to online checking, phone cards, or other payment services. But you know something? This isn't going away... Not on your life.

Chocolate Covered Teenage Girls.
 
The other day I was driving through town when I passed five girls covered in what was either mud or some sort of Chocolate Sauce. This, naturally, created quite a scene given the male mind and how it works. Men all over town were buzzing about this phenomenon. There was no explanation as to what they were doing or why they were covered in a brown gooey substance.

Today, I opened the paper and there was the article. Five girls ages 13 to 15, had filled a kiddy pool full of chocolate pudding, rolled around in it, and then went around town seeing how many high-fives they could get. The reason for this? One of them was moving away...

I stopped and thought, what Suburbanite yuppie mom thought this was innocent? Even men who were not pedophiles that I ran into were saying "What they would have smeared the girls in..." It was obvious they were younger, under 16 even...

So what mom said, "Oh, it's just innocent kid stuff to smear yourself in pudding and walk all over town high-fiving mostly men..."

I understand the girls being naive. However, I am now fully convinced that parents in America are clueless.  How anyone could watch any broadcast TV and see similar connotations of such things being sexual is beyond me... One things for sure, don't let your kids do this...