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My immediate response was to defend the artist right, freedom, etc, but now that I watch people around me blindly defending without consideration for the photographs themselves, the argument is becoming strained. Who says a 13 year-old has the intellect (psychologically not legally) required to consent to this 'role’? Who has judged the parents motives for providing the encouragement and legal consent for the child to be involved (lets not pretend that the parents 'consent' is not read as encouragement by the child)? The motives of the parents, the artist, and the gallery must be brought to the fore if one wishes to discuss freedom.