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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR or NUDES FOR THE DIAPER SET!

Perhaps no other single factor has brought so much criticizm to the physique photo field as the current exposition of "sexy" pictures of very young boys. The facial expressions and actions in some of these studies indicate an obvious awareness on the port of the young poseurs of the sexual connotation of the photo.

We are not here questionning the almost universal precocity of young people who know more at 12 than their grand parents (and sometimes even their parents) did at 21. Nor are we setting ourselves up as judges to determine whether such pictures are detrimental to either the models or to the people who see them. What we do wish to emphosize is the hostile attitude of the public towards this activity.

Whereas many people are completely tolerant or at least indifferent about how adults and even older teen-agers ore photographed, they are oghost when they see a child of grammar school

a

oge lieing seductively on a bed with one hand on his crotch and

a come-hither look in his eye. They believe, perhaps wrongly, that the ultimate result of such pictures is to trigger some child molester into action. And unfortunately some of the more ignorant people believe that everyone connected with the physique movement condones this behaviour whereas exactly the converse is the case. In truth, this group represents a very small minority though obviously one large enough to make it profitable to devote whole books to their interest..

It is onethmatic to us to suggest the censoring of any form of expression--yet the of ore-mentioned publications might well be the flank thru which a disasterous attack against the entire physique movement could occur. Write to the publishers of such books and in a polite way urge than to use the utmost discretion while there is still time.

JAAN KANGRO 5'7 148 lbs.

pgs 40-45 TU cat. Lots more informa-

tion about Jaan on page 9 of Volume XV, #1 Physique Pictorial.