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Re:My visit to American Apparel by Jebdm on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:58PM (#425809)
I'd say that some of the ads are somewhat pornographic, yeah. That said, I think it's fairly standard practice for anyone producing pornographic material, and more importantly anything which could be construed as pornographic, to get a release, just to be safe. In fact, people almost always try to cover their asses legally; companies doing "iffy" stuff often check to make sure it's legal first, etc. Thus, it's not clear that they know they are making pornographic ads OR that they think their models look underage, just from that evidence, even if those are both true.

As for the photos: like I said before, they don't look underage to me. I've additionally checked this with a few people in other age ranges of both genders, just to be sure I wasn't crazy, and the consensus was that they all looked like adults.

P.S. The "If you don't agree with me, you're <insert x here>" approach is a bit silly. I do like to consider myself pretty open-minded, though :)

Re:My visit to American Apparel by blurry on Thursday January 08, 2009 @06:21PM (#425843)
What do you mean by somewhat pornographic? Is that like, I sort of cheated on you honey? Or like, I am not fat, I am full-figured?
Re:My visit to American Apparel by Jebdm on Thursday January 08, 2009 @07:02PM (#425902)
"Somewhat", as in it has some mild nudity and sexually suggestive poses, rather than showing any genitalia or actual sexual acts. There's hardcore porn, and there's softcore porn, and then there's this.
Re:My visit to American Apparel by dgordon on Thursday January 08, 2009 @08:36PM (#426007)
Exactly. When the definition involves "I know it when I see it," there are going to be gray areas.
Re:My visit to American Apparel by GHFigs on Thursday January 08, 2009 @08:09PM (#425978)
What do you mean by "essentially child porn"?