New York Magazine Publishes Soft-Core Porn 'Photo Shoot,' While Lindsay Lohan
Shows That a Young Woman's Breasts Can Grow Much Faster Than Her Good Sense,
Says Morality in Media President Robert Peters
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert Peters, President of MIM,
had the following comments in response to New York Magazine's (2/25/08 issue)
effort to use Lindsay Lohan to "re-create Marilyn Monroe's legendary last
(nude) photo shoot."
"I thankfully cannot claim to have examined every 'mainstream' magazine that
has published nude photographs of women, but of the one's I have seen, New
York Magazine's effort to 'recreate Marilyn Monroe's legendary last (nude)
photo shoot' pushes the envelope further than them all.
"This is, of course, part of the problem with pushing the envelope. What at
first offends and even shocks loses its power to do so, after viewers are
repeatedly exposed to similar content. That leaves the exploiter of sex with
two choices. Back off or push the envelope even further.
"In this issue, New York hasn't just recreated a series of photographs of
Marilyn Monroe that have blasphemously become known as 'The Last Sitting,' it
has followed in the footsteps of Playboy magazine.
"I describe the New York nude photo shoot as 'soft-core porn,' for the same
reason that people describe Playboy magazine's nude photo shoots as 'soft-core
porn.' Men who subscribe to Playboy for the purpose of viewing naked women
don't do so because of their appreciation for great art; so men who buy New
York to see a naked Lindsay Lohan won't be doing so because of their
appreciation for great art.
"Of course, with this particular issue of New York, some people can be
expected to buy the publication just to see how low a mainstream magazine and
Hollywood 'starlet' will go for the sake of notoriety.
"As for Ms. Lohan, one keeps hoping that the bitter pills she has swallowed in
life will prove medicinal and will yet help straighten out her life. But
either lacking in real talent or now too out of control or lazy to make use of
her talents, she has played the fool once again.
"At least in one area of her life, however, Ms. Lohan has shown phenomenal
growth. A quick comparison between her partial nudity photo shoot in the
February 2006Vanity Fair, when she was still a teenager, and the nude photo
shoot in the February 2008New York, will show that her breast size has
increased astonishingly. Too bad we can't say the same for her good sense."
SOURCE Morality in Media
Robert Peters of Morality in Media, Inc., +1-212-870-3210
