Now, when Audrina Patridge's nude photos surfaced over a month ago, I was scratching my head wondering how someone can take nude photos this day and age and not expect them to show up on the Internet. This case is a little different.
Megan Fox was shooting a scene for her new movie, "Jennifer's Body", and the scene required her to be swimming topless (original I know). Technically she isn't 'naked', as she's wearing some sort of breast covering wrap that becomes invisible once it gets wet, but I don't think that will stop millions of men and women from around the world from typing, "Megan Fox Naked" into Google in the next few days. Luckily I can use my job as an excuse.




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Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 14, 2008 at 13:54Heather,
"I don't know why, but I feel somewhat responsible for this..."
It's a little cryptic for me. Why would you feel responsible unless you had something to do with it?
"She's filming not far from Orato.com headquarters, where paparazzi aren't usually hiding in the bushes."
Does this mean that you had something to do with making the circumstances unusual?
"I guess where there's Fox, there are bound to be trees and photographers hiding in them."
By starting out with the words "I guess" you are saying that you are not sure. In my books that invites my opinion, because the question is one of a larger context.
Are the paparazzi, the tail or the dog. Are they in those bushes because we demand it of them, or are they serving their own interests creating the demand?
That begs the question of who is actually degrading the standards of public curiosity, and eventually the ethical/moral intelligence of our society? And to what purpose: So that honest public curiosity be served, or are Megan's tits exploited for profit by eposing them and creating a demand .
These questions are important to ask even if we are reluctant to answer.
And seeing as you left so many openings for questions, Heather, I thought that I might ask some.
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 14, 2008 at 10:32I wonder if there are any computer experts which could defy the little yellow pasties?
Care to test your skills with something that society is just salivating to see?
Be the first to bring Megan's nipples to the world. Where is that guy who un-swirled the perverts face for interpol? Can't he help in a much more beneficial to society challenge, un pasty-ing Megan's nips?
They must really be special, eh? Very news worthy too, I'll bet a pic of them will get you six figures. How lucrative is that, eh?
this could really be helping the world like Paris Hilton's exploits, eh? I know there are many who submit themselves to these pleasant diversions.
Of course the band played on as the Titanic sank. What else can we do, eh? Not much, I guess, exept stay connected to the simple things.
But that would be a pleasant simple yet complex pursuit, to try to un pasty her nips, wouldn't it?
A challenge worth pursuing if you have the skills, I would think. Something that might touch the heart of America where it counts..
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 16, 2008 at 08:04Since I am not being challenged here as to the validity of my questions and it is an important subject, I will post my further opinions. Mike, I'm sure that you had to choose this photo from some less acceptable ones. I understand it was a candid, un-posed photo and that is the nature of the game. I also understand that you must have her permission and therefore it really isn't news but a staged photo op for promotional purposes. Morgan and her entourage are also capitalizing on her tits. Sure I know it's all about marketing and the numbers and that's OK by me. I just wish to raise a bit of awareness with the titillation.
I don't know, maybe I'm not the best judge, but to me the photo chosen does not underscore, Megan's claim to the "sexiest woman alive." I see that those judgmental people had lots to say about Miley's bare shoulders and the evil they saw in the photo, therefore I feel free to do the same with the content of this "hot" photo. To me she looks like a pubescent girl play acting like a squirrel. The only thing remotely "sexy" about it is her breasts are uncovered, yet tantalizingly hidden by the required pasties. Maybe it's the bright yellow pasties adding a cartoon quality to the photo. To me there is nothing remotely sexy about this young girl. I feel embarrassed for her.
Yet I also see the danger in this casual "sexuallization" of nudity. It's actually an extension of "Prudity." As this then becomes the supposed standard for the sexiest woman alive, where are the real sensuous, sexy women of our society? Are they only trying to emulate this pubescent standard of sexuality? Why aren't more concerned with the ever younger focus on sexuality in the "media?" Then, all of the sudden when a guy like Fritzl, or others who pray on the young show up, it's like the sky is falling for no reason. Like some guys just picked up box cutters and for no reason they took out 3000 people, For every action there is a reason.
If you really want answers to the questions about our social degradation, just open your eyes and ask yourself why you are so drawn to these kind of prurient articles and if that isn't contributing a bit? Every moment of our conscious perception seems to be marketed to us. Self awareness is a rare find indeed. Everyone wants to point their fingers at Miley, Megan, but it us who are addicted to this cr*p.
