Noted columnist Yang Zi, writing in the United Daily News, came down on the pictorial craze, saying: "While it cannot be said that female celebrities are prostituting themselves when they pose for a commercial photo spread, their behavior shares similar characteristics to prostitution as both behaviors use the body as a medium of exchange, and both involve the commodification of the body.
著名作家楊子便曾在聯合報專欄中批評時下的寫真集熱：「女星拍攝寫真集出售，不能說是賣淫，但具有賣淫的同質性，因為兩者都以肉體作為交換價值的內函，兩者都是肉體商品化的行為。