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""Your definition includes several terms, especially "obscene", that are purely subjective, depending on their time and place in order to say something falls in that category.

Now this isn't to say that I don't know porn when I see it:: given present North American standards and my own background I can tell when an image is porn or not, and I agree porn shouldn't be here.  That said this is not something that can be defined as black or white.""

I absolutely 120% agree with you.  I knew I was diving into deep water with that one, but was at a loss to express the concept to people like the poster below you who seems unaware that porn exists.  There certainly is a very faint and foggy line there.  I even thought to myself as I posted it that much ART arouses.  The difference is that it has artistic merit - but who is to decide what does and does not.  Well that's a judgement call, one that Im not qualified to make for others, but I can certainly make for myself.

Now though, the owners of the site; well what would they do were they to have to determine whether each thumbnail qualified as having artistic merit?  I'm of the opinion that would perhaps land them in more mess than they are in now.  The lesser of two evils?  I say maybe.  People were taking it to extremes apparently and the site in order to keep up good reputation within the art community needed to do likewise.  

People including myself have mentioned other art sites that do not in any way censor nudity.  Well I would be interested to see if the owners of one of those sites, or museums named would find a SS of one of the old thumbnail pages something they would like to display on thier site.  I will bet my butt that the answer would be no, and any reasonably thinking person would agree.

Some of the more respected art sites, museums, houses might not have as much trouble telling people that they completely suck either - not be so nice when letting someone know that they are creating nothing more than porn.  (I've met a few rather pompous art types in my time).

Yeah when I really think about it, the fact that some of it is even here is incredibly lenient.

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