if you tell me what an eroticised picture is, I might be able to respond Emily, I daresay that two minutes wandering in the Poser gallery would tell you exactly what it is. And insofar as what might be in the artist's head... well, sometimes it's far more obvious than the artist probably wishes it were. There's a world of difference between the images in your gallery (and quite nice ones they are, too, if I may say so) and the barely-disguised little erotic fantasies of some people around here. You're right: there's a big difference between nudity and blatant sexuality. Sometimes that chick in the temple can be fully clothed and exude all kinds of sexuality. But my issue goes a little deeper than that right now. We hear all the time about the "celebration of the human body" that these "artists" hoist as their standard and banner. Uh-huh. If one were really celebrating the human body, it would be in all its various forms, not just the Budweiser Swedish Massage Team. Someone laughably posted a long time ago that, if aliens were look at our Poser gallery, they would go away with a very skewed sense of people and women in particular. I guess the "celebration" is confined to pretty much just gender and just one body type and just one skin colour and, as EA points out, pretty much just one age bracket. And that's so lamely predictable, on many levels. Even more so, these days, it seems. We've become such a sexually obsessed society here in North America -- not in the way the Europeans see it, which is a far more healthy POV, IMHO -- but in a merchandised, sell/sell/sell kind of way that reduces everything to its sexual component. Seen the new ads for Bridgestone Tires? We're talking tires here. You know, for cars. The new campaign zeroes right in on the under 21 bracket and turns automotive tires into a 30-second sexual frenzy. And they ain't the only ones: everything, from 0911 on down, is turned into a sexual platform, as if we can't express ourselves any other way anymore. It is indeed the dumbing-down of America.