Taylor Swift purchased two domain names this week TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult as a preventive measure against Internet users who might use her name to promote adult-related content, according to the BBC.
Swift is one of a few people who have the opportunity to buy .porn and .adult domain names before they go on sale June 1 for $99 because of her celebrity status, BBC reported. Like Swift, Microsoft Office has purchased the domain names office.porn and office.adult.
But the Shake It Off stars decision to buy these domain names may not only be about securing a website that could be used to promote scandalous material. It could also be about protecting her body and embracing a more modest lifestyle, which she's done throughout her career.
Swift has long championed the idea of not showing too much skin in the media. She's never embraced doing sexy shoots and doesnt take my clothes off for celebrity.
I wouldnt wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life, so I dont think its necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots, Swift told The Telegraph in 2011.
She's particularly sensitive about baring her belly button, especially to the front pages of the media. In an interview with Lucky magazine four months ago, Swift said anyone who saw her belly button could see other parts of her body that she didnt want people to see. Keeping her photos modest kept away those who would exploit her body for profit, she said.
I dont like showing my belly button, Swift told Lucky magazine. When you start showing your belly button then youre really committing to the midriff thing. I only partially commit to the midriff thing youre only seeing lower rib cage. I dont want people to know if I have one or not. I want that to be a mystery. As far as anyone knows based on my public appearances, they havent seen evidence of a belly button. It could be pierced. They have no idea. If Im going to get some sort of massive tattoo, its going to be right next to my belly button because no ones ever going to see that.
Swift told BBC 1 Radio that she recently spotted the paparazzi taking a photo of her and her friends, who were dressed in bikinis, when they were out at sea. To protect her body image, Swift and her friends then took their own bikini shots, which they posted on Instagram, to co-opt the other ones that were taken by paparazzi.
We go back to the beach and we realize, Okay, so they got pictures of us in our bikinis, like I dont want them to make like $100,000 for stalking us So were like, Get up on the bow of the boat, were taking better bikini shots, so they dont make as much money on theirs, Swift told BBC 1 Radio.
Before the Instagram photo, the lone peek at Swifts body came from a piece of home footage shown in one of her music videos. Other than that, Swift has remained relatively modest in her approach to celebrity.
Part of that may be because of her religious background. Though her specific religious identity is unknown, Swift grew up in a Christian home. Her brother attended Notre Dame University, a Catholic college, and she was recently named a godmother, a primarily Catholic practice although shes never officially articulated her beliefs.
Still, Swifts Christian connection may be a hint as to why she promotes modesty. Christian women, at least as of late, have embraced modest clothing in a number of ways, including the idea that modest is hottest.
Christianity Todays Sharon Hodde Miller, who questions the "modest is hottest" mentality, wrote that women should use modesty as a way to protect and value the female form, much like Swift has. By not exposing or glorifying the female form out of context, young women can start to defend their bodies and promote modest values in their lives.
Language about modesty should focus not on hiding the female body but on understanding the body's created role," Miller wrote. "Immodesty is not the improper exposure of the body per se, but the improper orientation of the body. Men and women are urged to pursue a modesty by which our glory is minimized and God's is maximized."
Swift is one of a few people who have the opportunity to buy .porn and .adult domain names before they go on sale June 1 for $99 because of her celebrity status, BBC reported. Like Swift, Microsoft Office has purchased the domain names office.porn and office.adult.
But the Shake It Off stars decision to buy these domain names may not only be about securing a website that could be used to promote scandalous material. It could also be about protecting her body and embracing a more modest lifestyle, which she's done throughout her career.
Swift has long championed the idea of not showing too much skin in the media. She's never embraced doing sexy shoots and doesnt take my clothes off for celebrity.
I wouldnt wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life, so I dont think its necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots, Swift told The Telegraph in 2011.
She's particularly sensitive about baring her belly button, especially to the front pages of the media. In an interview with Lucky magazine four months ago, Swift said anyone who saw her belly button could see other parts of her body that she didnt want people to see. Keeping her photos modest kept away those who would exploit her body for profit, she said.
I dont like showing my belly button, Swift told Lucky magazine. When you start showing your belly button then youre really committing to the midriff thing. I only partially commit to the midriff thing youre only seeing lower rib cage. I dont want people to know if I have one or not. I want that to be a mystery. As far as anyone knows based on my public appearances, they havent seen evidence of a belly button. It could be pierced. They have no idea. If Im going to get some sort of massive tattoo, its going to be right next to my belly button because no ones ever going to see that.
Swift told BBC 1 Radio that she recently spotted the paparazzi taking a photo of her and her friends, who were dressed in bikinis, when they were out at sea. To protect her body image, Swift and her friends then took their own bikini shots, which they posted on Instagram, to co-opt the other ones that were taken by paparazzi.
We go back to the beach and we realize, Okay, so they got pictures of us in our bikinis, like I dont want them to make like $100,000 for stalking us So were like, Get up on the bow of the boat, were taking better bikini shots, so they dont make as much money on theirs, Swift told BBC 1 Radio.
Before the Instagram photo, the lone peek at Swifts body came from a piece of home footage shown in one of her music videos. Other than that, Swift has remained relatively modest in her approach to celebrity.
Part of that may be because of her religious background. Though her specific religious identity is unknown, Swift grew up in a Christian home. Her brother attended Notre Dame University, a Catholic college, and she was recently named a godmother, a primarily Catholic practice although shes never officially articulated her beliefs.
Still, Swifts Christian connection may be a hint as to why she promotes modesty. Christian women, at least as of late, have embraced modest clothing in a number of ways, including the idea that modest is hottest.
Christianity Todays Sharon Hodde Miller, who questions the "modest is hottest" mentality, wrote that women should use modesty as a way to protect and value the female form, much like Swift has. By not exposing or glorifying the female form out of context, young women can start to defend their bodies and promote modest values in their lives.
Language about modesty should focus not on hiding the female body but on understanding the body's created role," Miller wrote. "Immodesty is not the improper exposure of the body per se, but the improper orientation of the body. Men and women are urged to pursue a modesty by which our glory is minimized and God's is maximized."
