Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Nudity

Purr3D opened this issue on Nov 28, 2001 ยท 19 posts


jstro posted Thu, 29 November 2001 at 9:18 PM

My kids are under 17 and go to the St. Louis art museum at least twice a year, where there are nudes on display right out in the main galleries. The art museum is not rated R. There are even some nude Cherub bronzes in public fountains in this town. Outside! My point is that there is a huge difference between nude art work, erotic art work and pornography. Poser is a 3D art package developed to enable people to generate art centered around the Human figure. Some of those figures are inevitably going to be nude. There are restrictions in the galleries here that prohibit pornography, and even limit eroticism (there IS a difference). Therefore most of the nudes in the galleries are just art. Good or bad art, just like with everything else, but just art. I do think that it would help if people that post nudes would consistently check the Nudity flag AND not include it in the thumb nail, so that those that ARE offended by it could avoid it. It does not really help much if you check the Nudity flag and then post a thumb nail with the said nudity in it, does it? That I totally agree with, since it takes nothing away from the artist and protects the sensibilities of those with more conservative views. And it would help keep children from unintentional encounters with nudity. Face it, if they WANT to see it, they can find just about anything on the Internet; the Renderosity galleries shouldn't be you biggest concern in that regard. jon

 
~jon
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