Posted by alexandra_k on December 4, 2004, at 10:36:31
In reply to Re: human nature, posted by Gnepig on December 3, 2004, at 19:28:24
> Alex, I don't know who you are responding to, but I just want to clarify my perspective. Oogling was never mentioned as to a degree of enjoying nude photography.
Oh, sorry I certaintly did not mean to 'accuse' you of oggling. I never got that from your posts - that one wasn't directed to you. Actually it wasn't addressed to any poster here and I do apologise for the phrase.
>(not to be confused with pornography).
Yeah. I have no problem with nude works of art. I do think that there is a fuzzy line between art and porn, but I guess I would put the sort of 'explicit' stuff we have talked about, and sexual acts at the pornography end of the spectrum... Maybe the difference also is a function of what ones purpose is in looking at the 'art'. Appreciation of form may be different to using it as a munster aid (if you get me). Not that I think that there is anything wrong with this as a matter of principle, it is just that it is not to my taste. If my partner liked to do this then I suppose that I would just want them to be discrete about it - in just the way that it sounds like you are.
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