Miley Cyrus poses topless for Vanity Fair--AT AGE 15!!

[Charlotte]

I don't understand the hysteria of children being 'sexualised'. Abuse is one thing, children (i use the term 'children' loosely, i am in fact referring to post-pubescents) being sexual beings and having an interest and natural curiousity about sex is another. Some may think it is wrong, but that has absolutely no impact on the reality, and furthermore that is simply an opinion, no more or less valid than the belief that it is in fact morally right (it's certainly natural, and that indisputable).

It depends on culture, of course. Colombia have an age of consent of 12, Spain has the lowest in Europe at 13, and they certainly don't think that they're immoral. To be honest i think childhood (a relatively new concept) goes on for far too long, and extended childhoods up to 18 or 21, mixed with cultural sexual ideology, can be damaging and a denial of natural, normal human behaviour. The wholesale buying of sex (the huge US porn industry, coupled with sexually provocative advertising. Sex sells because the supply responds to the demand.) and then the denial of it is so strange, a Victorian attitude. People covertly buying porn,then covering their table legs because they were considered to be 'obscene'.

Nudity does not necessarily mean 'sex' either, as i said earlier i posed naked at 15 for an art class - i sat naked , to be stared at, by a group of which the majority were men, and there was nothing sexual about it at all. I'm now 19 years old and a virgin who, if again in need of a quick and easy 50 quid, would do it again. Not because i have any discernable religious 'moral values' (i do not care what consenting adults get up to - orgies? Prostitution? Go for it, if that's what floats your boat), but rather because it holds no interest for me. Being comfortable naked, or even posing naked in front of people, does not mean that you WILL be a 'slut'.

[Grimmlok]

Posing for an art class is one thing, and last i checked one must adhere to some age of consent or have parental approval.

Posing for a magazine, pouty and sexualized at 15 (under the age of consent where the publication is distributed) is not art, has nothing to do with teaching art, and is (with the rest of the 'leaks') a cheap attention getter.

[Charlotte]

Quite simply, i lied about my age. I was 5'10 at 15, so it wasn't difficult to pass for 18.

The pictures are not sexually gratuituous, and i would say that on Annie's part, there is a certain artistic element to them.

[NicoleWasHere]

^ You think Miley's pouty, over sexualized pictures are something of art? Really?

Hm. No, I don't think so. When I think of art, I think of talent, grace, beauty... Miley has none of that. She's just acting like a tramp and getting away with it.

[MsDark]

Traci Lords lied about her age too, I think. When it was found out that some of her porn was filmed as early as age 15, it got pulled off shelves.

It's hilarious to me that some people don't think there's anything sexual about these pics. This chick is already working it for all she can without going balls out like Traci Lords. People are going to be so bored of seeing her everywhere that she'll have to start doing more to be noticed eventually if this is the path she's gonna take....the "easy" road, in other words.

[Mel1973]

Traci Lords lied about her age too, I think. When it was found out that some of her porn was filmed as early as age 15, it got pulled off shelves.

It's hilarious to me that some people don't think there's anything sexual about these pics. This chick is already working it for all she can without going balls out like Traci Lords. People are going to be so bored of seeing her everywhere that she'll have to start doing more to be noticed eventually if this is the path she's gonna take....the "easy" road, in other words.

well, I think there's a slight difference in traci lords fucking on film & this girl having a picture taken of her wrapped in a sheet & wearing jeans. Frankly, I'm already bored of seeing her anywhere, I'm just amazed that some 15 year old kid brings out this kind of reaction. It seems a little surreal to me. *shrugs shoulders* I just don't get it.

[MsDark]

Cause it's always entertaining to see how far someone who feeds on attention will go. It sucks for her that everyone knows she's only 15 cause it puts limits on what she can do. It wouldn't do her a damn bit of good if people didn't get to see her pics cause they got pulled for being illegal.

[Aella]

well, I think there's a slight difference in traci lords fucking on film & this girl having a picture taken of her wrapped in a sheet & wearing jeans. Frankly, I'm already bored of seeing her anywhere, I'm just amazed that some 15 year old kid brings out this kind of reaction. It seems a little surreal to me. *shrugs shoulders* I just don't get it.

Yep, precisely. Even going on the assumption this was done on purpose to cause a controversy/buzz, well, mission accomplished.

The funny thing is she is actually older than a fair portion of fashion models out there who are doing considerably more sexually explicit pics.

[MsDark]

Very true. But since fashion models livelihood is all about how they look, it's less newsworthy when one of them decides to sex it up for attention. This chick is supposed to have gotten famous already and made bukus of dollars for something else that doesn't have anything to do with sex, and now she's decided (for whatever reason) that she wants attention in this manner...or in a way that something like this will accomplish for her.

[Sweetie]

She'll be old enough to drive a car in about 6 months, so I think she's old enough to wrap herself in a sheet, and pose for a picture that shows nothing but her back. At least I would think.

[MsDark]

I can't wait til she has no legal boundaries and can be the careening spiral that there's potential for.

[Mel1973]

Is it just me or do people seem more agitated about Miley and this "implied sexuality" than they did at Jamie Lynn Spears and her blatant flaunting of her sex life even though she's pretty much the same age?

[Sweetie]

^ I think the bigger the celebrity the more agitated people get. It's insane.

[MsDark]

I'm guessing people weren't as shocked by Jamie-Lynn cause Britney'd already paved the way and broken everyone in with regard to that which is the Spears legacy.

And Hannah Montana is probably bigger than Zoey 101, like Sweetie suggested. Especially with the littler kiddies.

[Penny Lane]

She's 15, not 5. She knew what was going on. If she didnt have a history of taking stupid lacy-bra pictures, then maybe I'd give her the benefit of the doubt, but come on.

Don't be stupid.