I don’t see what’s wrong with the picture. I think it’s the best photo of her I’ve ever seen (which is…not that many). I really like the photo, it’s classic and natural. I don’t think it’s over-sexualized at all and if it is sexually attractive, well, that’s because 15 year old girls are sexually attractive. I mean she looks like a woman…so?
And her expression is perfectly natural, especially compared to her other many other flirtatious expressions (some more and some less so) in other photos, which apparently are no big deal.
other photos thrown in for good measure:
photos 1
photo 2
I’m not saying that American children are not in many cases hyper-sexualized, just not in this case.
opinion on vanity fair blog
british opinion (mostly the opposite of the previous ones)
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May 1, 2008 by amy
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“I don’t see what’s wrong with the picture. I think it’s the best photo of her I’ve ever seen (which is…not that many). I really like the photo, it’s classic and natural. I don’t think it’s over-sexualized at all and if it is sexually attractive, well, that’s because 15 year old girls are sexually attractive. I mean she looks like a woman…so?”
i was going to post something about this too. yeah i’m not sure american children are hypersexualized compared to other countries (hmm france?). i also don’t think this photo is anything out of the ordinary in and of itself but i do think that it violates the rule that people under 18?/16?/whatever should not be sexualized, which exists as a means of protecting kids from adult exploitation. i mean there is a compromise where you have to decide how much you need to curtail exploitation vs how much freedom you can allow.
personally i think it’s stupid and unnatural to think that people under 18 are asexual. but i also think it’s possible to support something you personally think is stupid but works for society at large. (i don’t know how much sense i’m making)
Ok what I was trying to say was that the photo was sexy but not sexualized.
This reminds me of Sally Mann’s (fine arts photographer’s) works, she took photographs of her children while they were growing up. I remember seeing them quite a while ago and I thought they looked nice (somewhat vague memory here), and that they were controversial for some reason (more vague memories, because I didn’t really understand why they were controversial, but they were definitely controversial. I don’t know what is wrong with me, but I didn’t quite get it drilled into my head yet at the time that nude photos of children = taboo). So maybe this has to do with it.
here they are, they’re soo pretty, but I guess if you don’t think the Miley Cyrus photos are OK proceed with caution.
The other point I was trying to make is that she appears in photo #2 of original post (and probably many other ones) dressed up in a very adult manner, with heavy makeup and womanly dress, and that is the norm in the U.S. for girls her age. No one sees anything wrong with that because probably they’ve been desensitized to it, even though in my mind it is just as overtly sexual, if not more so than the Annie Leibovitz photo, in which she looks younger and more natural.
oh other part of article which I thought was kinda funny
yeah…that would be acceptable because Venus emerges from the clamshell, apparently fully grown, in Botticelli’s painting “Birth of Venus”. I think we saw that painting in some museum in Europe last year…I forgot which one exactly, I think it was in Italy, where we also saw lots of Botticelli’s sculptures. Rome?
I think it’s the same city we saw Michelangelo’s David maybe…which would be Florence. Yeah most of what I remember about David is that the sculpture is…gigantic.