TEENAGERS are being lured into posing for depraved internet porn pictures after being told they could become supermodels.

A website, Slut City - which promises viewers that every girl on the site will be under the age of 19 - has managed to entice several A-level students from Preston onto its lurid page, persuading them to reveal all for hundreds of pounds.

The students then use the cash to buy flash cars or clothes.

They were first put in touch with the site after meeting people in local nightclubs, who passed on the details of the photographers who create the images for the web site.

One of the girls - who is almost 18, a fact which is flagged up on the website - spoke to the Citizen about her life as a porn star, saying she posed for the pictures, but was shocked to see how they were used.

She said: "I thought they were only mucking around because I had some quite decent pictures taken. They said I had potential.

"But when I saw them on the web site, at a friend's house, I was appalled because everything was on view.

"The thought of people leering at them absolutely appals me. The captions are so crass I find it hard to believe they did it." The explicit site, which contains dozens of swear words and is littered with vulgar innuendo, can easily be accessed by anyone using the net, including children, who may stumble across the page by mistake because the word 'free' appears in the blurb promoting the site.

Once on the site, viewers are urged to think about having sex with teenagers and are invited to look at different categories of girls.

The site has appalled Preston's moral campaigners.

A spokesman for the Clean Up Preston Campaign said: "This is deeply immoral and wrong. People who do this should be totally ashamed."

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