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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you clinging to the notion that Hugh Hefner was a force for good, consider this:

Brooke Shields was 10 years old, and Eva Ionescu was 11, when naked photos of them appeared in Playboy.

That's right, Good 'ole Hef published nude photos of children in sexualised positions. Even if you don't give a rat's behind about adult women, perhaps you may care about children?

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The pics were not in Playboy and it wasn't Hef publishing them. It was his Gross and they were first published in Photo Magazine and later in Sugar and Spice (both were publications owned by Playboy Press). Brooke's mother gave full rights to Gross for the pictures.

"The picture comes from a series taken by Garry Gross, an advertising photographer from New York who was regularly employed by Brooke’s mother to photograph her daughter, then a model with the Ford agency. At the time, Gross was working on a project for publication entitled The Woman in the Child, in which he wanted to reveal the femininity of prepubescent girls by comparing them to adult women. Large prints were also exhibited by Charles Jourdan on 5th Avenue in New York."

Shields used to have the rights of her images returned to her, however the court decided “these photographs are not sexually suggestive, provocative or pornographic, nor do they imply sexual promiscuity. They are pictures of a prepubescent girl posing innocently in her bath”. The court rejected all Brooke Shields’ claims and decided in Gross’s favour.

"Gross later sold the rights for the 10 prints to Richard Prince in 1992.  In his artistic work, Prince appropriates pictures by rephotographing them, recontextualizing them and giving them a title. The picture of Brooke Shields, for example, is entitled Spiritual America. Gross was willing to retrocede his rights to Prince for a series of ten prints. Prince became a star of the contemporary art scene and his picture was sold at Christies in 1999 for $151,000."

– From “Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography” in the Bibliothèque Nationale[/quote]

"The Woman in the Child, in which he wanted to reveal the femininity of prepubescent girls by comparing them to adult women"

"published by Playboy Press"

Yep, that's called pedophilia.  We aren't dumb, creep. [/quote]

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