“Art, we were told last week, is about “giving people dignity”.

Yeah, right.

Dignity is the last thing reflected by a human sans togs.

I would like the people who defend photographs of kiddies and adults being on public display to advise me just what they get out of seeing a nude infant or a nude adult looking glumly into the camera.

You say that it’s not pornographic in any way, and I agree with you. But, what is the point of distributing naked photographs of anyone?

There might be a certain art in Ruben’s pictures, but where is the art in a photographed child or adult?

Jay Thompson

Good post.

The feminist and ethical arguments within this issue have been buried under the same old avalanche of tedious tanties about wowsers trying to spoil everyone's fun/hold us back/keep us holy. The same emotional blackmail spouts forth on cue whenever the ethics of pornography gets debated.

lol

You're quoting Andrew Bolt's cut-and-paste (and cut some more) job where he left out half the essay, manipulating it to say something completely different? Pull the other one.

Just joining in saying nothing about nothing.

!@#$ing feminists again. Check this woman's submission history. Completely biased, sexist rubbish.

The sooner Australian sexual radicals stop comparing themselves to the greatest painters in human history,

the sooner we can actually discuss artists who have already admitted to being pornographers. THe Tate Gallery is of a similar view.

We can also debate the hundreds of Japanese schoolgirls indecently assaulted each day by the fan club of the same 'art'.

So don't tell me it isn't porn when the person doing it, says it is porn. That's the context for the naked six year old.

'Schoolgirls, popular figure in traditional Japanese pornography, have featured repeatedly in Araki’s pictures

This picture is one of a series showing girls in school uniform bound with rope using traditional Kinbaku techniques. The subject is seated on a concrete surface, her legs folded innocuously on the ground beside to her right. To her left her satchel lies on the ground. A packet of Lucky Strike cigarettes and a couple of sex toys have been placed on the floor in front of the satchel, as though they have fallen out of it. The model’s arms are bound behind her and looks limpidly out of the picture at the viewer.'