Forum: Complaint & Debate


Subject: censorship should be fair

Mesh_Magick opened this issue on Jul 25, 2001 ยท 53 posts


amp-three posted Wed, 25 July 2001 at 5:47 PM

gee atthisstage, youre a real sweetie, you know that? ;) If you want to go strictly art speaking, for thousands of years, the female body has been in nude sculptures, paintings, and on the sides of bathroom stalls. The difference between erotic and art (lets leave erotic art alone for the time being) is that if you look down below on say, the Venus De Milo, you cant tell if Venus was moaning, hot, or even bothered when she was being sculpted. On a male sculpture, well, it isnt too difficult. It is also known that the female body is much more artist, even fluid if you will, than the male body. The curvature, the posture, everything. Say you have a friend over, and youre a guy (which means I fall to that category). If you happened to be in one of the Poser galleries and they see a naked woman rendered, they may raise an eyebrow. Then you tell them that it is art. Well, by standard, whether the friend is male or female, they more often than not agree. Now take the same situation and replace it with a rendered naked guy with a boner in the gallery. Oh its just art. Yeah, whatever. I dont remember seeing him in the Sisteen Chapel. I'm not justifying either way, but the way it was back then has carried over in artists' eyes for centuries. And thus, we end up here. a3-ro3.gif