It sure seems like it with this quote NYT Deputy Editor Jim Schachter gave to Clark Hoyt while discussing the controversial photos of underage model Ali Michael which appeared on in The Times fashion magazine:

I told Schachter I was disturbed that The Times would place a teenager in a “sexualized context,” a term he did not disagree with. “We’re well past the point in our culture when there is a bright line that separates sexually charged images of men and women just short of 18 from art,” he said.

Read the whole piece, Schachter isn’t the only person at the The Times with some

Are we? Are we well past the point in our culture where adults can draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable? Where we can say “This is the age where women model nude!” or admit that even if the 17 year old girl, who looks much younger, were legal that men Schachters age should still be a little uncomfortable ogling girls who are young enough to be his grand daughter?

It’s no wonder The Times is losing readership.

h/t Newsbusters