Is all nudity pornographic?
por·nog·ra·phy n.
[list=1][*]Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. [*]The presentation or production of this material.[*]Lurid or sensational material: “Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the... pornography of the era” (Morris Dickstein). [/list=1]
\Por*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a harlot + -graphy.] 1. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
Why do we associate nudity solely with sex, when we are born nude? We bathe nude. Some of us sleep nude.
Do they really need age warnings at nude (not erotic) photography sites, when people of any age can go to a museum and see anatomically correct sculptures and paintings? Or better yet, they can just take of their own clothes and look in the mirror! And why can we see tv commercials with nude children (images which are only sexual to perverts who see them that way) but a nude adult is forbidden and gets any film an arbitrary "R" rating?
If we lived in a society where the nude body was respected as a part of human nature and not treated as purely sexual, would there be fewer sex crimes committed? And would there be such a need for women to reveal their body parts in tight clothes?
I'm not saying we should all be NUDE ALL THE TIME. Just to lessen the stigma against nudity and to alter it's role in society. I don't find this artwork pornographic or sexual in anyway. I think it is romantic and nice.![]()
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