In some respects, I can't help but feel that our society brought this onto itself. We lived through the sexually repressed 50s, then pretty much blew the barn doors off in the 60s and 70s, and never looked back. But we forgot, as we always do, that with freedom comes responsibility. We never gave ourselves the chance to learn, as the Europeans have known for decades, a healthy appreciation for sex: instead, in the Great American Way, it became a platform for politics and merchandizing -- and when was the last time you saw either a politician or a Madison Avenue product exhibit responsibility? :) So we muddle this ill-thought-out idea about sex and sexuality and couple it with our great societal standby: "individual freedom over all" -- and this is what we get as a result. By the time someone noticed there was something slightly amiss, it was way too late, and now we're all trying to figure out what's right and wrong and appropriate and not -- and so we wind up with judges in Vancouver declaring child-porn-S&M stories as "meaningful". So when some "artiste" says, "Hey, I'm just celebrating the beauty of the female form, like all the great artists!", I say, "Pardon me, but that's a lot of bullcrap, and you know it, bud." While I'm sure some of them are genuine in their intent, far more of them are getting their jollies off in public, and they get away with it pretty much because we let them. "I'm just displaying the innocence of a child." Like hell you are, and don't try to pull that line on me. I don't know what the answer is, but I know one thing for sure: we have to all start taking some more responsibility for ourselves around here. I know how much we all loathe trolling in the galleries, but dammit, if we don't speak up and voice our concerns when images in dubious taste show up, we might as well just say screw it and make this place another Renderotica and Thralldom. We're practically there now, in light of some of the stuff in the gallery, and I don't think anyone here can deny that. And before the flames begin, this doesn't even begin to imply some kind of "no nudity" rule, even though I can tell you right now there will be some knee-jerk reactionary out there who will assume otherwise. You wanna do nothing but naked women? Fine, go for it. In Poser it's a snap, and we all know it. But while you're celebrating the beauty of the female form, let's make sure it's a true celebration, okay?