Is this acceptable?!

What is wrong with this world when it is okay, no, acceptable to have a teen's website feature seven nude men and a half naked woman?

This story was just shown on my local news and I'm appalled that we are letting corporations get away with this. Gilly Hicks is a company of Abercrombie & Fitch, which doesn't surprise me, as A&F has become known for their risque photo shoots.

Now, before I sound like an old dinosaur, this Southern Housewife once had a closet full of Abercrombie. During my junior and senior years of high school (1998 (my gosh, I'm old!)) and through a lot of my sorority days, that is all that kids wore. Since my taste in clothing has progressed, I've noticed a drastic decline in A&F's marketing campaign. They did not used to be like this back when I shopped there. Not that I would have cared, being the stubborn, know-it-all 19 year old that I was. But now I can recognize that this borders on pornography.

No. I take that back. This is pornography.

My niece is 7 years old and is very proficient with the computer. Of course the only places she goes to online is Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. But what if a pop up of these naked men suddenly appeared? Would I want my precious niece thinking that this is what our world is like?

And even though I blurred the top picture, I can tell you that this lovely, half-naked young lady is playfully touching the men on either side of her.

Playfully. Touching.

As in, "It's OK to be a teen and touch a grown man's behind. No one objects, so it must be fine."

Children and teens who frequent websites like these begin to think that this is the norm. They become desensitized to images of nudity and promiscuity. Pretty soon, sex is no big deal. It's something they show on TV, and in movies, and at the place where we buy our clothes.

I don't have children, and I don't mean to come off as an uptight fuddy-duddy, but I am an observer of this world, and I just don't like what I see sometimes. I'm beginning to think the world has gone mad, and that Americans are right behind it. I guess that's what happens when you cross over that magical age of 25 and every other sentence out of your mouth is, "Why are those boy's jeans so darn tight?!" or "Do they have to play their awful music so loudly?" You become more aware of what is right and what is painfully wrong. (And I think you get just a smidge more cranky!)

If you feel compelled to write this company, as I have, and plead with them to get this trash off the Internet, or in the very least, make sure their is some parental warning that pops up before they can view, click here and go to "contact us":

I would hope and pray that they listen to concerned parents. (After all, it is with the parent's money that these children are buying these clothes.) But I won't hold my breath. After all, this is the same company that peddles this...

in their children's clothing line.