This is nothing like the Britney & Rolling stones scenario, why? because the props are not tacky, the props are not the main feature – this isn’t the sort of image you would find in a lads mag, unlike that taken by David LaChapelle.

Secondly, all of the parents complaining that there children are viewing the image and what not… what are they doing reading Vanity Fair Magazine in the first place? The target audience is for those well over the age of the target audience for ‘hannah montana’. It is for at least ages 18/20 – 40/50, not ’6 year olds’ or ’13 year olds’. It has many references to sex, money, work and life in it – why would your children view this? So how did they see the photograph of Miley, unless you let them look at it exactly? As well as looking on the internet. You should be watching them, if they could look at the photograph of Ms Cyrus, what else could they be looking at without you knowing? Society has changed a lot since most of you guys were that age.. you do have to move on with times.

The image is perfect – it isn’t provocative or seductive unless you imagine it to be. If you look at the behind the scenes videos/photos on VFs website you can see that she is in fact wearing clothing. The outfit in the photograph, although bed sheets, is nothing less than a dress she would probably wear on the red carpet.

Just my little input – as a lot of the comments which I have read throughout my research have really got on my nerves. So many mis-informed parents, and so many who should think about what they are saying before hand. Really think about it. How on earth did your kids manage to see this image…? When Miley was 15 her mental age would have been at least 18, is that not the age which your kids would go off to college and live on their own with college room mates? No doubt under-age drinking and goodness knows what…

think about it…

a female UK student, aged almost 21.

The difference between art and indecency is not how the public views it, but how the creator views it. Yes, that’s why we have porn, but that’s also why child indecency is able to be illegal. It’s about who is being targeted.

Besides, even if it is provocative, at 15 years old she’s old enough to have sex if she wants, as is every other 15-year-old. It may not be “legal”, but at 15 years old, I was perfectly able to go out and make an informed, intelligent decision (I didn’t, but I’m just saying if I hadn’t been ugly, I could have had a decent sexual relationship). 15-year-olds are always going to flaunt themselves like this, and the fact that Miley makes it beautiful instead of slutty is wonderful. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to the crap we’re subjected to by the likes of Ke$ha and Paris.

Plus, if she were just one year older, she’d be completely legal to take fully naked pictures of herself and consent to a sexual relationship with anyone she wanted. Why is one year such a big difference?