Rihanna, the next victim

True to the title of her highly successful album, Rihanna is a good girl gone bad. Recent explicit pictures of her posing stark naked have surfaced. One of the pictures has her placing her hand suggestively on her privates. The pictures are currently circulated on entertainment websites such as Perez and ATRL.

While celebrity sex tapes and racy pictures should come as no shock to anyone; to name a few, Miley Cyrus, Colin Farell, Paris Hilton (albeit one can argue Paris has her sex tapes to thank for her socialite career) are all 'victims' of leaked footages, Rihanna's picture controversy comes hot on the tails of a disturbing abuse fiasco.

Chris Brown, her ex boyfriend, also the antagonist in her recent domestic violence case, appeared in the batch of photos; begging the question: Was he responsible for the leak? Brown’s representatives have denounced any connections on Brown’s part in this fiasco, while spokespersons for Rihanna have clamped down on websites and urging them to remove these pictures.

But, as we all know it, graphical celebrity photos will never be fully eradicated on the Internet. Next up on the calendar of Rihanna/Chris Brown watchers? A sex tape slated to hit the web very soon.

It is a pity that these private pictures (no pun intended) have been fed to us. Rihanna, having re-emerged from her February incident when she attended the Met life gala this week, is poised for a very successful comeback. She appeared ferocious and in charge, earning the respect of ours for overcoming her problems.

We do not know if this would negate the great publicity she has had earlier this week; after all, we live in a time where you might see a web video of your parents engaging in a sexual romp.

And while we encourage artistic expression and being comfortable in your own skin, we have but one advice for the ladies: Stop taking pictures of you in a sexual position! They take the classiness right out of you. You will be nothing more than masturbatory material! Do not allow your boyfriends to manipulate you!

And yes, there is no wrath like the vengeance of an abusive and jealous ex boyfriend. You can find yourself the next victim of a sex tape scandal.