Another media source, mamamia.com, put it this way: “Don’t be alarmed, but right now there’s a 65-year-old woman simulating masturbation on stage in front of 20,000 people. Not only that. She’s getting lapdances from all comers. She’s being touched and rubbed and pulled and groped, tied up, even. A man in a jockstrap, bottom exposed, is pretending to perform oral sex on her.”

Here’s the clincher. “Oh, and her children are watching. Participating, sometimes. Some of them are adults, some of them are kids. It’s a family show that is very definitely not a family show.” As the Daily Mail noted, “The singer, 65, shared a kiss with a topless dancer while donning satin lingerie, before she was joined onstage by her daughter Estere, 11, once again.”

(via Newsbusters)

[In case you’re wondering, Bill Donahue disapproves. Is this the “Like an Anti-Virgin” Tour? As for me, I found this schtick tiresome in the mid-1980s and never did understand Madonna’s appeal. But it really does take a lot more work to sell yourself as a Sex Edge Lord at Madonna’s age, so small wonder even the small amount of subtlety in her routine has long since vanished. — Ed]