Dear (ahem) Invisible Pervert
You are right to be concerned because there is nothing more ugly and damning than [censored] porn. But I personally think you needn't worry in this case.
Yulia is certainly a young woman, but no girl and definitely no [censored] . But that depends on the definition and nobody knows anything for sure.
Appearance can be deceptive (breast development is no reliable guide, as you said) but that works in both directions. She looks immature but she will continue to do so for quite some time to come because she has the very round face of a true Russian beauty. She might not be 18 yet but in my opinion she is certainly older than 16.
Someone said that her not being legal might be the reason for the reluctant distribution from the Japanese side. But legal in Japan, in the US or in Europe are very different things. Remember the big SCORE feature when Linsey turned 18 and appeared in the US showing pink and all. She had already modelled for the UK tabloids for quite some time before that and nobody cared. She looked to young, too...
Here is another shot of Laetita Casta in on of her first high profile appearances in Marie Claire (the first women's mag I ever bought). She doesn't look exactly legal either.
There is a certain air of hysteria surrounding all Yulia issues. One factor is the weirdness of the whole affair and another one is the sinister quality of contemporary Russia. But first, Russia is not Rwanda and second, I don't think that a ring of girl-traffickers would display their wares in the internet. (Did you think of Belgium as anarchic and evil? Again, the door swings in both directions.) Rest assured that the international experts for prosecuting these crimes scan the net to the very bottom and Yulia is glaringly visible.
This won't convince you because it is all opinion. If your consciousness demands that you don't keep and look at Yulia images, that is your decision and a very responsible one. But I honestly don't feel guilty at all. I expect her to explode on the covers of all mags pretty soon. She will grow and mature, possible before our eyes, like Linsey. She might become the biggest, most beautiful and exciting natural model of all times. I wish her to succeed, to earn more money with modelling her skin than Cindy Crawford earned with modelling useless fashion. At that point the net will be awash with certified, legal (apart from the bootlegging and copyright infringing) images.
I can't wait.
Yours, TT
[ October 27, 2001: Message edited by: Tom Taylor ]