SHe’s a 26 year old woman trying to further herself in her field of choice. IT is not Hustler magazine, most on that site are less revealing than the much younger girls I’m watching swimming in the world championships right now, on national TV. The way I see it you have a couple choices, one to just vote for her because she is a friend. Or you can withhold your vote, because you dont think she deserves it in the context of the contest, that’s you being honest. But pretending that it is some creep show and you just want distance, I think that is a little over the top when talking about full fledged adults here, pursuing some artistic path. Its not porn, its modeling…She doesnt have a problem, and apparently here family doesnt either, so good for them to support their daughter…
I will do everything in my power to steer my daughter away from this type of work, but if she were 26 and set her mind in a way I was never going to change it, I would support her too…
It isn’t what she is doing. If I found it on my own, I wouldn’t think twice. It is mom who is blasting it to friends and family that I do not understand.
Perhaps the mom doesn’t look at it with the same “creepiness factor” that you do. Perhaps to the mom, she is proud of her beautiful daughter and merely sees the photos as showing off her daughter’s beauty. Perhaps the creepiness of it doesn’t register with her in the slightest.
If that’s the case, I can understand missing the perspective you mention. I think it’s incredibly unobservant, but I could at least understand it.
I’m assuming that’s the case.
Here is the other factor - I have a daughter a little older than this. I see guys my age leering over her and, being the protective papa, I want to kill them. That’s my little girl, even though she is a 30 year old adult. Having that feeling about my own kid, it makes me feel “icky” to view a friend’s daughter in any way remotely sexual.
But, as I mentioned before, these pics are supposed to be sexual. They are intended to be titillating. So, I actually feel guilty looking at them and having the reaction that she is sexy and I should vote for her based on her sexuality.