The Tiger Underwear website that month featured a link titled “You Can’t Show Boys Underwear Pictures!” But in these photos, the boys were joined by a young man, also clad only in underwear. On the “Men’s Underwear” page, I found more pictures of the pillow fight. The images included two boys in their underwear having a pillow fight on a bed. There was also a series of links to pictures. When I clicked on the tab that said “Boy’s Underwear,” a looping video appeared of two boys in their underwear wrestling on a floor. His jeans are sagged to reveal the white briefs he’s wearing underneath. He wears a red stocking cap and a pendant necklace and holds a skateboard. On the front page of the Tiger Underwear website, a shirtless boy, head cocked, stares into the camera. That trip through the “Wayback Machine” reveals what Dorn likely saw in 2009.

But you can still find cached web pages from that time by doing a search, as I did, of, which captures and archives web history. In fact, since I began reporting this story, the company's website stopped featuring boy models altogether. Tiger Underwear’s website looks much different today than it did in January 2009. The catalog pages are not like anything I’ve ever seen on an ad or packaging,” Dorn wrote. “If anyone is not completely concerned about this ‘job’ by reading what is written here – feel free to visit.

One of the first to comment was Paula Dorn, co-founder of BizParentz Foundation, a Los Angeles area nonprofit created to support families of children in the entertainment industry. The ad was soon posted to a message board hosted by the casting website, along with a warning: “Child actor alert!” The ad promised “A-level” models $450 for a day’s work, but it emphasized: “IMPORTANT! You must have no compunctions about doing modeling in only underwear briefs in order to do this work, since that will be an important aspect of the photos to be generated for this job.” The ad was posted by a company calling itself RWE Productions and said the shoot was for a client called Tiger Underwear, a company based in University Place, Washington. In January 2009, an ad appeared on Craigslist seeking “BOYS ONLY Ages 7 to 14” for a modeling shoot in Waterville, Maine.

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