Quote - I have been extremely amused as a European by the convoluted discussions in this thread, It really demonstrates how North Americans, particularly from the US have a propensity to get their heads stuck up their own a**.

Censorship has no place in Art.

Period.

Where there is censorship there is no art. Your choice is not my choice.

As an artist I don't give a flying f*ck about your kids or your grandma looking at my "inappropriate pictures". They are YOUR responsibility, not mine. If you don't like them looking at them, then stop them looking. Don't tell me not to make them. Don't push your responsibility on to someone else. Not comfortable that way round as you may find the kids will challenge you.

 

The humanitariatism aside, I will throw in my two cents of course to this.

Pornography, in effect, has two precise definitions.  One a person does not need a dictionary to understand.

What is pornographic to the ARTIST
What is pornographic to the VIEWER

No dictionary, or country of origin can clearly define that in one simple, steadfast rule.  You can ask a hundred people, and get a hundred different answers on what pornography, is to them.

As for the children.......

I did, indeed use my child ...... but only as an example, as quite frankly, I paint my artistic nudes right in front of her.  I do not hide them, nor is there any stigmata in my house about it. So, here is my point.....

If my child can not purchase an adult magazine off a public rack, (even when such magazines do NOT advertise front pages with full nudity, and it is, considered an art form), why can you?   No one, is asking, or has asked, you to stop making the art you make.   Changing a thumbnail is a far cry from revolutionary persecutions.

Man......... its a thumbnail!

Perhaps its to my detriment, that I truly do look at a community at large, that I belong to.  Okay, so, I do my thumbnails in a different way.   

It is only a 200x200 pixel max advertisement of what lay beyond.  What lays beyond, I am free to display, am I not?

This is just my opinion of course.  Just as you have yours, I have mine, and I have no desire to change your mind.   It is however, to me, my obligation as a responsible adult, to occassionally abide by the wishes of others.   Since I can go anywhere I wish with something objected to here, and find a home and clientel for it....  it is no use beating a dead horse.