Shirtless high school wrestling poster raises concern; photographer says hubbub unwarranted

A poster featuring Norwalk High School wrestlers posing shirtless in firefighter gear has raised concerns among some parents in the Des Moines suburb.

Parent Danielle Lynn posted an image of the wrestling team poster on Facebook last week, saying it both sexualizes teenagers and is an example of the double standard that exists between male and female students.

"Could you imagine the outrage had a girls’ team dressed in bikinis and taken a team photo?" she wrote. "This makes me so uncomfortable as a parent. ... The sexualizing of children and teenagers needs to stop.”

The post generated more than two dozen replies mostly supporting Lynn's comments.

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