Miley Cyrus has gone on Twitter and retracted her forced apology for the "nude" photo she did ten years ago by Annie Leibovitz. It was published in Vanity Fair.
I remember when that happened. I heard it on the radio. The public was outraged and the NPR set was as dumb as everyone else. Women called into the show and complained that boys didn't "have to" pose like that. They couldn't distinguish Vanity Fair from Tiger Beat. "They're magazines, ain't they?"
Miley at the time thought the photo looked "pretty and really natural". Annie Leibovitz called it a "simple, classic portrait."
One housewife on the phone with NPR didn't think it was artistic because "how come them colors look funny?"
Boys, by the way, are more likely than girls to appear nude or skimpily clad in the media. How many times were the kids on Malcolm in the Middle walking around in underwear? The young fellows in Stand By Me had a wet underwear scene, Devon Sawa and a couple of other kids had a graphic skinny dipping sequence in another movie---the movie had a lady director and they had to have their moms on the set watching. Poor Corey Haim was as naked as Miley was in his implied nude scene in Lucas, and he was raped on the set of that movie. The late Brad Renfro had a locker room scene in a movie directed by an accused ephebophile.
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