Frosstbyte

Prom dress? Tousled hair, coy smile, not a stitch of clothing to be seen? You must've had an awesome high school prom. She looks like someone who just woke up after a "long" night and is sitting up in bed covering herself with a sheet. Which isn't to say it isn't artistic as well, simply that it's without a doubt provocative and intended to titillate. The fact that the photographer and subject were both women doesn't in any way change that.

I think any uproar about the whole thing is silly, as is this country's puritanical view of almost all things related to sex, and I think any attempt on her part to feign ignorance of what was happening is just as bad. She went for a "sex sells" angle and, shockingly, a lot of parents of 10-15 year old girls aren't thrilled with having sex sold to their children. The routine is getting to be a little tired, but I suppose that's the danger of being young, famous, attractive (?) and fabulously wealthy.

Looks like next harvest will be even better.

If you can't see the myriad, obvious differences between the picture in question and the use of nudity in classical art, I don't think we can really have a conversation. The cultural contexts and the purposes behind the images are blindingly divergent. About the only similarity is that they're images featuring a partially clothed female subject. That doesn't count for much given everything else.