Wow, I just stumbled onto this discussion. Very interesting stuff. Lots of people are making some very valid points; and several people are making some pretty asinine ones as well.

"nude children is child porn. no matter what poses, and or objects are in it." Firekath

Needless to say, by your narrow definition I guess that counts for photography, as well. When we gave our now four-month-old baby his first bath, my wife and I, as parents have done since cameras got cheap enough for the average Joe and Jane to afford, took photos of the event (I also took pictures moments after his birth; oops, he was naked then, too). When we went to get the digital photos output, the pimply-faced shithead kid at WalMart gave us a bunch of static because in one of the baby's bath photos, if you looked reallllly close, you could see his wee lil' dingus right there near the water's surface. The kid refused to allow us to keep the print; said he was going to keep it, bring it to his supervisor's attention and call the proper authorities. At that point the situation got really ugly...I snarled and yelled, other customers were solicited for their support (which, oddly enough, all of them within earshot were happy to lend), my wife cried, it was insisted by myself that the store manager be called immediately, it was insisted to the store manager by my wife that the police be called immediately, the store manager was told by myself that he was to have his employee release ALL of my photographs or I would "have my attorney so deep in your ass that his yarmulke will be hanging out of your mouth". Finally the store manager relented, returned our photos of our beautiful boy, in his controversial 'nude' state of being, and sheepishly apologized, saying that "with all of the obscenity laws in place, the company had to be very careful to protect itself from liability."

What's the purpose of the JettBoy's long-winded tale? The Aseops Fables-like moral of the story? Pretty simple; contrary to what some may believe, not ALL representations of nude children are pornographic in nature. If someone honestly believes that, I would have to go out on a limb and say that they know very little about art, very little about children and very little about pornography. I hear WalMart is always hiring...