I do not think threads like this are a reaction to nudity always, but to a series of events that assualt ones state of mind at the time. I stopped viewing many galleries because of the influx of one type of image or another. (one site had an influx of LOTR Images that just got old after the 25th image of Gandalf on the bridge!) Sometimes Galleries become nothing more than flipping through a Mug Shot Book. After awhile they start to blend together as you the viewer stops seeing the uniqueness and starts seeing the simularities. Notice the generalizations posted about images in the Gallery. I have always been a proponent of limited Image Galleries for members. Each member could have only 10 images in their Gallery, (kind of like a Gallery exhibit of up and coming artists where they have to choose what images they place in the gallery.) Those images that win contests or other imagining limit events would not count towards the users total, as long as they left it in their gallery. Being named AOM would also allow you a couple extra slots to your Gallery. I wonder which 10 images some would select if that was all they could have in their gallery.

ratscloset
aka John