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Ok. Let's make it clear. I agree with FloNight. There is no verifiable source for any informations about "LS Studio". The only information we have is about a child porn ring shutted down in Ukraine. Unless somebody can provide verifiable and reliable source for this studio work, this article has not his place in Wikipedia. I agree for a AfD as WP:V and WP:RS. -- Sam67fr 20:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC) These arguments are valid. None of the referenced articles mention LS Studio by name. And since the actual verifiable output of LS Studio is possibly illegal to verify, it seems that as far as Wikipedia is concerned, LS Studio did not exist. This is unfortunate, because regardless of the controversial nature of LS Studio, it did exist.
The raids were conducted after a joint investigation between Ukrainian police and Interpol. Subsequently after initial raids, several other child pornography studios were closed in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Lviv. [7] In 2005, the United States Department of State announced that there was further cooperation between Ukrainian police and other law enforcement agencies internationally. [7] The Crime Investigation Department of the Ministry for the Interior conducted the raids. The deputy head of the department, Vitaly Yarema, said that the bank accounts of the agency, containing hundreds of thousands of dollars, had been frozen. [1] Profits of the agency amounted to millions of dollars. [8] In 2005, according to part 3 of Art. 301 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ("import, manufacture, sale and distribution of pornographic items"), the organizer of the agency "Alex Model" faced a sentence of 3 to 7 years in prison. [12]I'll end with an opinion. I'm no legal expert on porn and stuff, but some scenes look like masturbation, and I bet those would be child porn in a lot of places. I haven't heard that the FBI has arrested anyone for owning a big LS collection, but news reports skip that sort of detail. 194.177.100.34 17:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC) What are you asking for here? Yes this article will be held to a higher standard than a lot of them are because of the subject matter, which is highly controversial. Controversial things are obviously going to get more scruitany. And no, you can't ask someone to verify something by looking at illrgal material, nor can first-hand observation of such material be a source. -- DanielCD 18:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC) I removed this on the grounds there is no ref, and it has been questioned. I'm not saying it's wrong, but could someone find a ref and cite it before you replace it? I appreciate you're cooperation in understanding these things, right or wrong, still need refs. Thanks. -- DanielCD 03:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC) Then you could identify and list the themes and topics that the LS phenomenon involves and relates to (with links to other Wiki entries which explain them in more detail). All of these are highly emotive and hotly contested, so how can you possibly deal with this in the factual and neutral manner of an encyclopedia? By typing: "These issues are highly emotive and hotly contested". On the definition of 'child pornography', for example: Please do not reinsert it. Ah, the Wikimedia Foundation is also getting a lot of complaints about it. David.Monniaux 07:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Thanks for your attention to this article. Some observations: This entire article reads like it was compiled from chatter in the preteen girl newsgroups of a year ago. The ukrainian news sources cited are not themselves objective and may be considered propoganda of the ruling elite.
Should the article perhaps explain how LS studios is different from say somebody like David Hamilton? Because as it is now I really can't see why LS was raided when compared to David Hamilton's work?? Although I could be slightly superfical here in viewing the work of each of them. Really, the only thing the article gets right is the girls wore beautiful costumes and were photographed in and out of these clothes. From a culturally pertinent POV there was nothing indecent about the photos, and the only girls who simulated kissing and fondling were older and the behavior was entirely age appropriate (no matter how this might offend some, the fact remains 12, 13 and 14 year olds know about sex and are curious about it - and a great many are also quite sexually active). First of all, I don't think that an article about a photo studio in the Ukraine needs to be held to a higher standard than internationally nororous works that have famously promoted anti-Semitism. You need to get perspective. Please contribute if you have additional information. I plan on adding more in time. Zebruh 05:09, 29 November 2005 (UTC) Pornography studio operated out of Kharkiv under disguise of a children modeling agency]. rusawm.com (in Russian). 8 December 2004. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008 . Retrieved 5 February 2006.Get the latest photography news straight to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter. Newsletter Signup Unencyclopedic: I do not see anything at Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not which supports the claim that a list of productions is unencyclopedic. An Insight into Child Porn". WikiLeaks. February 2002. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011 . Retrieved 20 February 2011.
I've removed the label "child pornography" because it implies depictions of sexual acts, which are not present in LS content. Ukrainian child porn ring". crime-research.org. Computer Crime Research Center. 13 August 2004. Archived from the original on 5 January 2006 . Retrieved 4 February 2006. Came across this here, has a bunch of interesting info (although don't worry, no pictures there! lol). Might perhaps add this to the wiki article, such as the pay (10 to 40 dollars per hour, that sounds very very good to me if you are living in the former USSR!!) Despite extensive surveillance and eventually the arrest of various "Alex Model" employees across Ukraine, the legal outcome was lenient. Most involved were given suspended sentences. Alexander N. was held several months in a pre-trial detention center and was released. [8] [13] See also [ edit ]The agency's operations spanned several cities in Ukraine. They would regularly advertise on TV, in local newspapers and radio, calling for children with a "model appearance". Parents, believing in opportunities for their children, brought in their kids, and the agency's workers would create explicit content. [3] Operating predominantly in Kyiv with branches in cities like Kharkiv and Simferopol, the agency, named "Alex Model" ( Ukrainian: Алекс-Модел), was identified as one of the major producers and distributors of child pornographic content which was branded under several names throughout the world using "LS" abbreviature as LS-Models, LS-Magazine, LS-Girls, LS-Studio, LS-Island, LS-Land, LS-Dreams, LSMODELCLUB (LS Model Club). The leaders attracted minors with the prospect of modeling opportunities, only to involve them in illicit activities. [2] I have been especially impressed by Wikipedia's core values and guidelines of conduct. Respect is extremely important to me. It is ridiculous to compare the work of LS-Studios that of the pornography industry. So called soft-core porn is classified as such based upon the parts of the body visible and what those body parts are doing. The premise how ever is the same throughout. They pit females in degrading roles subject to phallic fornications. Its end is a restrained prostitution. If it is something other than this it is traditionally classified as art. LS captures the sexuality of young girls professionally and tastefully. The attention to the entertainment value does not detract from it as an artistic work. Familiarity with art or smut does not factor into the premise of objections only arguments of objectors. Threat is perceived from girls sexuality, from the fact that they can be and are naked without embarrassment, from an approach to presenting sexuality that is based on beauty rather than vulgarity, and fear of a denuded inadequacy in the American justice system namely the FBI and its prior standing errors.
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