Thinspiration Videos: Promotion or Deterrence

 
Disturbing images and videos are now everywhere available on the internet. Art, exploitation, disturbing celebration - we seem to have come a long way from the shock at heroin chic first seen in Nan Goldin's widespread Vogue spread decades ago. There are now production companies which proliferate these videos. Granted on youtube there are the occasional comments vilifying the proliferation of these videos but more often the videos and web sites seem to be an outright celebration of anorexia. To any sane healthy person the images are incredibly disturbing but to young impressionable minds the images are glamorous and encourage unhealthy body image among our young. And by the way they aren't limited to women although the great majority are female images but there is even male thinspo.

www.myhamptons.us - kara

Comments

[melissa]

The most disturbing websites I have heard about recently were those focusing on how to "perfect the art of anorexia".....tips on how to better starve yourself - I watched an interview with a teenage anorexic who said she was inspired by the sites and learned great techniques to hide her illness and to sustain on very few calories...and how she aspired to look like some of the anorexic pictures of other members posted on the sites!!! Sick on so many levels!