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Oh my goodness, please don't look at this photograph! Rather fear gods revenge for a scandal like this at the end of times! Miley Cyrus is just 15 and this is really a scandal for religious fundamentalists in the US as well as for Disney Channel. This photo doesn't fit the economic good-girl-image of Miley Cyrus and it should fit religiousness and prudery that predominates the public debate in the land of freedom. Taking a photo of a 15 year old actor with the consent of her parents is immediately sexually connotated with pedohilia in this debate. For people in western european countries it's simply weird because a part of the society in the US is very tolerant concerning violence in media but absolutely intolerant concerning an artwork of Annie Leibovitz that expresses just the innocence and beauty of a teenager and nothing more. People in the US will discuss this subject again and again regardless of the photographer. Jock Sturges has provoked such a debate years ago and we need to ask why are people after the era of enlightenment still so afraid of the naked body? Oh, we don't need to talk about enlightenment, we can just talk about the bible. Didn't Adam and Eve were naked in paradise? O.K. the history of sin started when they got aware of that but didn't Jesus came to free people from this captivity? Seemingly not. Religious fundamentalism is closely connotated with an image of god who likes to punish people for their sins and who likes fearful human beings but this has nothing to do with a mature image of god who came to free people and who not only created the souls of men and women but also their body, their beauty, sexuality and passion.
And what about the freedom of art? What about the freedom of parents and a daughter who first agreed with the photo. Miley could not react elsewise afterwards, she was under a huge pressure because of the public furor. And the public furor is just ridiculous and neurotic. There should rather be another furor about the victims of religious addiction and abuse in fundamentalist communities and about the fear of being perhaps sinful. This has nothing to do with freedom this is just the absence of self esteem in the education of millions of people. There should rather be another furor: God wants men to be free, walk on the earth with his head up and break the chains of suppression in society!