"It's the artist, not the, er, tool." Indeed - but try explaining that to the parents, esp. when they have a program to point to. With mere chalk and pencils, they have a harder time blaming the faculty, since those are rather common items in a school. However, with a full-blown render and .obj files including said cock stored on school servers at the teacher's behest, it's rather tough to tell the school board "err, not our fault, guv - he posed it all by himself..." If/when I have kids, they'll be taight about what sex is and about the human body when I determine they are mature enough to deal with the information. Most parents feel the same way, and since kids all have different ages at which this maturity happens... well, you can see the nightmare that would ensue if we were to short-circuit the process any. As a secondary/undergrad-level instructor (teaching students from 16 years and older), I could probably get away with having a 'full-featured' Vicky in an art class (err, I would also have to teach art instead of Comp. Sci as well.) OTOH, lower-secondary and junior-high teachers (kids 12-16 years old) would get fired in a heartbeat if they went about flashing an anotomically correct Vicky or Mike (and in the case of 12-year-olds, s/he would prolly get prosecuted). /P