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Such events should not be held in public facilities. When photo shoots start getting more explicit on site, models are sometimes forced to pose in ways they don’t want.

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Lawyer Keiko Ota, who specializes in gender discrimination issues. Saitama prefectural officials have found themselves in trouble over commercial photo shoots held at parks that have included swimsuit models in sexy poses and models who were minors.

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Stay classy Saitama

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Make it illegal, like truest illegal to take photos, videos etc of miniors in questionable ways? The weird loopholes that no one seems to care about while touting these statements is so weird.

but also, if your “modeling” at a public space, especially in questionable poses… your probably not a real model.

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Since when has sexy-swimwear and non-sexual minor shoots become illegal?

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Since there is very little a city government can do in practice to prevent people from taking photos in public parks, its not hard to predict where this will lead: more signs!

I've noticed that Japan has a unique approach to posting rules in parks. In my home country they usually put one big sign or notice board near an entrance where all of the rules of the park are contained and everyone can see them. The benefit of having them on one sign at the entrance is that it keeps the clutter in the park itself to a minimum, while also making it easy for users to know all the rules (if they care to).

In Japan though, every time they need to introduce a new rule in response to some complaint (like this one) they inevitably produce a bunch of signs dedicated to that one rule and sprinkle them liberally around the park.

So in my local park, we have signs saying "No golf practice" and others that say "No barbeques", while others say "Fireworks forbidden" and "Take your dog's poop home with you." The signs are literally everywhere. They give the park a very cluttered look and they are also insanely inefficient as a way of communicating the rules of the park to people who use it. In order to find the rules, one literally has to walk around the entire park and discover them one by one as you walk past the various signs. Its idiotic.

I'm guessing we can look forward to "No bathing suit photographs" signs going up in parks across Japan sometime in the near future.

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I guess those models have no vocal chords to say, "No I will not do this."

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How is a photo shoot in a bikini not sexy?

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kyushubill

I guess those models have no vocal chords to say, "No I will not do this."

If they're not getting paid until after the shoot, they probably feel pressure to go along until they get paid. I would imagine if it was something truly sexually abusive, they would most likely decline and contact someone for help.

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I witnessed one of these shoots. It was a bunch of incel-looking guys ogling over the moderately attractive "model". I think it's probably the only way any of these losers get to have a pretty-ish girl follow their requests for an hour.

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These child abuser and enablers are grooming minors into poses dressed in ( let face it, you can't call what they are wearing swimsuits. change the fabric and it is Lingerie ) revealing wear ? These calls themselves photographers wears no guilt at all, they don't even bat a eyelid at what they is doing is child pornography.

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