As someone else indictaed, nudity isn't necessarily erotica or porn. For that matter, erotica isn't always porn. In a big community like this it's going to be impossible to define what those words mean to everyone's satisfaction. Anyeone who's been to a typical art school has probably had the experience of taking figure drawing classes with live nude models in the classrom. Maybe that's sort of what it's like for medical students...the nudity becomes a non-issue very quickly in the context of your craft or profession. If someone is focussing on genitals for their thumbnail when, say, the full photo is a typical artistic full-body nude, then yeah, that's vulgar, and as we all know plenty of Poser artists are guilty of exactly that: Trying to attract views by being crude. But what if the full photograph happens to be a lovely, artistically executed picture of a woman's breasts? Is that porn? Not to my mind, but there you go...to an extent, it's all in the mind of the individual.

I don't find most nudity offensive at all, certainly not most that I've seen here at Rosity. Those few images which I thought were gross were removed by the admins for crossing the line.

IMO we shouldn't call the person who started this thread a prude. They have a valid view, started an interesting thread, and most importantly, they weren't wagging fingers, ranting, or passing prudish judgement. We might not all agree on this issue, but I think all sides should be able to be heard without fear of name-calling.