Victoria's Secret has posted a campaign featuring a model with Down syndrome. Is this inclusivity something to be celebrated? Exploitative? Something else?

From this article, Sofia Jirau is described as being Victoria Secret’s first model with Down syndrome. I’m all for people following their dreams and not letting disabilities hold them back. That said, there’s something that feels wrong to me and I think it revolves around sexuality and consent.

It is my understanding that people with intellectual disabilities can’t consent to sexual activities (but I could be wrong about this). There is something inherently sexualized about a model wearing underwear in a photo shoot, and that’s where I get uneasy about this concept.

Maybe I’m looking at this wrong, and I haven’t fully worked through all of the implications here, but I can’t shake an uneasy feeling about this one. What do you guys think?