October 25, 2010
By Hollie McKay -Published October 25, 2010 – FoxNews.com
What is it with photo shoots about sexy schoolgirls?
“Glee” stars Dianna Agron and Lea Michele got down and dirty for a GQ magazine spread released last week, set in high school, sucking lollipops, with their legs wide open.
Earlier this year supermodel Miranda Kerr posed topless in school girl clothes in French fashion magazine “Numero.”
In 2001, “Lolita” star Dominque Swain posed naked in a classroom in a campaign for animal rights activists PETA.
And in 1999, Britney Spears burst onto the scene donning pig tails and a sexy school uniform in the video for “(Hit Me) Baby One More Time,” and appeared in a bra and panties on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Experts tell Pop Tarts that these instances of young women posing suggestively as school girls impact all women by promoting the ideal that the younger the woman, the more appealing she is.
“Although the actresses [in the 'Glee' shoot] are adults, they are dressed as schoolgirls. This promotes and drives the male obsession and desire for younger and younger women,” explained relationship expert Patrick Wanis, PhD. “The GQ ‘Glee’ photo shoot also sends the message to women that if you want to be attractive and appealing to men, then you need to be really young – a teenager – and sexual.”
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July 26, 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery.
Opposition groups in Iran say police have been trying to execute an arrest warrant on the lawyer of a woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery.
The case has caused an international outcry against Iran, which ordered a temporary reprieve for the woman.
A leading opposition website reported that security police went to the offices of lawyer Mohammed Mostafaie armed with an arrest warrant.
His wife and her brother were taken into custody but there was no word on the whereabouts of the lawyer, who is a well-known human rights activist.
Supporters said he invited arrest by speaking to foreign media outlets about the case of his client, 43-year old mother-of-two Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery.
In a separate case, award winning Iranian journalist and anti-death penalty campaigner, Emadeddin Baghi, has been sentenced to a year in prison and a five-year ban from political activity for forming a group for the rights of prisoners.
April 21, 2010
Times of London
The girl’s unusual legal challenge to the arrangement generated international media attention and scrutiny of Saudi Arabia’s record of child marriages.
A 12-year-old Saudi girl has won a divorce from her 80-year-old husband in a case that may help to introduce a minimum age of marriage in the kingdom for the first time.
The girl’s unusual legal challenge to the arrangement generated international media attention and scrutiny of Saudi Arabia’s record of child marriages. It also prompted the state-run Human Rights Commission to appoint a lawyer to represent her. The commission has capitalized on the case and pushed for a legal minimum age for marriage of at least 16.
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Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at a news conference on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, in New York. Bharara indicated that the Gambino organized crime family has reached a new low by allegedly being involved with sex trafficking of a minor. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)
NEW YORK — A reputed boss of the Gambino organized crime family and 13 other people are facing an array of charges, including what prosecutors called new criminal territory for the mob: sex trafficking of a minor, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Papers filed in federal court in Manhattan allege that Gambino soldiers and associates recruited prostitutes at strip clubs, including a 15-year-old, and advertised their services on the Internet.
Prosecutors said the mobsters drove the prostitutes to appointments in Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn and New Jersey, splitting their earnings with them. The defendants also “made the young women available for sex to the players at the regular high-stakes poker games” hosted by the family, the court papers said. (more…)
April 3, 2010
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