| Re: Underage model for lingerie + beachwear shoot?
The child will mature. she will get friends and may get religion or influenced by opportunism.
With a minor and a quasi-erotic site, you are helping insert her in a milieu that some bottom-feeder lawyer could use to leverage some action against you both! It doesn't matter whether or not you are careful and right. If charges are ever filed, you could have your computer and equipment impounded as per Bob Shell. There there there was a death. However, there is an hysterical over-zealous politically motivated climate and it is hardly worth the risk.
Europeans are much more reasonable. However, in the USA, there are far too many cowboys trying to capture "bad guys".
The climate here is more crazy than one would image. I went with my son to a parents and student registration 4 years ago in UC Santa Barbara. Close cropped harsh young women from the University Health Service, addressed the new female students. They told them that if they struggle with their coursework it may be, as they have repeatedly found, due to repressed memories of sexual abouse by male family members, especially the father! They offered group meetings "to help them recall the abuse that they have suppressed"!
I couldn't believe I was hearing this!
This witch-hunt mentality is a a symptom of a society cultural issue that baffles me!
So, IMHO, informed consent is only a relative protection.
I was supposed to photograph a 15 year old nude/semi-nude, but photographed her instead with a stunning long dress, a bouquet of flowers and a blue stone crucifix. They were delighted.
Here, you don't have a choice of the clothing. the poses themselves for the site and other models (two girls together "derriere a derriere"), makes the placement of a minor at some small risk in the USA.
Of course, you would most probably have no problems at all. You will see the model and parents are reasonable and things will go perfectly, especially that you have shot her before. Still, what worries me is the size of the target. A client with money! All big targets can be hit easily.
As others have said, older models that look like her or better are always available.
James Russel and others with so much more experience and success, may well have no worries about this model. You however, are the only one here who is the potential target.
Asher
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