I must admit I don’t know quite how to respond to your particular-and obviously popular-point of view. The only response I can think of is the one that I’ve already given, after your first comment: give her a little credit. Sure, its likely that she’s being manipulated into doing some things she may not want to do, like all the rest of us, but I honestly don’t know if I can call it “abuse”. Why not grant her the respect she deserves just for surviving this long by giving her at least the same capacity for intelligent decision making-in terms of WHAT SHE WANTS- that you would assume in a normal 15 year old?

Yet again: you have some curious ideas about what whores look like.

Of course the girl had no problems with the picture. She has been encouraged all her life to ‘perform’. And the *only* reason she developed a problem with it was due to Disney being a bit miffed about their product looking like a whore.

You say this is simple – this is art – it shows her ‘vulnerability’ etc.

What this shows is how easily teen celebrities will be manipulated by parents/promoters/managers. They *used* her for controversy, used her ‘vulnerability’ and exposed her. Sure, she may be loving the publicity. It’s kept her front cover for more time than she deserves. But this is not art. This is the blatant abuse of the ‘vulnerability’ of Miley Cyrus – Miley Cyrus, the product, owned by Disney and sold out by her parents.

Yes, rambling one… there is a whole lot more to this than a half naked girl.

I suppose you’re a big fan of Nabukov’s “Lolita” as well.

Art, crap.

The point of this post was very simple: it’s not a photo for the sake of titillation,its art, and she’s not so young or naive or whatever that you should erupt at the way she’s posing just because of her age.

Also, I disagree that it looks like she’s just been laid. That is one way of looking at it, but you could just as well consider it the way I put it in the post: it’s a shot that exposes the vulnerability of a young girl on the verge of womanhood. That implies a certain sexuality, but not necessarily what you said. And I most vehemently disagree with your implied notion that because she has a child audience her life is not her own.

There’s a fine line between porn and art, and this sits right on it.

Also, to add my 2 cents to the comments on your blog, the father-daughter pose disturbed me more,too, I just thought if no one else saw it it must be just my perviness .

The Girl from the Ghetto