Lady Gaga and nudity isn't a surprise. She posed in her bare skin for V magazine last summer, and she posts risque photos of herself on social media. So it's hardly shocking to see her in the nude for the cover of Candy magazine.

Candy prides itself for being the first transversal style magazine, and they've had stars like James Franco in full drag and Jared Leto looking like Katy Perry on previous covers.

Gaga is one of a two-part cover series for the magazine. Check out the full NSFW cover here.

"She is literally stripping back the theatrics of trans-culture; exposing a half-done-up face and the 'gender' beneath it all," Refinery29 explains. "Interestingly, and something worth noting, is the outright exposure of her genitals. It's one thing that naked female genitalia made the cover of a magazine; it's another that said genitalia is, for lack of a better phrase, (relatively) au natural ... having an artist of Gaga's caliber go against the status quo -- especially for a publication like Candy -- toys with our perceptions of what's considered normal."

The other cover pictures Marilyn Manson in a dress: