Glee's 'porny' photo shoot

Parents groups are fuming over a GQ photo spread in which two of the show's female leads pose as scantily clad school girls. Too much or to be expected?

The November issue of GQ features 'Glee' cast members
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Critics and parents groups are incensed over a GQ photo shoot in which "Glee" stars, Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, both 24, pose as extremely lightly dressed school girls (alongside a fully clothed male co-star). While the Parents Television Council says the shoot "borders on pedophilia" and Agron has already issued an apology, GQ's Editor-in-Chief, Jim Nelson, stands by the American-Apparel-ad-esque shots — which commentators have called "scandalous" and "porny" — and says the 20-something cast members of the Fox show are "old enough to do what they want." Is this uproar just predictable noise? (Watch a report about the photos)

The photos are "creepy" soft porn: In previous photo shoots, the "Glee" kids have maintained their "reasonably chaste cast personas" or posed as the adults they are, says Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon. But here, they have been transformed into "porny teen fantasy characters, all spread legs and underpants in the locker room," for GQ's adult male readers (average age: 33.4 years) to ogle. Worse, the shots were taken by Terry Richardson, a man with a long and "reputedly unpleasant history involving teenagers."

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