Miley Cyrus...paper tigress or manipulative temptress extraordinaire? Pornification not a word, folks...

Annie Leibovitz sleazy perception of Miley!

A dude can't even log off for a second or two, slip into a Thai eatery in Westwood for a feast on a serving of mouth-watering Kung Pow Chicken on a mound of white rice, or stroll under a dreamy romantic night-sky without missing a watershed event.

Miley Cyrus suggestively straddled a pole on a Fox Network Stage (not unlike a bitch on the prowl in heat) and in the throes of the scandalous coming-of-age sexual tease - shocked a scorned four million viewers- including a prudish Perez Hilton who screamed at the boob tube "slut".

But, a handful of Hannah Montana fans gave the nubile young Cyrus star the benefit of the doubt.

Oh, she was hanging onto that pole to maintain her balance, of course!

To some, she was simply a classless bump 'n grinder, a stripper with all the wrong moves.

A provocative tease, quipped an amused by-stander.

Fox TV executives - hyper-sensitive to the potential fall-out - anxiously instructed camera-operators to capture the blossoming sexpot above the shoulders to avoid a brewing controversy.

Ah, shades of Elvis.

When his swivelling hips first hit the stage on the Ed Sullivan show, critics yowled.

Church Leaders warned that the "pelvis" would corrupt the youth of American, in one fell swoop.

Miley Cyrus?

A paper tigress or temptress extraordinaire?

Some parent advocates referred to the sensual blow-out on stage last night as a sly attempt at "pornification of the culture".

Say what?

Is pornification actually a word?

Or, just an imagined scenario concocted by puritans, to put a lid on freedom of - um - expression?

A flip through the dictionary confirms it.

No such word in the English language.

Uh-huh!

For starters, hysterical folks wagging their fingers non-stop around the water-cooler during coffee break, shouldn't be tossing the blame solely on the bimbo babe.

Before her, strumpet Bridgett Bardot rocked the sexual mores of the day when she flounced across the silver screen in Lolita, if you recall.

Brooke Shields didn't escape scorn (or the glare of the searing critical spotlight either) when she left little to the imagination in "Pretty Baby" with pretty much nothing on.

Gwen Billings, editor of Cynopsis Kids (a trade publication that covers the beat for children in the entertainment industry) probably said it best when she assessed the tawdry amateurish sexual strut this way.

"I can't imagine something like this (performance) gets all the way to the stage because a teenager says this is something I want to do. Someones got to provide the pole."

It is quite possible the routine started out as a squeaky-clean tribute to Shirley Temple - and her awesome hit "The Good Ship Lollipop" - in wholesome Disney-style.

Somewhere along the line, just betcha, the lollipop was transformed into a pole for some unknown reason (you know how obsessive these musical directors can get) and the cutesy two-step dance number was jazzed up to breathe a bit of pep and zest into it.

The producers exercised a bit of harmless artistic license, that's all.

But, pornification?

Naw.

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