Playboy's octogenarian boss Hugh Hefner has said he is interested in having Miley Cyrus in his adult magazine when she will turn 18. "Sure, she'd be welcomed in the magazine," he told Extra. "Very pretty lady."

"I think to make such a big to-do over something as innocent as those photos, I think is a reflection on how schizophrenic America is about sexuality," he said.

Not only she posed in a sexy posture in the Annie Leibovitz photoshoot, showing the young star barely covered by a sheet, back bared and displaying a seductive look, the photos with her on her father's knee were also disturbing to most people. "This picture disturbs me. It looks like his daughter is his girlfriend. He's trying to be hot," radio host Howard Stern said on his show.

It is also obvious, as a WSJ article titled "The Miley Cyrus Uproar" remarks, that only a fool would believe the apologies of the adults involved in the photo shoot, including Annie Leibovitz. It's clear as daylight that she intentionally made Miley take a sexy pose, and everybody there understood that the 15-year-old was being turned into a sex symbol: "It is a blatant bedroom shot," says The Times' Janice Turner.

Meanwhile, Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana" star Cyrus insists that she is nothing like the girl portrayed in the controversial Vanity Fair magazine pictures, and she makes more "modest" fashion choices in real life.

"All the clothes -- all the short skirts and all that stuff -- my mom would never in a million years let me leave the house like that. So I think that a really cool thing that everyone's doing now is layering, just to keep yourself modest and cute," the 15-year-old said.

Either way, audiences for the latest episode of the show dropped 14% from the previous fresh episode, which aired just under two months earlier, New York Daily News reported. Compared to the first original show of the year, which aired in January, viewership for Sunday's show was down 26%. An estimated 3.1 million viewers tuned in for "Hannah's" 7 p.m. Sunday edition, which aired out of the network's usual pattern for fresh episodes.