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Classical Pornography

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This was done in response to :iconmjranum: 's journal posted here [link] with some food for thought.

The photo's are not mine they belong to Rico Heil (David) and David Monniaux (Venus de Milo), and were used without permission (both were downloaded from Wikipedia).
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Nicely done :-)

A deeper point of confusion would be the less widely accepted classical art images e.g. of sex acts, which decorate finely made pottery as well as the walls of brothels. Some, like the priapus have obvious devotional purposes, but many seem simply to be made specifically to evoke sexual titillation and plenty would be banned from most pornographic web sites.

I think the argument about censorship per se is separate from what this piece so eloqently defends: artistic nudity should be protected from knee-jerk bowdlerisation.