Why is it okay to exploit a 15 year old girl?

[MaineDolFan]

So I am bumping around the news wires this morning and I see this dust up around Miley Cyrus and a Vanity Fair issue coming out next week.  She did a photo shoot and the photos were supposed to be "artistic."  She is semi nude in some, only a blanket covering her.  Everyone on set thought, at the time, it was okay...and are now horrified at how the pictures are coming across.

Um, hello?  Did everyone forget this is a 15 year old girl?  WTF is she doing "artistic" pictures for in the first place?!?!?!?!?!  Daddy was on set.  Why wasn't he clubbing someone over the head for just suggesting the poses?!  I mean, seriously.  "Billy, what we want Miley to do is take off her shirt and..." THUMP.  Conversation should have ended right there and then.

The only pictures a little girl should be taken is in a cute little sundress.  Or capris.  Not this...



People wonder how Brittney Spears turned out the way she did?  Maybe it had something to do with her poses in Rolling Stone in only a bra at 16 years old. 

Men are perverts for looking at young women -- and yet this is okay.  What is wrong with society that this goes unchecked? 

[StL FinFan]

I wish I had an answer to that.  How could her father allow it?  I just can't wrap my brain around it.  We would be calling the police (and an ambulance for the person we just pounded) if anyone suggested taking shirtless photos of our daughter(s).

[CF DolFan]

Society in general thinks it cute to dress up little girls to make them look sexy.  I would have went off had she been my daughter but then again ... I wouldn't let my daughter wear some of the things she wears in general.   

[Buddhagirl]

The pictures they took of her and her father are even creepier. They look like bf and gf. Ewwww.

[Sunstroke]

"Billy, what we want Miley to do is take off her shirt and..." THUMP.  Conversation should have ended right there and then.

Exactly...though there may have been a few subsequent "thumps" involved, because I probably would have planted a couple more hard rights in his unconscious mug as he went down... Maybe 1-2 more once he hit the ground, depending entirely on how fast his security staff is.

That's just some creepy shit there, maynard...

[bsmooth]

It is all about press and controversy generates mad press. The more people get "worked" up by this, the more often it will happen, and th younger the kids will get.
What do you expect from a man who's career is pretty much wrapped into one song and was using the fact he worked at Chippendale's as a way to hype his carer.

[CF DolFan]

It is all about press and controversy generates mad press. The more people get "worked" up by this, the more often it will happen, and th younger the kids will get.
What do you expect from a man who's career is pretty much wrapped into one song and was using the fact he worked at Chippendale's as a way to hype his carer.

He's had several top ten hits as well as acted quite a bit. 

I hadn't seen the other pics but they do sound creepy! Hollywood people are all freaks!!

[MaineDolFan]

It's just a double standard.  Dateline TV tracks down guys that show up at homes to have sex with 16 year old and the public is outraged.  How could this man be attracted to a 16 year old?!  It's wrong!  Chop off his twig and giggle berries and chuck him in the prison showers!  How could that man be so disgusting?  And then Hollywood churns out images like this saying "hey, come on...take a peek.  Isn't she sexy?"

These people are children.  Why is that so hard to be understood?  At some point in time it's okay to say no to the almighty dollar.

[landlocked]

Ten years from now her dad will be "horrified" at how his daughter became another Britney Spears,and will be telling the media how he just "can't fathom" why his little girl is doing drugs and/or porn,"I thought her mother and I 'raised her right'.Billy Ray Cyrus = assclown.

[run_to_win]

Brooke Shields was 15 when "The Blue Lagoon" was released so this isn't really anything new - and probably could be justified as "minor" in comparison considering film vs pictures and the 28 years that have passed.

That doesn't make it any less abhorrent.

[TonyB0D]

i'd hit it!

[StL FinFan]

That is not even funny.  That's sick.

[CF DolFan]

Brooke Shields was 15 when "The Blue Lagoon" was released so this isn't really anything new - and probably could be justified as "minor" in comparison considering film vs pictures and the 28 years that have passed.

That doesn't make it any less abhorrent.

She was nude as a prostitute even before that movie.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

Disney will cut its ties with her before the week is out.  Trust me on this.

[KC]

I kinda got teleported here from the football stuff 

Not as disgusting as Cam Cameron in a raincoat pleasuring himself in the film room while watching the highlights of his only NFL victory 

I dunno guys - I didn't see the pics but this doesn't sound too bad and sex sells and there's a lot of dough at stake.  This little girl makes more in a year than we will ever.  Lots of cheap publicity here.  She seems mature enough to know what she's doing and I'm not sure that she's being exploited at all.  Whether it was that smart is another question.