[southern rock]

Seriously, I am not a prude by any means, but I do not understand the mentality of someone who goes through all the work and trouble of creating a statue, and then deliberately decides to make it naked. Why? You have to wonder what is going on in such a mind. Do they secretly get off knowing that it will be in a very public place and that children will be viewing it? You seriously have to wonder these things. I can't even begin to understand.

[sneakypete]

You have to wonder what is going on in such a mind.

It COULD be that they think the human body is beautiful when in proportion,and that it will never go out of style or become "dated". Unlike clothing,which goes and comes into style depending on what is "trendy".

As for your concern about children seeing a breast goes,"Yes,you ARE a prude!". I have it on reliable authority that even infants have no trouble at all in zeroing in on one of those things. Some have even been known to suckle and get milk from them without any apparant harm to their character.

Then again,what the hell do I know? Mother's milk could be considered a "gateway drug",since every single drunk that nursed from his mother got his start drinking by drinking at her breast.

[Chess]

"Seriously, I am not a prude by any means, but I do not understand the mentality of someone who goes through all the work and trouble of creating a statue, and then deliberately decides to make it naked. Why? You have to wonder what is going on in such a mind. Do they secretly get off knowing that it will be in a very public place and that children will be viewing it? You seriously have to wonder these things. I can't even begin to understand."

Look at the sentence that I bolded in your post.

Do you honestly think that this work of art is harmful to children? The human body is not "dirty" and unfit to be viewed. I do not think viewing a female breast would have any harmful effect on a child. Their minds are not dirty, they are innocent. Adults cause the problem by making children think that they should be ashamed of the human body.