Why Is Everyone Getting Naked? Rashida Jones on the Pornification of Everything

This fall I was hanging out with my sisters, catching up on pop-culture stuff. We watched some music videos, looked at a few Instagram accounts, and checked out blogs. And amid the usual duck-lipped selfies and staged paparazzi photos, a theme emerged: Stripper poles, G-strings, boobs, and a lot of tongue action were all now normal accessories for mainstream pop stars. Across the board the Instamessage seemed to be: “You know you want to have sex with me. Here, take a look at lots of parts of my body.”

Scarlett Johansson

Actress Scarlett Johansson has the most recent leaked celebrity naked photos. Of course Scarlett is claiming a “hacker” is the one who leaked the photos, but I think that “hacker” is just the nickname of her publicist.

 

Blake Lively

Actress Blake Lively is the other star of the hit CW show “Gossip Girl”. She also appeared in the movie “The Town” and her vagina is currently being occupied by mega star Leonardo DiCaprio.
Obviously Blake Lively is a multi-talented woman, as is evidenced by the fact that she managed to capture her breasts, ass, vagina, and part of her face in this leaked nude photo. She also had 2 sets of naked pictures leaked which can be seen here and here.

Ashley Greene

Actress Ashley Greene is best known as one of the stars of the “Twilight” movie saga, and for dating Joe Jonas causing his ex-girlfriend, Disney star Demi Lovato, to go insane before committing herself to a mental hospital.

Rihanna

That was at the end of October, a month that had already brought us the Miley Cyruscross-continental twerk-a-thon and Nicki Minaj’s Halloween pasties. With the addition of Rihanna writhing on a pole in her “Pour It Up” video, and Lady Gaga’s butt-crack cover art for the song that goes “Do what you want with my body,” I was just done. I’d had enough.

Jessica Alba 

I don’t know when the pornification of pop stars became so extreme, but as Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video played in the background—naked fantasy women bouncing around and licking things—I realized that the lines were not really blurry at all. They were clear. A new era had arrived.

Christina Hendricks

If 1994 was the Year of O.J.’s White Bronco, 2013 was the Year of the Very Visible Vagina.

Vanessa Hudgens

Keeping the Disney theme going, coming in at #4 is “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens.

Taylor Swift
WTF sexy fake …

Let me say up front: I am not a prude. I love sex; I am comfortable with my sexuality. Hell, I’ve even posed in my underwear. I also grew up on a healthy balance of sexuality in pop stars. Yes, we had Madonna testing the boundaries of appropriateness, but then we also had Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Cyndi Lauper, women who played with sexuality but didn’t make it their calling card. And for every 2 Live Crew “Me So Horny” video girl, there was Susanna Hoffs singing tenderly about her eternal flame.

Miley Cyrus

Disney star Miley Cyrus is probably the forgotten celebrity on this list. Not because she is not a big star, but because when the naked picture of her below was released many dismissed it as fake since you can not see her face.
Thankfully there is proof (here) that this is in fact a naked picture of Miley Cyrus. One can only imagine that this will be the first of many.

Twenty years later, all the images seem homogenous. Every star interprets “sexy” the same way: lots of skin, lots of licking of teeth, lots of bending over. I find this oddly…boring. Can’t I just like a song without having to take an ultrasound tour of some pop star’s privates?

Cassie Ventura 

Cassie Ventura is a singer, actress, and tremendous whore …

On that fall day I wanted to know if anyone else felt like me. So I took to Twitter. (Admittedly, not the best place to go while frustrated. Because, as my best friend puts it, Twitter is a bad neighborhood. If you go there to score, you will be surrounded by people looking to pick a fight. They may also rob you. And carjack you. And call you names. He was right.) Here’s what I tweeted:
This week’s celeb news takeaway: She who comes closest to showing the actual inside of her vagina is most popular. #stopactinglikewhores
And then: Let me clarify. I don’t shame ANYone for anything they choose to do with their lives or bodies…
And then: BUT I think we ALL need to take a look at what we are accepting as “the norm”…
And then: There is a whole generation of young women watching. Sure, be SEXY but leave something to the imagination.

Leighton Meester

Actress Leighton Meester is the star of the hit CW show “Gossip Girl”, and is known for her class and excellent fashion sense.

And finally: Also, calling on all men to show me dat ass. (This tweet was purely selfish. If women are going to do all this exposing, why can’t we get a little something in return?)