occupational hazard

A portion of my job involves photo editing for some big ass websites. An assignment I'm working on today requires finding images of tween girls who emulate celebrities to an extreme. The hook is that these stars are not necessarily the best role models. Some of the text I'm working from is rather cut and dry so I've been finding pictures through my regular sources quite easily. However, I seem to have hit a snag on the last one. The editorial calls for a young girl who dresses like Britney Spears. This was the assigning editor's polite way of saying she needs a 12-year-old who looks like a cheap whore. I've got my work cut out for me.

Searching via keyword on stock photo sites is a fine art. I can't search for "dresses like Britney Spears" because I won't get any results. The sites' search algorithms just don't work that way. I'm taking great pains to execute relatively harmless Boolean searches so that I don't end up on some pedophile watch list. Do you know how hard it is to think up legal-sounding synonyms for "slutty-looking tween"?

Won't it be an interesting day in the offices of Corbis, Getty and PictureQuest the next time they check their logs? Actually, thanks to this post, the logs for my site will get pretty foul too. As it is -- and as I predicted -- a lot of individuals curious about foot fetishes have been dropping by recently. Good God, what have I done?