theres no such thing as scantily clad, there is nothing scandalous about the human figure, embrace it . people just h8 cuz they dont look as good.

There's nothing wrong with the human figure but there's only one type of human figure portrayed, the sorts found on perfect bodies and without flaw. How is a little girl supposed to accept a non stop bombardment of such idolization? Where is MAXIM parading the plus sizes and celebrating the diversity of the human figure rather than only the one attractive to the average American male eye? It's all right and good to celebrate the human body, but we're not celebrating the human body in these magazines, we're advocating pornography and telling girls there's only one way to look.

then stop. my daughter will know the difference between a china doll super model that basically isnt real , and what real people look like. If a magazine or TV has the power to manipulte your childs mind to that degree, better parenting must be implemented

Please. If advertising didn't work, they wouldn't advertise.

Annually, the amount of money spent on billboards, tv promos, not to mention the money poured into dolls, the emphasize of beautiful tv and movie figures, etc. All of this combines to feed the image of what is beauty.

When you go to a grocery store, where are the parental foods placed and where are the children foods placed? Eye level appropriate to the age groups eye level. When you walk down the aisle of a toy store, nothing more than rows of baby toys and doll houses, perfect to drive home the fact to our daughters that parenting is the appropriate place for the female.

Advertising not successful? Consider the financial success of the BRATZ line of dolls which has expanded into lunch boxes, school supplies, upcoming video games. The continued investment of the average woman into cosmetic line after cosmetic line, the continuing rise of reports of psyche struggles from woman who have weight issues and conflicting acceptance of themselves, the billion dollar pornography industry that serves as a reminder to girls of what guys are looking at and what they are finding appealing.

Why this very message board now uses advertising as a means of funding support. If advertising does nothing, then why how do mega stores and encompassing toy lines continually report annual growth figures in denial of downward economic trends? It is not the singular influence that will affect a child, it is the combination of multiple influences seen from every direction of their lives that will influence them. The number of peers they have telling them every day at school what is right and what is wrong, and what parenting influence is there when both parents spend more time working and letting their child watch the very television that will influence them from years to come?

How about the staggering rise in teen pregnancies and sexual encounters? Oh, surely this cannot be in any part due to the fact that there are other factors besides parents? But tell a twelveyear old girl that it's possible to get pregnant and that, in fact, she is, and will she fully comprehend that statement?

Advertising doesn't work? We can know Nike runs slave factories over seas and yet never bother to, perhaps, select a different brand. Why even now we're victims of advertising, subscribing to particular services to engage us online, and the only thing that will seperate you from the hundreds of millions of consumers is whether or not you fully thought out that decision and reached a completely logical conclusion about each and every single one of your purchases and investments over the course of your life. Unless, starting today, you begin to do so.

This is not to say good parenting isn't a strong influence, because it is. But if we continue to accept exterior influences to bombard our children during the multitude of hours during which we are not accessible and never even once protest, then we have only accomplished the bare miminum. At the very least, start by turning off the television.

well i guess if you arent gonna keep your kid shelterd to an allmost insane degree, maybe we shouldnt be having children. we cant even take care of a 3rd of the people on the earth as it is.

Good children take their clothes off.
Penis on the Little Mermaid's castle.

I would say, if people cant handle some nudity... something is wrong with them.

bleh. people are such wussies today..

oh mah gawd a boob and a bad word :O im shocked

get a grip, weaklings.

I don't like Maxima because there is to much talk and not enough nudity.

I think parenting has more to do with spreading the consumer view of a 'perfect 10' than some think....a lot of my female friends have been through the whole 'look good so you can land a man' routine with their mom. As far as nudity itself goes, I don't think the human body is obscene. End of story. Warfare is obscene.

I like it when good girls do bad things.

way to revive a thread from the dead.

religion has warped the people's mind into believing the naked body is not pure, beautiful, or natural. everyone needs to get naked more in my opinion...except for winter time.