jhmcd2 opened this issue on Apr 10, 2008 · 306 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 11 April 2008 at 3:35 PM
There are -- technically prurient - images here, too. So it's best to avoid any potential confusion as to what's intended in a given picture, when the subject is underage.
Just like at Rotica -- and for some (although not all) of the same underlying reasons.
BTW - People talk about classical art as if everyone living back then were all prudish. Now that's truly funny. :lol: Medieval & 'classical' cherubs weren't always so innocently intended. Read some medieval literature. For whatever reasons, this current generation pridefully thinks that it invented......uh......'amorality'. When the fact is that it's existed for as long as we can look back & have knowledge. In fact, many ancient civilizations were far more outré than we pride ourselves on being now.
But, it's a fact that we're gradually getting there -- back to it. Read some more ancient history to see what happens next.