Well – it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about MTV’s controversial teen drama Skins, but it seems
the network is once again toying with the hopes of giving the Parents Television Council (PTC) a coronary after it allowed several of the show’s young stars — ranging in age from 15-19 — to be photographed in their underwear for a racy new photospread in the March issue of Elle Magazine.
Six of the show’s stars demonstrate “one of spring’s key trends: innerwear as outerwear” in a feature called “After-School Special.”
The New York Daily News writes: “Half of the pictures show the cast members in various pieces of lingerie and underwear, while in the other half, they each wear additional clothing to show ‘how simple — and chic’ — it can be to turn your underthings into double-duty showpieces.”
The PTC, a media watchdog group, has already blasted the series’ content and has requested a government probe into potential violations of child pornography charges, prompting at least six advertisers to rip support from the show. The organization now says it’s just as bothered by the Skins Elle flicks as it was last November, when scandal ensued over similar snaps, featuring three stars of FOX’s Glee posing provocatively for GQ Magazine.
“We had concerns about the GQ photo shoot of ‘Glee,’ even though [that cast] was over the age of 19, because they were presenting themselves as high schoolers,” says Melissa Henson, the Director of Communications and Public Education for the Parents Television Council. “With this, even though the poses are less provocative, the fact that they have these underage girls wearing lingerie is troubling. It does contribute to the problem we’re seeing increasingly, sexualizing young girls.”
Elle’s editor-in-chief Robbie Myers responded to the PTC in a counter-statement.
“Innerwear as outerwear has been a trend for decades, and Joe Zee’s point was to make what the actors wear on their show more fashion, less vulgar. The content of Skins is infinitely more racy than anything we’d have them do. And we had the blessing of their parents: they were at the shoot.”
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