Tbh, it depends on whose showing it imo. For example, Miley Cyrus showing skin (boobs & stuff) is not okay. She turned trashy. The margin is extremely thin between being trashy and classy. So it really depends on whose doing it and how it's done. Trashy or artistically.
Of course this is freedome of speech but I am wondering how you draw
a line between showing skin trashy or artiscially?
Because in Avril's case it's as trashy (IMO) as Miley Cyrus. Of course
Avril's not trashy and she didn't do it on purpose unlike Miley does it
billions of times, but I don't see it as an artistic act either.
So showing skin in public isn't an artistic act at all if you're asking me.
Showing skin in public will (at least for the time being) always be an act
of provocation, because we are not allowed to do it.
I think it's unfair to say someone's trashy just because they do it more
often, especially if their goal is provocation. It's more like a play with the
limits of our society and mocking them by using your own body.
Performance artists have done it billions of times and that's actually where
the artistic (not aesthetic) starts. But it comes with an enactment.
One shouldn't confuse that with pictures of a drunk Paris Hilton lying in a
cab showing her boobs cause she's passed out. That's trashy.
The
easthetic artistic can only be seen in displaying art, if you're asking me.
Nude photography for example. But that's not what we're talking about,
cause we are not talking about the body and the art, but whether it's okay
to show skin in public. In that case I think there are huge gaps.