Wow, that's crazy.

Thanks, that is interesting! Poor lady.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2946068/The-teenager-never-g row-19-year-old-looks-like-young-child-rare-condition-affecting-growth -hormones.html
Aware this is an old thread, but I am assuming this hasn't been posted. Brings another perspective to things.

She's like a dwarf-version of Danielle Harris, who played teens until her 30s, fairly convincingly.
Also, look at this clip from the movie Freaks with Harry Earles as Hans.
Or do a Google Image search.

Yes, there would be a lot wrong with it if it was done deliberately with no regard for privacy. If you can't see the extreme inappropriateness of someone like Esther being treated with such disrespect by a male adult, you're a pitiful creature.

Exactly wakan, weren't they amazing effects??

But she didn't really stop aging. Once she take of the make up (hiding her pours, wrinkles etc) & removed the false teeth (to hide her adult ones), she pretty much looked her real age. Also, she was binding her breasts, so she did go through puberty.
The claim that "without her makeup, false teeth, & chest binding, she looked much older" was
definitely
Hollywood special effects at work, because the
actress
who
played
Esther was a little younger than age 12 at the time that the movie
finished filming
.
IF I want your opinion, I'll GIVE it to you.

This whole thread is hilarious.
'SOMEONE was molested as a child!'
Seriously though, come on. Nothing at all wrong with a dad seeing his nine year old daughter naked. I suspect you are trolling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fjZi9aSHsM/

I guess the same way an adult can continuously ACT like a child.
Oh Thank you God! Thank you so
BLOODY
much!
Basil Fawlty

I don't "need" to tell most others to hide their bodies, in fact it's illegal in most areas to display them; guess we haven't overcome that Puritanical hurdle.

You are confusing your unwilingless to show your naked body to others with need for everyone to hide their bodies. you not wanting to show your body is fine - you can hide it all you want. you have no business telling others to hide it, however.
Resistance is impolite, Friendship is mandatory.

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LMAO Bigotry of what, inappropriate weirdness and no boundaries like the dumbass wight supports? Cute, hypocrite.

Well said. That whitespirit dude has got an agenda and spammed his bigotry on many posts here.

Divorce rates went up as divorce became legal and easy.
People didn't used to get divorced as much because they either separated or lived in unhappy marriages. That we now have a more honest and tolerant approach to the end of relationships is a good thing, not a bad thing.
The US has more of a lot of things because we're a larger country.
All this tells me is that you don't understand how statistics work.

Divorce rates by and large went up after sex became considered less important and the body, especially the female one, less sacred. The US has more of a lot of things because we're a larger country.

ook at our divorce rates, our kids having sex, where 14 is now actually more common, where PP workers try to steer kids into their way of thinking, and where some don't blink when a nurse gets an abortion on camera and acts like it's no big thing
Yes, look at those statistics.
Actually look
at that.
Look at which regions are have the worst statistics in these areas. Look at what policies and cultural changes might be responsible.
You may surprise yourself. They're worse in areas where sexual puritanism is allowed to infect teaching and state policy.

Look at our divorce rates, our kids having sex, where 14 is now actually more common, where PP workers try to steer kids into their way of thinking, and where some don't blink when a nurse gets an abortion on camera and acts like it's no big thing. The reason we NEED so much sex ed is because hookups are now considered fine and normal. Hate to tell you, but things aren't so grand marriage-wise in other countries, either.

That's factually incorrect.
Liberal attitudes to sexual education actually decrease STD spread, teenager pregnancy (and thus abortion) and actually increase the average age at which people have sex.
Whereas 'traditional' right-leaning approaches to sexual education (aka abstinence only education) does the exact opposite.
This general trend can be seen be contrasting continental Europe with the states. Continental Europe is significantly more liberal and tolerant than the USA, yet the USA has terrible problems with teenage pregnancy and STD spread.
Yet some Americans think they can take the high ground because at least they don't have an accepting attitude towards such things as same-sex relationships or casual sex. It's rank hypocrisy that should have died out with the Victorians.

"The western world is moving towards a 'liberal' society where people have to justify their moral condemnation in terms of how it actually hurts people.."
Yeah, where they're too dim to see long-term affects like increased divorce rates, pregnant and unhappy teens, disintegration in family. No harm at all.

The problem is that when you talk about 'moral integration' you don't mean genuine morality, at least not terms of rational ethical philosophy.
Casual sex and/or non-standard romantic relationships are not incompatible with strongly held moral convictions and principles. It's not the sort of thing that clashes with Utilitarian moral philosophy (for example).
It does clash with people's whose moral outlook is based largely on societal norms and taboos, which is to say with people whose morality is not grounded in reasoned argument from principles or central guiding values.
And, yeah, I guess society is moving away from the latter. The western world is moving towards a 'liberal' society where people have to justify their moral condemnation in terms of
how it actually hurts people
rather than just their own subjective emotional reactions to particular acts.
It's a world where small-minded bigotry about alternative lifestyles is increasingly not tolerated but that's not moral disintegration, it's moral progress.
Keep your baseless knee-jerk emotive judgements. I'm happy with actually caring about other people's welfare and making reasoned moral judgements based on that.

Less hang-ups about our bodies has helped lead to more loose sex-lives, "open relationships" and general moral disintegration.

LOL That's right, I don't parade around naked because I just hate my body.
Personally, I think that it's all fine as long as you're not hurting anyone. If you feel embarrassed or shy about other people seeing you naked, even in a non-sexual context, then that's just your quirk and it's all good. I'm sure that you can lead a healthy and fulfilled life with that quirk.
However, there's no advantage in it over not having those feelings.
If I was to try to judge one as being better than the other, then I'd definitely go with the one that evidences less hang-ups about our bodies.