nudity in art?

[ijustwanttheTruth]

I liked it, you did a good job on that. I definitely don't see anything perverted or lustful about it, at least in my opinion. It came out very cool and artsy.

thank you muchly! yay. i got two affirmative votes

 

[iTOREtheSKY]

That's great...such a talented little bugger you are! I don't see how anyone could ever find something wrong or dirty in that...if so,man you really need Jesus in a bad way. lol

 

[ijustwanttheTruth]

i really appreciate that bc i truly mean nothing dirty in it to me, it's art. hence the question i posed to all my good bretheren and sisteren. hahaha. but especially my brethren

 

[Tintin]

I struggle with lust (all guys do) but those photos are nothing but art, certainly not a stumbling block.

 

[jinx]

art to one person could be porn to another.

 

[ijustwanttheTruth]

people don't get to change the definitions of an already existing principle. pornography is dictionary-defined as

1: the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement


2: material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement

you don't get to redefine what is porn and what isn't. it isn't subjective. it either contains sexually explicit material or it doesn't. and nudity is very different than pornography. BY DEFINITION, something must contain sexual imagery or images of sex itself to be classified as such.


something MIGHT be sexually exciting to one person that isn't to another but that is a completely different matter. especially since some people are exceptionally turned on by inanimate objects.

 

[jinx]

I see nudity as porn because it isn't modesty and can lead to other things.

 

[ijustwanttheTruth]

again. you don't get to redefine what porn is. your argument is invalid

 

[jinx]

if it isn't modest it's porn cause it could be a stumbling block for someone out there.

 

[ijustwanttheTruth]

^_^ i posted the link to my art so late in the thread that no one still checks it. actually. i think the majority of people don't follow threads loyally. they just say their piece and move on.

 

[oOfallen_angelOo]

Depends on her pose really. If it's like pornographic then yeah it's sexual; but if she's just like bathing or something then it's more artistic.

We draw nudes of people at my school to practice strengthening artistic skills. It feels more like how you feel when you see a naked child, ( hopefully that doesn't turn anyone on 0_0) like you recognize the nudity but that's all it is is lack of clothing.

 

[Donkeyfish07]

I don't think nudity itself is a bad thing personally. God made us naked. The human mind perverting things is more of an issue than whether someone has clothes on or not in my opinion.

 

[ijustwanttheTruth]

ooooh 71 votes and the majority think yes! this poll has gotten way more attention than i anticipated. i do greatly wish however i had included a gender option in the poll. i wanna know how many of those yes's and no's were men.

 

[Nautilus]

I saw nothing even questionable in that link.

I mean there will always be people too weak to see things like that, but then Im not one to quarantine my own existence because John/Jane Doe, cant control his/her lust. Yes this makes me a strict disagreer on the whole stumbling block thing.

 

[secularhermit]

Put me a FAT silhouette and I don´t see it art, not sensually. Later on show a thin, nice woman and I think it "art". Nudity is not art, but an appeal to our sensuality and body drives (and no matter how old I would be, they still there, and slows)

 

[secularhermit]

If it were a man figure, how does a woman really react? Certanly it´s not the way a doctor could look at me when I´m in a hospital, unless she becomes blind or I´m totally ugly to her likes

 

[RickyZ]

ooooh 71 votes and the majority think yes! this poll has gotten way more attention than i anticipated. i do greatly wish however i had included a gender option in the poll. i wanna know how many of those yes's and no's were men.

That would have been interesting data