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As Britney Spears once sang, they’re not that innocent.
A group of UK teens has mobilized to ban sexed-up school uniforms from the porn industry, with support coming from local legislators.
High school students at The Cooper School in Bicester have launched a petition calling for the ban of all school uniforms in XXX videos, telling The BBC that their traditional plaid kilts and shrunken blazers have been “warped by sexualization.”
So far, the petition counts over 28,000 signatures — a respectable .05% of the entire UK population. It was created as part of the students’ Little Feminist Book Club, an after-school society.
In April, the British government OK’d a law banning adults from pretending they’re underage in skin flicks, but so far, it hasn’t been enforced.
Meanwhile, the schoolgirls helming the protest claim they can’t even walk down the street in their suburban town of Oxfordshire without getting ogled, catcalled or even followed. One 15-year-old says that the mere thought of wearing her pleated miniskirt outside of school fills her with “fear.”
“Young women and girls should not have to grow up seeing their school uniforms sexualized,” said Alex Davies-Jones, a member of Parliament who works on behalf of UK exploitation victims. “I commend these pupils for speaking out about something they feel so strongly about.”
Teeny kilts and peek-a-boo button-ups are a mainstay of adult fantasy films, with tens of thousands of “hot schoolgirl” videos available on sites like Pornhub and OnlyFans.
But the genre isn’t limited to XXX websites. Mainstream sites like Amazon boast over 600 options for “sexy schoolgirl” costumes, while trendy retailer Dolls Kill and even craft mecca Michael’s have some Rated R options. And manga comics created for adults often use ultra-sexy schoolgirls from other planets as their main characters without needing to disclose their ages — the cartoons are, after all, imaginary.
It will be difficult, if not impossible, for a schoolgirl porn crackdown to include all of these variables. But for the students at The Cooper School, raising hell to fight for safer girlhoods is a worthy start.
“This is something that makes people sexy,” 15-year-old Mae told reporters. “But I’m a child.”