The sexiness is in our eyes and it is we who crave it, because we are stimulated to. We are captured by such promotions, marketing and then we paste it on Miley, Megan. It's time we grow up, isn't it, and fall in love with the real, sensuous people our own age all around us, not some marketers promotional crap which lets us down never satisfying us. At the same time Megan's squirrel pose is marketed as sexy, all around us people are dysfunctional, lonely, unsatisfied so that cr*p like this can rule and make money. All the Marketing BS we are asked to swallow, so that this money making stunt can be miss-labeled the new standard for sexiness, is hard to endure for me without seein the madness in it. .
If you don't understand what I mean, then this probably si the photo of the sexiest woman alive that you have ever seen!
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Mike Small, May 13, 2008 at 15:27Should I feel creepy for posting nude pictures of celebrities? I would say yes if the photos were taken of people who didn't want to be photographed, but I think it's important to remember that Megan Fox is naked for a movie shoot... which will be seen by who knows how many people. I don't really consider it an invasion of privacy because no matter what, Megan was going to be seen nude 3 months down the road when "Jennifer's Body" hits theaters. Now if paparazzi had snuck into Megan's hotel room and taken the pictures, then yes, I would feel creepy for posting them.
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Paul Sullivan, May 14, 2008 at 11:28This one's a no-brainer. Check the math: C +NB = C2 (camera plus naked body = consent). It's like a secret. If you don't want anyone to watch, don't share it with a camera. And that includes a movie camera. That'll do it. How far do you go? If you take your clothes off in private (at least you think it's private), then your privacy should be protected, by law. Otherwise, you're kidding yourself, and Mike will be there to distribute the evidence of that self-delusion.
Paul Sullivan,
Editor-In-Chief
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Heather Wallace, May 14, 2008 at 11:38I don't buy that argument and definitely don't think it's a no-brainer. Consent is a lot more complicated than that. Women who pose in Playboy are still assured that the people taking the pictures are professionals, are authorized and that the resulting images will be carefully controlled. Megan was in a professional setting, and if she was asked, "Will you take off your clothes for this movie if we allow paparazzi in the bushes to capture it all?" I am not sure Megan would have "consented."
I'm happy for all the men (and women) who now get to add a little substance to their fantasies and all, but it's not a simple equation.
Heather
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Paul Sullivan, May 14, 2008 at 11:43Well, maybe there's a different calculus involved. But I still think the math holds up, albeit in a parallel universe. Mine, maybe!
Paul Sullivan,
Editor-In-Chief
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Heather Wallace, May 14, 2008 at 11:52Yes, in people lusting after Ms. Fox land, a naked Megan always equals a good thing. That one, I'll buy.
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Heather Wallace, May 14, 2008 at 10:04No Mike - I don't think you should feel creepy. She is a public figure and her figure was coming out publicly.
I don't think that just because she was working on a nude scene means she shouldn't have had privacy in that moment though. It was probably a closed set, and she was probably assured that only the crew would be there. Someone unauthorized was clearly up to something, or someone she was working with and should have been able to trust was being sneaky.
Likely the final cut of the film would have been edited in a way that some things would be left to the imagination...(Like the nude-colored pasties - I doubt those would have been used in the film.)
Anyway, there are lines, and someone crossed one...Maybe she's not fussed. I'd like to ask her...
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By luyen, May 14, 2008 at 10:01Hey Mike, i wasn't implying that you were doing something wrong either...I was just saying what I felt were the differences were between an invasion of privacy and otherwise! I know you're a stand-up guy, so i wouldn't worry about it, but if I see you with a camera, I'm walking the other way ;-P
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Mike Small, May 14, 2008 at 10:07hahahhaha thanks Lu. As long as you don't look like Megan Fox in a bikini, I think you'll be safe from my camera.
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By luyen, May 14, 2008 at 11:21One time i wore a dress...but you'll need to buy me a few drinks before you hear that story.
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Melkor, May 13, 2008 at 15:38Don’t sweat it Mike. From where I’m sitting, you’re doing God’s work. Bravo!!! I only have this question - is this the best Orato story of the year, or best Orato story of all time?
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By luyen, May 13, 2008 at 08:28I agree with you heather, there's a huge difference between someone posing nude willingly, and having their picture taken unwillingly. The latter is an infringement of privacy, all we have to do is imagine someone taking a photo of us while in the shower, and we'll know how it feels...
Worse of all, it seems these kind of things spread like wildfire on the internet...
Re: Megan Fox Gets Naked. Men Everywhere Rejoice
By Heather Wallace, May 13, 2008 at 08:15I don't know why, but I feel somewhat responsible for this invasion of Megan's privacy. She's filming not far from Orato.com headquarters, where paparazzi aren't usually hiding in the bushes. I guess where there's Fox, there are bound to be trees and photographers hiding in them.
Heather Wallace
senior editor
Orato.com