I think the over-riding issue here is not necessarily one of artistic merit but one of ethics .

A child of 11, 12 or 13 simply does not understand the latent sexuality they possess. Nor are they able to legally consent to the taking of these photographs. So based on this premise alone it is inappropriate that these photo’s are considered for public viewing.

Sometimes in life a line has to drawn in the sand on what is acceptable and what is not. Despite the possible good taste this collection exhibits it is never O.K. to exploit a child in the name of art.

Therefore the principle of the matter needs to be protected- No photo's of nude children. That is simply common sense more than anything else.

Mr Right: << You know who I'm talking about, CJ Morgan. Do you find the question all that difficult to answer? >>

If Mr Right bothered to read other people's comments instead blowing his odious trumpet, he's be aware that I've answered the question. I would have no qualms about my daughter posing nude for a reputable, bona fide artist, if that's what she wanted to do. However, I very much doubt that she'd want to.

Do you find that answer difficult to understand, or do you have a reading disability as well as a propensity to sexualise naked children?

I guess the next steps will be:

1. Put all naturist clubs out of business.
2. Blindfold parents bathing/dressing their kids.
3. Ban all sex-education in home or at school.
4. Bring back the chastity belt.
5. Start a fig-tree plantation - invest in fig leaves now, major opportunity.
6. Bring back the stork, plant cabbage patches.
7. Ban cameras, pencils, charcoal, paint-brushes - too much potential for sexploitation.

Anyone have other ideas to contribute to my list? Because you'd better post them soon, the next thing to be outlawed will be imagination.

Dear Vanilla,

It's allright - I'm over it.

I was feeling pretty vulnerable and quite "down" when I read your post directed at me on the "God" thread last night.

It actually made me cry.

However, I've replied to that post this morning - and have now moved on.

I don't want to make my email known (please understand). It's nothing personal. I prefer to keep my email private.

But I Thank You for your kind offer. It is greatly appreciated.

Who are you belly
a man or a woman
either way why do you try to personalise attacks on me and my identity

tell me belly
how many times have you heard it said about some mass murderor or rapist that they started out by enjoying hurting their pets , or begain their carreer of stealing by stealing from their mothers purse?

things change gradually

It has often been said [and i agree it is a trueism]
that those doing minour deviations get hardened in time
and need an higher level of fix to get the same high

it is thus with porn

i was raised in the sixties where a climps in the mens magazines was of a pair of panties or the garters [nipples were airbrushed out]

In time breasts and nipples became 'acceptable'though the hairy bits were air brushed into a dense mat,[it is also noted most wrere fat and older type woman]

This progressed to an ever younger 'type' of female ,till today we get gynocological shots that have computer enhanced sheen added on teens.

BUT it happened gradually

Those who previously were satisfied with the artists work have unknowingly been sucked in till now the path of his perversions has become revealed

like boiling a frog in hotwater

like a junjkie needing ever more and stronger booze to get his hit
like the boy who starts by killing his pet cat [because it bit him >to the adult who murders his rape victim because he pre-ejecculated

This debate has revealed how many have been led towards the path of perversion ,guys its not yet too late, mothers if you have been paid [or worse let your children become perverted by deviants AND you are living off imoral earnings, or stand to loose your child

Noting the figures quoted in any phone up poll have been skewed by perverts multi-calling [even so to 45 percent its still petty porn

I wondered if the photographer was into witchcraft?
Its well known amongst the committed christian churches that modern art, drugs, porn, sexual perversion and the occult are interlinked.
I look at the Lord Mayor of Sydney at times and wonder what she gets up too.
Clover Moores look is always towards goth and she has an inclination to support sexual immorality in the form of the gay and lesbian movements.
She even wanted an increase in X-rated bookshops in Sydney as if sex crime wasnt bad enough.
Cops would do well to look into the photographers relationships and where he may just hang his hat from time to time.
The occult frequently pick on young girls and seduce them into their covens to do sexual acts with them.
Ive known this for years and years and years through many testimonies from christian bookshops and through actual action against witches (*The Glen Innes NSW "sacrificed chickens at the standing ring of stones" incident of 2005 which finally got exposed in the Glen Innes Examniner 30/6/2005 through my help and with the help of two local christian ladies).
Cops need to be aware of the many modern artie folks who concentrate on kids.