Back to the issue at hand... regarding female nudes... I don't think that an artistic image has to have a story. Part of the challenge is making an image that evokes a response from the viewer and causes THE VIEWER to create the context. There are many world famous photographers who are known for their nudes... and the images are often "bodyscapes" with no inherent environmental context. Light, shadow, texture and pose can tell the story. Drawing a parallel... I once photographed a "landscape" that had no land in it. It is a photograph of a sunrise over water. The "arctic seasmoke" made the water all but invisible. The only physical object is a small sillhouette of a boat in the lower foreground. Other than that, there is a complete lack of physicality to the photograph. It is nothing but color and texture. One would think that it would not be successsful as a photograph, but it has been published nationally and has sold many prints. My point is that, done right, images (including nudes) can evoke a sense of story without physical, environmental context. I have seen Poser images that succeed in this way... as well as many that do not. -ScottK