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You know how shops are now putting your photographs on birthday cakes? You bring in a photo and they scan it and use, basically, an inkjet printer to print it out only, instead of ink, they use food coloring and, instead of paper, a thin sheet of sugar. At my nephew's last birthday party, the cake featured a picture of him dressed as Teddy Roosevelt, a few other presidents, and Spongebob. So, pretty much anything goes.Well, almost anything. One mum thought it would be cute to put a picture of her son when he was five-months-old on the cake for his twenty-first birthday. Cute and, perhaps, a wee bit embarrassing, since the picture showed the youngster with a bare bum. Unfortunately, the folks at the store didn't find it so cute; they said the picture violated their no-nudity policy. "It was a photo of my son at five-months-old," said Gail Jordan. "I could not believe it"
Sadly, this does not surprise me. I'm not sure what has happened over the last half century or so, but a naked child is no longer seen as cute -- it's considered pornographic. I think our children's childhood is suffering because of it. Not to mention our children's twenty-first birthday parties.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
6-29-2008 @ 8:16PM
Jen said...This story was actually already posted on Friday...
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6-29-2008 @ 9:35PM
Inger said...I thought I was experiencing de ja vu!
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6-30-2008 @ 3:10PM
Judy said...This is crazy, and I admit a little scary. We have plenty of innocent pictures of our children in various stages of undress, and now I'm terrified to let anyone see them for fear of being viewed in the wrong light. Where do we draw the line?
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