Excellent comment by Integr8d! The only thing I would like to add is to the part where little Suzy bounces this off her friends. The internet is full of her "friends" that will agree that this is cool. Even if they're a minority they're actually the only people actively discussing the subject, so she will find more encouragement to starve herself than not to. If she has a healthy social life, it's unlikely she will even consider starving herself.

All the more reason for teaching people to think for themselves and giving them the information to make educated choices. The interest groups on the net always have and always will promote their own thinking and their own "facts" - it's up to the reader to decide it's merits.


And neither archive.org or google.com have backups of it. There is another article on the issue at France 24:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080416-french-mps-approve-law-crackdown-pro-ana-websites-france-health&navi=FRANCE

I meet Claudia Christian once. On TV she is a very attractive woman. In person, well she looked like she was days away from death by starvation. Extreme thinness is more dangerous than being overweight, due to the damage starvation causes to your body.

I'm not sure that the French legislation will help, but one can hope.


Maybe not for the tastes of most of us. But is the French government also going to step in and shut all the pro-Fat/Bigger is Beautiful/More-cushion-for-the-pushin'/Crush my knees and back, under 600lbs (kilo conversion, please) of weight websites? While they're at it, maybe they should risk the lawsuits and shut down some pro-Scientology sites. Oh, don't forget people who's favorite color is fuschia. They're the worst...

In my opinion, people have a right to express whatever they want. They can suffer all the public ridicule that they want. But it shouldn't be the place of our governments to decide what we can and cannot see. We should have the freedom and assume the responsibility of the paths we choose. The girl is right; Point your browser elsewhere, if you don't like it.

People have been trained to accept the big brother/big nanny role of their governments. They don't realize that it's the society (the people) that are the litmus test for sites like this. If little Suzy sees this, she'll bounce it off her friends. Most likely, her friends will tell her it's nuts. If not, if she and they have a natural propensity for self-starvation, the parents should take note and intervene. If not, community members should become aware and voice opposition to the family for its lack of guidance. If not then, the society has a larger problem than self-starvation. The society will likely not prosper or even possibly survive many generations. 

It begs a few questions about starving nations. Why are they starving? How long have they been this way? How did they make it this long? Why do the people not relocate to more hospitable locations? Government barriers, perhaps?

Yes It was deleted. Thank you TheInq to shed light on this kind of sickos.

Nonetheless, I hope this won't stop there. She deserved to be punished.

The URL for the french bog you guys provided yesterday seems no longer available. My french is no good but I think it says: "this used decided to delete his account and therefore this bog is unavailable" or something to that effect.

Maybe the poor, sickly girl commited suicide for the good of mankind. Or maybe she just went to have a snack and started to work on having a proper life again.

raskolnikov

There are few people who I actually reserve bile-filled hatred and pro-ana types are one of them. My cousin killed herself because of attitudes like theirs. They're sick, they need psychological help.

So I take it that these girls have take womens intuition to the next level. I imagine a lot of people will end up starving thanks to the surge in food prices.

... is that these people are troubled enough already to be causing their bodies trauma and by applying more pressure and mis/non-understanding from people like those who wrote this article and in government and pretty much the world at large will only make their cases worse.

The reason why these sites work (and it's not recruiting people to become anorexic because that just doesn't really happen it's like saying that people can be made to be gay - which, in a less understanding age, has been said) is that they provide a support network for the anorexic people that they genuinely don't get in their lives. 
It's the equivalent of the Alocoholics Anonymous combined with internet forums so it becomes a bit like a club.

Unfortunately, the psychiatrists who are supposed to help generally don't because they don't understand each person who goes to see them about this problem (their specific problems that cause the disorder) and the methods that have been described to me by anorexic people i've known that the psychiatrists/psychologists use really make me laugh.

The way to help these people is to accept their problems and address these. Then the anorexia will lessen in their minds - if not stop for the mean time. It will never go away because their ability to control their life through food (or lack of it) is an established thought process and will be waiting for them with open arms whenever life is tough.... just like any coping mechanism.

Again, unfortunately, people outside this circle of knowledge see the evil as the anorexia but that disorder is just a symptom - not the problem.

It is sad but she will be dead or hospitalized soon. Just like with all the other sites that spew hate speech or other propaganda and child porn we need better legislation to remove and prosecute the authors of such internet sites. 

There needs to be a balance between free speech, the right to privacy and dealing with sites that promote violence or suicide(by starvation or otherwise).

That's just disgusting. It looks like a Auschwitz.

Think this pro-ana business is messed up?

Ever heard of this nutter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen

@James

omg, way to disrupt a perfectly good mobbing with a windy and well-written argument!

I think we should not only ban and close these sites down: in order for us to rid our society of these sociopathic webadmins we have to round them up and force feed them hot dogs until their tummies explode. Publically, of course.

Come on guys, link this site, the rantings are so messed up it sounds like a laugh! 

How much you want to bet that all these girls are single?!