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I'm kind of surprised that nobody mentioned Brooke Shields.
Yeah, there's a small array of that type of incident. While Shields's mother put her into sketchy stuff disturbingly far under the age range of Lords, by the time of the infamous 'nothing comes between me and my jeans' ad, she was 15 and... it seems like it was just social conservatives and some second wave feminists who even found it noteworthy? And that's only got press coverage because it could show up as a surprise in a magazine ad; far more explicit content was just getting commercial review as a product. She ended up in a lengthy court battle started when she was 16, trying to keep photos from six years before out of a Playboy Press publication. What the hell.
Which would be awkward enough if she were the only case, but nope.
There's a joke about the past being a foreign country, but it's weird to see how recently things can be so foreign. You hear about one-pants families in pre-1992 China (caveat: not sure I believe them, even as extreme outliers) or actually look at the Shakespeare-era Romeo and Juliet age ranges and shake them off as a distant. Then you look at this stuff and see 2003 in the United Kingdom or Brookes's 1980 filmography, and that's not so distant.
And then there's the broader Blue Is The Warmest Color problem, so we don't really object to the idea, so much as what's downstream of it. But then you start to see the reasons, and it's not exactly an arbitrary division.
I dunno. I don't really like thinking about this topic, so I really don't want to turn it into my 'beat'. But it's also probably important as to how we understand the world's norms, and about how new generations form romantic relationships, and there are recent court cases touching on its intersection with law and policy.
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