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To: linda_22003
No, there have been plenty of nudes in art throughout history.

Well, yeah. But, with rare exception, the point of the nude art was the glorification of the human form. It was created by gifted artists to uplift the spirit and inspire.

Tittilation was almost always an unintended consequence of the piece.

The purpose of nudes in porn is to tittilate and appeal to the pruient interest, inspiring masturbation.

Art and porn really don't have much in common. Well, except pretty naked ladies. :)

196 posted on 04/11/2006 11:23:39 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
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To: Skooz

You haven't seen "Olympia", then. Or "Dejeuner sur L'Herbe", among others that caused a morality ruckus in their time. They're classics NOW, but they weren't born that way.


199 posted on 04/11/2006 11:25:31 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: Skooz

"But, with rare exception, the point of the nude art was the glorification of the human form. It was created by gifted artists to uplift the spirit and inspire.
"

For sure. I remember being a young teenager, and those Playboy playmates sure seemed glorious to me. They certainly uplifted something and inspired something. Must be art, I guess.


220 posted on 04/11/2006 12:04:38 PM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Skooz
But, with rare exception, the point of the nude art was the glorification of the human form. It was created by gifted artists to uplift the spirit and inspire. Tittilation was almost always an unintended consequence of the piece.

Oh, puh-leeze. If artists had been able to separate glorification from titilation and present only the former, the effect on their patronage would have been more or less the same as the effect on Playboy's circulation if it had presented highbrow journalism without the nekkid wimmin.

226 posted on 04/11/2006 12:21:36 PM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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