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I’m so tried of hearing about it. From Miley Cyrus to Sydney art shows, it’s all over the internet now-a-days. It’s art verses perversion, and I believe that it’s all in the eye of the beholder. Everyone seems to think that young women are simply being used by adults in order to further their own ideals.

Honestly, if you hear the words penis or vagina, they aren’t dirty words until you put some perverted context behind them. You don’t have to think about sex constantly, but apparently everyone has it on their mind when it comes to the human body–especially if it’s a naked body–even if we’re talking about little girls or boys.

Here’s a comment I recently made that sums up my thoughts:

It used to be that by 13, girls would already be married or were planning on it.. The human length of life has changed, however, and girls/women now have the ability to choose when they want to have children, even well into their 40’s and 50’s.

Back in the day, this couldn’t be done because people didn’t always make it to 20. When this was the case, there was no real problem with it as a whole. Though, now we all worry about the rights of those young women and how people may look at them.. But, if they don’t see anything wrong with it and neither does the artist, then what is the problem?

When are people going to grow up and find the human body–no matter what age, shape, or color–is a work of art in itself and should not be idealized as a purely sexual vessel? Why should people feel ashamed of their bodies just because they are different or unclothed?