I think we have Frank Frazetta and Boris Valejo (excuse me if I totaly mangled their names) to thank for the nude chicks in impractical armor with swords and little else. To be honest, these 2 artists are so popular and famous and their artwork inspired a lot of people to do the same kind of thing. Thanks to Poser and some skilled modelers, many folks without artistic skills now have the ability to create their barbarian babes. I got into poser because I wanted to be able to make alien fiends versus damsels in distress images and I couldn't for the life of me draw worth a crap by hand, so Poser is my tool, and those are the types of images I LIKE TO MAKE. I guess that's what it all boils down to, you see so many of those naked chicks with swords images, it's because that's the type of image those people like to make. Plain and simple. They aren't necessarily making the pictures for the benefit you the viewers, they are making them for themselves and are just sharing. my 2 cents. Davo