to object to the term 'glamour model?'

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OK, I'm aware I'm probably going to sound like a Daily Mail ranting version of my mother, but I'm becoming increasingly irritated by this term being bandied about. Isn't it just soft porn, basically? Glamorised, to make it sound like a desirable ambition for girls without too much up top - that'll be up top in the brains department, not the boobs.

Bah!

nobody said they shouldn't have the right to choose. That's a bit of a strawman. The discussion is about whether it's a good choice for them personally, and society generally.

and that is your perogitive, you are perfectly entitled to your opinions, just like everyone else is.

Personally, I am proud that I took the opportunity to work in a way that meant I could not only financially support my son and still bring him up myself. Of course, it was boring, (which was why I gave it up when my son got older) but no more borng than working on the checkouts at Asda would have been, and certainly more morally encompassing that sitting on my arse all day claiming benefits.

Whether it is a godo chocie for them personally depends on their circumstances and personality really. There are girls who get exploited, but then women get exploited in all sorts of jobs.

What I object to is women who think all girls who work as glamour models are th same, and all are 'fake, plastic bimbos' without a brain cell between then, when they have probably never seen a glamour model other than those in the mainstream press/tabloids, and most of those women only started having surgery once they became famous.

I don't think all glamour models are thick, just unimaginative and lazy.

many glamour models do have a certain homogenous look and aren't usually modelling in understated make up garments

maybe there are some pretty au naturel glam models,but hell that's not the projected image

way back in my day it was Linda Lusardi who was the top glamour girl.She certainly was not thick, and was very beautiful. She has clearly stayed the pace , and done very well for herself.

I have just had a look out of interest at her recent pics on the net.She looks amazing very naturel and very classy. So the glamour modelling world was not too shabby for linda.Wish I knew her beauty secrets.

Would I swap my size 16 ( -ish) body, comfortable marital status, kids and state of wealth with Jordan?

Not in a million YEARS.

None of this is about jealousy. I'm saddened to think that so many girls really aspire to the WAG lifestyle. As someone said earlier, who'd swap places with Toni Terry right now? Or Jordan, come to that?

What have we come to? I probably lead a dull life in some people's view. Don't go clubbing, don't drive a flash car, don't nip to Dubai for holidays and flash diamonds about. But I'm truly content with my life. I think it's very sad that young girls feel that shagging a footballer and making large sums of money by flashing their tits (and more) is going to make them happy.

As midori stated there are many different personality types in the glamour industry.Amazingly ,some will not want to shag a footballer or be famous, they may view it as a lucrative job, and why not.Thet earn decent money and it is their chosen career.

I think possibly a bigger problem than The SLippery SLope To Porn (which is not the worst thing in the world anyway) is the general exploitation of the poor by the entertainment industry. More and more people are being invited to parade their dysfunctions for the better-off to laugh at or feel superior to on things like The X Factor and the various Reality TV shows where some so-called expert publicly humiliates The Public into changing the way they live/eat/parent (and then, of course abandons them once the cameras stop rolling).One of the factors here is definitely money: if you are on benefits or the minimum wage, the 50 grand or whatever that you get for winning Big Brother is an unimaginable fortune that you might think is well worth the degradation, media hostility and psychological stress of being locked up for a couple of months with strangers in an enviroment that is deliberately organised to destablise and unsettle you.