In return NZGirl would donate a sum of money to breast cancer research. The whole campaign has generated a lot of controversy as New Zealand's online community have pointed out that asking young women to post their pictures is unsafe and a gratuitous use of others' suffering.
The magazine's editor defended the campaign, saying that it prompted awareness and encouraged many women to have their breasts checked. With allegations that the pictures have ended up on at least one porn site NSFW obviously and with pictures found elsewhere on the net the whole episode has generated huge publicity for NZGirl magazine.
As dumb as this stunt it, how is it unsafe? I'm assuming the magazine was smart enough to strip EXIF gps data off the images, and breast-recognition technology is still in an infantile state.
Looks like their plan Perhaps next they could sponsor a topless club event for breast cancer. How about explicit shots of genitalia for ovarian cancer?
Someone should break it to these people that inviting young readers to be exploited is not sanitized by sending some money to a campaign to fight lethal diseases. My problem with this is largely the rating -- I am bisexual and so I wanted to see naked pictures of what I considered to be hot women, but when I was about twelve or thirteen I also really wanted to see naked pictures of other "regular" women so that I could get a sense of whether or not I was normal or if I was a freak in some way.
