According to an Aug. 3 article by the United Kingdom's Press Association, a movement is underway in Great Britain to ban the use of airbrushing and other forms of photographic manipulation in advertisements that are designed for young consumers.
The effort, proponents say, is intended to help offset body-image problems that some believe are the result of unrealistic beauty standards established by manipulated photographs.
"We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image of beauty -- it's a lofty ambition but it's important to make a start." Member of Parliament Jo Swinson said in the Press Association article. "It's part of our culture now but it's a very damaging culture. It's not even as though these airbrushed images are attainable -- it's not how they look."
Swinson's proposal is slated to be discussed in further during a Liberal Democrats' conference in September.
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