The protection of children is a notable and natural emotion. Any propagandist worth his or her salt knows that this perfectly natural desire is readily bent to the purposes of social control, regardless of relevance to the actual issue of protecting children: Socrates was forced to drink a cup of hemlock "to protect the youth" of Athens. The Nazis condemned the whole of modern art, particularly Jewish, for being "degenerate". The extermination of social "undesirables" in the Third Reich was "justified" as necessary for the protection of European children and culture. Various communist regimes have similiarly outlawed "obscene"art and imprisoned the artists responsible .. all in the name of decency. While I personally find a great deal of what is called "art" ridiculous, revolting, and unworthy of use other than lining a garbage can, ... I am thoroughly frightened of those who would use the power of the state to repress that which I, or anyone else,do not like. The anger expressed by Marque is a normal reaction to one who has experienced abuse as a child, and is the most destructive lasting aspect of child abuse. The rage he expresses in minor compared to the rage seen in the eyes of the mug shots of those on Death Row. That rage, in it's extreme, has been acted out by Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, et al. That rage is also portrayed in the violent art seen on other Poser sites .. and is a visual expression of the rage felt by many artists of abuse they have experienced or have picked up as family tradition. I expect that the majority of so-called "erotic" art is, in reality "rage" art ... traceable to child abuse. But the new law doesn't proscribe "rage'art. Keep in mind the fact that there are people collecting your names from this site and other Poser sites to turn over to the Feds .... and it makes no difference how clever you think you are ... they are out to put you away.

Gordon