A theory about Russian models

[spazlabz]

As probably everyone knows I work for a program that uses a lot of Eastern European models and one of the questions I get asked often from both webmasters and customers is something along these lines;

"Are ALL your models legally old enough to be doing adult?"

there are variations of this question of course but that is what it breaks down to. My answer is that Everything in our family of sites is 100% 2257 compliant as the law is enforceable today.

But it got me thinking.... 'WHY is it that these girls, every single one of them over the age of 18 and where the photographer is NOT doing anything special to make them look younger, why do they either appear to be borderline or maybe even illegal to these western eyes?

So here is my theory and see if anyone else agrees or disagrees. I think that people who live in wealthy western countries have a diet higher in trans fat and things like high fructose corn syrup, mono sodium glutamate(sic) and such. Because of this our boys and our girls mature physically faster then those in less wealthy countries.

as an example. My 17 year old son is taller then me and has considerably more facial hair then I had at his age. It could be genes from his mothers side by it isn't like she is of Italian or Greek descent. Thats not a racist remark, thems some hairy peeps! He has a girlfriend that is a bit younger then him but who has developed very early and could pass for 20 or something... she doesn't act that old, shes a kid and with me at 40 she seems very immature, but she could pass to an outsider as a girl much older then her age.

Of course we get models that look young because they are teen sites after all, but even at 21 some of our models can cause the casual observer to go 'Whoa!' at first.


so what do you think of my theory, is it gold or pure crap?


spaz