Patricia Heaton Thinks Teenagers From "The Middle" Would Never Exploit Their Bodies Like Teenagers From "Glee"

Everyone is talking about this.

If you've seen a talking head this week, they were probably talking about the Terry Richardson GQ photospread with Glee's Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Dianna Agron. It should be noted that Agron and Michele are 24 in real life while Cory Monteith is is 28, so regardless of the Parent's Television Council statement that the pictures border on pedophilia that's simply not true. And the argument that they are "in character" in the pictures because they're in a school is also less than compelling, since they are styled nothing like their Glee characters (except for Agron who appears in several pictures holding pom-poms.

Dianna Agron apologized if people felt uncomfortable, but says "And if your eight-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry. But I would have to ask, how on earth did it get there?" Her costar Mark Salling says "I mean, come on! We’re obviously not in high school. It’s tongue-in-cheek that we’re in high school… There’s more important things to worry about in the world."

Meanwhile, no one is talking about the exposure of male skin on Glee itself, a show with a huge fan teen base, as opposed to a men's magazine selling a magazine to men with adult pictures. Who is getting the promotional boost here, Glee or GQ?

Chord, Matthew Morrison and Cory Monteith have all had bath and shower scenes.

But on The View some of the ladies were upset over the GQ pics. And guest panelist Patricia Heaton, star of ABC's The Middle said "I think ABC would have something to say, or our producers would have something to say if our actors did sort of a semi-pornographic photoshoot."

The actors in question are 18-year-old Eden Sher and 20-year-old Charlie McDermott, who play her 15 and 16-year-old children on the show.

The irony here is that McDermott, who plays Axl on the show, spends almost all of his time at home wearing nothing but his boxer shorts, pulled down to reveal several inches of treasure trail below the navel. A running gag on the show is his total lack of shame, as well as how fast he can get out of his clothes when he walks in the front door. He eats dinner in his underwear, watches television in his underwear and naps a great deal in his underwear.

It's not just once, it's every episode.

McDermott told Popeater last year "When I auditioned, the whole script scene said I would only be in my underwear. I think it's funny and honestly, I was not at any stage to be picky with work."

You can make the argument that Axl's aversion to clothes isn't about tittilation, and that would be fair. But the show does regularly get him and his football teammates out of their clothes in "awkward" and into situations such as trying to lure girls into a freezing backyard pool at a Memorial Day party, or them sexting their AWOL dates for Valentine's Day.

No homo.

And it should be noted that there are websites dedicated to drooling over screenshots of Axl that are no more created by the network than the Glee photoshoot was.

So my question is this: Is it the near nudity of the Glee pictures that makes them wrong or just that the poses embody straight male fantasies?