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Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:00 AM

We're so over Vanessa Hudgens' naked pictures

Has the Web caused America to grow up about nudity?

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Monday, September 17, 2007 06:15 PM

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Monday, September 17, 2007 03:55 PM

You Want Cock??

Rent any movie starring Harvey Keitel. That man has waved his prick around in seemingly every movie in which he has starred. If he isn't an exhibitionist, he ought to be.

Monday, September 17, 2007 03:37 PM

for letting me be regestered

thank you for letting me be registered on this website

Monday, September 17, 2007 02:49 PM

read..

why go nude?

Monday, September 17, 2007 02:38 PM

i dont like her

I thought she was like so much better than that but shes up to know good. I meen why say sorry you shouldnt have never did it in the first place....why would you grab someones private part?

me and my friends now have a gossip club!! my friend told me that zac broke up with her and went back to

ashley....and i heard hudgens had used ashley tisdales song "dont tuch" now AShleys like so mad at her.i also heard that she acted like she was pregnant and zacs like.."i gotta take care of my baby." this isnt coming from me.....shes up to no good...she has the nerve to apoligize!!!! even if she did do that, why spread it? now about 90% of her fan won't like her...i mean yeah shes pretty and young and talented she just seems to sweet to do something like that.i heard that she got dared to do it...what kind of friend would dare something like that? its not hudgens fault....its the person who dared her to do it....wait.....why did she say yes???

Monday, September 17, 2007 01:12 PM

Mermaid Statue

If you're like me, the real star of this story is that awesome mermaid statue from Kollam Beach, India.

It looks like it was sculpted by Kanayi Kunhiraman or someone who wanted very much to be like him. This mermaid at Shankumugham Beach is his for sure. But I really love his Yakshi. Just remember: SHOULD NOT CLIMB ON STATUE.

Monday, September 17, 2007 12:40 PM

We'll be over it when...

we have the same access to photos of full-frontal nudity in men. It annoys the heck out of me to go to an R rated movie and see completely naked women but I can't get a gander at how big the guy's cock is (with the exception of Boogie Nights). Come on, fair's fair.

Monday, September 17, 2007 11:41 AM

Zac

well, I'd prefer to see Zac's photos. They must be out there somewhere. And I'm sure they would cause a big uproar. Maybe America is over boob pix, but I don't think we're there yet on male nudity.

Monday, September 17, 2007 08:01 AM

Vanessa Hudgens is EXTREMELY hot

just shoot me if I ever get over her nude photos.

She is yummy in the best way. Not all skanked out like Britney Hilton. But I know what is coming, the Hollywood makeup artists will insist she take on a different look. You know, the one foisted on every real girl who has a real face and a real body.

She will be transformed into another bubble headed Cosmo floozie yet.

Monday, September 17, 2007 07:14 AM

We're so over nudity

There was a nudity incident about 10 years ago at a Detroit Red Wings game. Lucy Lawless sang the national anthem and accidentally popped out of her dress on live TV. She quickly covered and continued.

The TV station got several complaints from viewers who were upset that it was shown on live television. They got many more requests to show it again.

It wasn't a big career-breaking scandal for Lucy Lawless. So I figured we're growing up over these things.

Monday, September 17, 2007 05:26 AM

I, for one, am completely over it...

Now where can I find more pics? (So I can confirm how over it I am, of course...)

Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:40 PM

If we're so "over it" why oh why

do you continue writing articles about this trivial bullshit. Do you think anyone really cares? For chissakes there are some really important things going on in the world today and you and other seem to obcess of the likes of her and Brittany. Who gives a shit?

Sunday, September 16, 2007 02:02 PM

Depressing. But expected.

Of course Disney doesn't care. Did it care with Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears? This isn't Walt's company. You can be sure he wouldn't stand for it.

We're not more mature, we're more debased. I don't have any problem with "adult" behavior. I defended bathroom sex in the letters columns related to Larry Craig. But Disney is supposed to be a family company, and most of its product is geared towards kids. These recurring situations with the child performers it promotes indicate 1) the company treats the kids it employs about as well as the producers did on Diff'rent Strokes, and 2) the company has no concern over who makes a good role model for the kids in the audience.

Oddly, the company is extremely strict about its employees (always called "performers") in its stores and theme parks. There are very strict guidelines about dos and don'ts. You are "onstage" and you must make a specific impression. But apparantly, all that goes out the window once you get famous. Fame rejects the shame. Nice.

And please don't use the lame "if you want role models, why are you looking at celebrities" response. Makes sense for teens and adults. For kids, everyone they encounter is a potential role model.

Disney seems to have decided that since the celebrity kids have become savvy Lolitas, they ought to be up front about it, so the kids in the audience can learn to follow suit.

Sunday, September 16, 2007 09:29 AM

Americans still babies!

Don't worry puritans!

America is still the most immature and prudish country in the Western world.

The reason that Vanessa Hudgens hasn't been more than a blip on the radar is that she seems like a nice sweet girl.

Fortunately for her, America is also the most hypocritical country in the Western world and will overlook for some what they would crucify others for. (Mitt Romney’s non-serving sons, Cheney’s gay daughter, William Bennett’s gambling, Bush’s military record, Limbaugh’s drug use, Chinese Communism vs. Cuban Communism etc, etc )

Sunday, September 16, 2007 08:16 AM

Nudity.

Face facts, folks. Most people look better with their clothes on. Given the prevalence of obesity this is particularly true of Americans.

On the other hand, there are a few people out there who should be prohibited from wearing clothes. You know who you are.

Sunday, September 16, 2007 08:01 AM

I at least appreciate

An 18 year old woman who hasn't shaved down to look like an 11 year old.

Sunday, September 16, 2007 04:28 AM

We're so over !!!!

And yes, Mr. Manjoo is right, we're so over about these things.

There's no problem a celebrity has nude pictures, do drugs or take a picture of her grabing another girl's breast. She is a celebrity, for the God's sake. She cannot receive criticism. She is cool and we are so afraid to be labelled as a puritan.

The problem is when this celebrity is a model for young children that admire her and think that posting nude picture on the Internet while they are teens is so cool... Or grabing another girl's breast without being lesbian and taking a picture of it is the key to attracting male attention and being cool.

I am not a puritan. I'm from the left and I am very open minded when it comes to sexual things. But there is a huge difference between children and grown-ups. When it comes to our children, is it so strange to demand adequate role models for their age?

When I was an (early) teen, our role models were the teen stars of our times. Our wish was to kiss a girl and have a girlfriend. When we became adults, we had time for all sorts of sexual experiences, when we were prepared to have them.

Now a girl that doesn't kiss another girl, lose her virginity at 13, smokes pot (dangerous for teen brains) or post nude pictures on the Web thinks (and her friends think) that she is a weirdo and a retarded.

If you are a father, do you want your children to have this kind of behavior while they are teen?

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