Nude photos standard fare in German teen magazine

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, September, 2006 | by "We try to deal with [sex] as something normal

Sandra, 16, looks coyly up from the magazine, wearing a black choker and nothing else. Boyfriend Elias, 18, grins from the opposite page, also pictured fully in his natural state. "Tell me, why do you love each other?" reads the headline. And the young couple tells why - and, explicitly, how. Sell this in America, and risk a long sentence for child pornography.

But this is nothing illicit. It's Bravo, the most popular teenage magazine in Germany and one of the most widely read general-interest youth publications in Europe. Target reader age: 10 and up. Sandra's parents gave permission for her to pose nude. Her spread comes in the same issue as a free sheet of fake tattoos, a feature about Harry Potter, and an exclusive report on the German boy band currently making girls...