“You Don’t Feel Degraded In Any Way, Right?” Inside "Pantytime" At American Apparel

By Irin Carmon | February 18, 2010 | 8:30pm

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Is a new YouTube video of an American Apparel underwear shoot intentionally trying to defuse criticisms of the company’s ad campaigns? Or, you know, just providing masturbation fodder featuring disarmingly young-looking women in see-through lingerie. Whatever.

The video is of a photo shoot with three young women trying out various cutesy-seductive poses. When one gets down on all all fours beneath two standing models, a female voice — possibly the stylist, or the photographer, who is identified as Mae, asks,”You don’t feel degraded in any way, right?” The model shakes her head.