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" December 2007: A photo circulates online of the 15-year-old Cyrus &amp;quot;almost kissing&amp;quot; a female friend. (Not quite &amp;quot;almost,&amp;quot; as there was a Twizzler between them, but you know that old expression: &amp;quot;Give &amp;#039;em an inch, and they&amp;#039;ll call you a whore who&amp;#039;s corrupting their children.&amp;quot;) This may seem innocent now, but then, it got about the same response as the VMAs got this past summer, if you can believe it. &amp;quot;It was me,&amp;quot; Cyrus says later, &amp;quot;on my MySpace. For me, I was like, That&amp;#039;s two girls \u2014 it&amp;#039;s not a big deal. I was just like, it didn&amp;#039;t affect me.&amp;quot; America begins its slow morph into that creepy repressed priest from Disney&amp;#039;s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. April 2008: Photos circulate online of Cyrus draped across the lap of then-boyfriend Thomas Sturges, making out, with her midriff partly showing. Again: An underage girl and her boyfriend, making out at a friend&amp;#039;s house, as if that was not going on among kids Miley&amp;#039;s age across America. Nobody saw this photo and was inspired to live a life of alcoholic beverages, wanton fornication and lack of commitment to recycling. People got mad anyway. Miley&amp;#039;s response: &amp;quot;The pictures of me on the Internet were silly, inappropriate shots. I appreciate all the support of my fans, and hope they understand that along the way I am going to make mistakes and I am not perfect. I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone.&amp;quot; The same month, Annie Leibovitz shoots Miley for a 2008 piece in Vanity Fair. A photo of her wrapped in a sheet, displaying her bare back, gets both Leibovitz and Miley in hot water. Leibovitz and VF stand their ground, saying Miley&amp;#039;s guardians were always present to veto anything deemed inappropriate. (VF owns photo, so here is, um, an &amp;quot;artist&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; rendering)  Miley &amp;amp;gt;releases a statement of apology via her publicist: &amp;quot;I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be &amp;#039;artistic&amp;#039; and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen, and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.&amp;quot; July 2008 Miley&amp;#039;s phone gets hacked and photos meant for then-boyfriend Nick Jonas (featuring her in the shower, and her midriff exposed) hit the Internet. She has a shirt on in both. Again: Her phone was hacked. People still got mad. August 2009  Rather understandably, given the above, Miley&amp;#039;s F*ck This, I Do What I Want phase begins. Miley, then 16, pole-dances during a performance of &amp;quot;Party in the USA&amp;quot; at the Teen Choice Awards. June 2010 Miley kisses a girl during a performance of &amp;quot;Can&amp;#039;t Be Tamed&amp;quot; on Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent. (Supposedly. It was kind of an indecipherable writhing stage-orgy.) Perez Hilton posts an upskirt creeper shot like a champ. (Not really.) Video appears on TMZ of Miley grinding on 45-year-old Adam Shankman, director of The Last Song. (To the uncensored version of &amp;quot;Get Low&amp;quot; by Lil Jon &amp;amp;amp; the East Side Boiz, otherwise known as &amp;quot;pure poetry.&amp;quot;)  January 2012 Miley poses with a penis cake for Liam Hemsworth&amp;#039;s birthday. Everyone flips out even though it was a G-D cake. (The better question is why Liam got a penis cake, but some questions are best unanswered.) March 2013  Miley posts a (weirdly captivating) video to her Instagram of herself twerking to &amp;quot;WOP&amp;quot; by Juicy J. in the infamous unicorn onesie.      June 2013 Miley and co. twerk in the offbeat, Molly-referencing &amp;quot;We Can&amp;#039;t Stop&amp;quot; music video.   August 2013 The twerk heard &amp;#039;round the world.  Miley Cyrus twerks on unsuspecting CVS cashier Robin Thicke at the VMAs. A Washington Post op-ed (to which we are not linking because no thanks) suggests that said twerking is the reason that rape culture \u2014 specifically, Steubenville \u2014 exists. My response. Follow Anna on Twitter.   Images via Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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