ChuckEvans opened this issue on Dec 01, 2003 ยท 71 posts
Orio posted Mon, 01 December 2003 at 7:35 PM
BEGIN QUOTE In the real world, I can choose to go into a gallery or a museum. I get a little brochure and it tells me whether or not what is inside is something I want to view. If I am not interested, I can leave again. There is a big difference between that and the intrusive world of the Internet where things appear on my screen that, given any choice, I would not view. END QUOTE What do you do with museums such as Mus d'Orsay in Paris? I don't think a brochure or even a book of it exists, that represents or mentions ALL of the thousands of paintings and statues exhibited. Also because there are regular turnovers to what is exposed. The Orsay Museum pullulates of nude pictures and statues. There is no nudity warning on them, no screen to hide them from casual viewers. Amongst the paintings exposed, there is also the famous "Origin of the world" by Courbet. I don't describe it here, I think it's famous enough for most people here to know of it. Well, that painting is exposed in a very well lighted room where everybody can see it. There are many young students and even children visiting the museum. You can meet them everyday, every time. I haven't noticed any of them to be shocked or scandalized by what they can see. Also, I go to Paris regularly, and I haven't noticed any particular moral decay in the costumes of this city which is daily exposed without "protection" to many of the most beautiful, most naked, and most uncensored depictions of artistic nudity ever made. I think that places like Renderosity are much MORE "controlled" (I won't use the "other" word for peace's sake) ;-) than most of the art museums worldwide. That equals to say that I think it's much less probable to be hit by "intrusive nudity" here at Rosity or at DAZ than it is in any of the major museums of modern art all over the world.