This campaign baffles. While the Family Violence Partnership in Milwaukee wants people to realize statutory rape in a bad thing, the campaign, which features young girls with big (digitally enhanced, we assume) breasts, sexualizes these young girls into objects of desire. Now maybe the campaign is trying to say no matter how huge a girl’s breasts are or how hot she might be, if she’s under 18, she’s still off limits but to “normal” people, it sends a very queasy, disconcerting message.
It’s natural for guys to be attracted (or at least initially shocked) by a female with a large amount of cleavage. At the least, it causes one to look and, perhaps, feel something. But when one finally forces himself to look up only to realize the possessor of those hefty, cleavage-creating breasts bulging out of the girl’s top is perhaps just 12 years of age, ickiness sets in and any feeling one might have had becomes disgusting to a certain degree.
We completely understand the desired message this campaign intends to convey. We’re just not sure its sexualized tactics are warranted. Of course, we could be sick ourselves and greatly in need of help.
