Miley Cyrus' "NAKED pictures" in Vanity Fair........

well, as everyone knows, miley cyrus posed for pictures for vanity fair, with and without her father. now everyone is in a HUGE uproar saying that they are too provocative, too sexy, too "exposed", too old for her, that now she is a bad influence, that she is going the way of all the teenage celeb sluts. and on and on and on. as usual. what a puritan society we live in!! and while i'm NOT advocating it and saying it's the best thing ever, ONLY because of her very young fans, i'm also not a prude, freaking out over a 15 year old girl ENTIRELY covered by a sheet! all you can see in the photo's is her upper back!! not a hint of a breast! not any stomach, not any ass, not anything but back!! have we NOT seen her back in perhaps a tank top or something else?? and no, i don't watch the girl or her show, but i've seen her around. and i know i've seen her a FEW times in skin skin tight pants. doesn't that offend everyone as well? i would think a camel toe would be waaaay more offensive than shoulder blades!!
while i agree that i'm sick and tired of EVERY star and young star especially, and basically everyone in magazines, TV, films, the music industry, all media and so on, (even young girls walking around in the world in general. older girls and women too,) ALL having to end up being about sex.......and i hate to say it, but that is the world we live in and we ALL well know....... sex sells!!! and sells VERY well!! our media is FULL of sex. and we all buy it and view it and basically condone it, so we can't pick and choose when it's convenient to us. i'm also for freedom of speech, the press and people doing what they want, though i don't always agree with the choices by a long shot. i'm wondering why people are so upset about it or think that it's so wrong?
is it because of what everyone was saying on the news and the morning shows? or because you are truly offended?
it IS a sexy shot, but it is also an art shot, annie liebowitz does that stuff all the time and has been for years, hello naked, pregnant demi moore? which also had people in an uproar. OH MY GOD, a naked, pregnant woman!! how horrifying!! and our corneas weren't burnt off? small wonder.
in miley's pics you can't see ANYTHING. yes, it's meant to allude to naked under a sheet or sexiness, but it's by far the tamest "sexy" shot i've seen of ANY teenage star! she is also a developing, hormonal teenager who is NOT a little girl anymore. and she didn't regret it at all (nor did her parents or handlers) until all the backlash and now she's groveling out apologies left and right. and so is annie liebowitz. not to mention, as you know, her parents, and adult handlers were all at the shoot and saw all the proofs and approved them. little girls grow up and WANT to be a little sexy. NOTHING was shown. but i also am NOT happy w/everything having to be about sex. but what about the pics of britney on the cover of rolling stone when she was what? 16? and lindsey too, in all her various stages of undress. and i DO think that miley is very grounded and has full family support and complete involvement with her life and career, so unlike other child stars and won't end up like those other trainwrecks that only care about marketing their kids.
so i'm torn on where i stand. i know everyone is all pissed off because of her young children fans, BUT that is why it's not in tiger beat or whatever. what little kids read vanity fair? and once again, as always it is up to the PARENTS to censor what their kids see, watch and are exposed to.
what i find most disturbing of all is the violence that is ALL over the TV, video games, movies, commercials, magazines, everywhere and everyone seems to be soooo cool w/all of that. we see heads blown off (in iraq alone! supreme violence sanctioned by OUR country) and blood and gore and unspeakable things constantly, but hey, who cares about that? it's all fine. but god forbid anyone ever knows about bodies or sex!!
every kid i've ever seen is allowed to play violent video games and fake kill each other and watch violent cartoons and movies but the SECOND there is sex or a hint of sex shown they are all forbidden. why is that?? and THAT is why the kids today are sucking dicks in bathrooms in junior highs and everything else. #1 because of the parents who let them see everything and/or #2 because it is sooo taboo that of course they are gonna run out and mess around with anything that's kept from them. only a few fools run out and actually kill each other because it's daily fare for them, they are used to it. it's not kept from them.
but i don't EVER hear or see parents in an uproar over ANYTHING violent and the second someone's shoulders are shown, it's a disgrace. look at the janet jackson/superbowl debacle. those kids were all allowed to watch men ram and slam each other and be ultra aggressive and yet to see ONE boob, holy mother of god!! didn't they see boobs when they were breastfed? or even when their mother was naked at some point in the home? and yet people were protesting and saying how that one breast scarred and ruined their children for life! a breast? really? a breast is a god given thing. the human body is beautiful and natural and meant to be appreciated. whereas violence is NOT. violence was created by man, but that all seems to be cool. seems pretty backwards to me. how twisted everything has become.......