Well first, I assume that you have discussed or would discuss it with your parents first. Ultimately, you're the one who’ll get blamed if his mug ends up on the evening news :-) If this were the 1950s I might be more concerned, but kids these days have access to the freaking internet. Heck, there’s more sex ‘n sin in Time magazine these days than there used to be in “adult” publications. My point is that there’s nothing in Poser that he hasn’t seen elsewhere in far more detail if so inclined – Vicky doesn’t even have genitals. As for Poser fostering some latent pornographer gene, as gagnonrich said, if so inclined, he’s already done it on paper. If he finds 3D nudity more compelling than the real deal readily available, then at least, he’ll probably turn out to be a good nude artist/pornographer/whatever.

 

I’m not sure of your gender. If you are a male, then you probably know that the fear of turning a 15 year old boy into a hornd.. excuse me, a being with a rather enthusiastic interest in sex, is like the fear of running out of ice cubes on the Titanic. If you have serious doubts, you can probably find a professional counselor, perhaps on the internet, for free or cheap and ask them. I’d actually be interested in what they would say. Nothing is 100%. I’m sure there are a few adolescents with specific problems who might be harmed, but I would think that they would be the rare exception. It does sound though like your concerns are less about harm than the icky-ness factor maybe? If you gave him $100 he might buy drugs (or porn), a knife, he might harm someone etc. etc. At least with Poser, you can discuss his art with him. If you have an open, comfortable relationship and he does nudes then you can discuss that if you want.

Since IMO, nudity does not automatically equal pornography he could do nude Vickies and be solidly within the mainstream of art no? If he does a nude render and you are going to consider it a bad thing and become dismayed, without regard to its nature, then maybe you shouldn’t get Poser for him. He may end feeling that he has to hide some of his best work from you. Point him to the free DAZ Studio download and you won’t have subsidized the process.

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