Good thing those pesky artworks are hidden from kids. God knows what would happen if a kid saw a bare breast. My guess is on spontaneous explosion.

well i see nothing wrong with nudity evan sex for kids to look at as its perfectly human and normal . but if you going to make it 18+ to see people having sex ore to look at porn then it folows that same should aply to art that depicts the same things, it only servs to highlight the obserdity of the law and how stupid hamans can be

If these conservative lawmakers keep this up we might as well all wear giant trash bags on our bodies.

lol. I love the mosaics on the statues and paintings... Very artsy!

America is such a pathetic place. "OMG THERE'S A NAKED BREST ON THAT STATUE, BLUR IT OUT QUICK! Phu, close call."

so fucking archaic.

it's art. in fact, forget that. it's the human body. the longer we let fuddy-duddies censor depictions of the naked form, the longer we have problems.

i'll be showing my kids (if i ever have any) artistic recreations of the human body as soon as i can. let's stop being so fucking prudish about the skin we live in. as the last guy says, "it's absurd".

Lot of censorial bullshit. Best thing to do is cave in the skull of the first person who tries to enforce such a stupid and immoral law. And the second, and the third, and so on.

as long as we can cave that skull in with an erect penis

Oh my God, give me a fucking break! I'm sure some Conservatist asshole is behind this.

C'mon people, this law is necessary and you know it. If we don't stop these smut-peddling museums now, then how will you live with yourself when they start peddling concrete dildos shaped like David's penis?

Nice try. I'm sorry to inform you that your opinion does not matter because your comment has too many spelling and grammatical errors.


>> ^westy:
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This is disgusting. This news story is disgusting (blurring out the breasts on classic sculptures, for pete's sake!).

Stop treating the human body as ANYTHING to be ashamed of. NUDITY should NEVER be considered obscene. NUDITY in and of itself, the showing of the body IS NOT and SHOULD NOT be treated as wrong in any way.

You can DO things with naked bodies that can be considered obscene. If you strip off in the middle of a mall and have sex, that's inappropriate, there's a time and a place for that, and I wouldn't want my kids watching two adults going at it like that. BUT, have a man and a woman just walking naked through the mall, doing nothing sexual, just being nude... that's fine by me.

These paintings and sculptures are of the naked form, not of gratuitous sexual acts.

Pixelating the art in the news story... blooooodyyyy hell.

*sexuality

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God, I hate people!

I can't help but notice that your first two bracketed comments aren't capitalized and yet the rest are. You fail.

>> ^deedub81:
Nice try. I'm sorry to inform you that your opinion does not matter because your comment has too many spelling and grammatical errors.
>> ^westy:
well [insert coma here]i see nothing wrong with nudity evan sex for kids to look at as its perfectly human and normal . but [began the sentence with a lower case "B" and a conjunction] if you [Insert "are"] going to make it [Poor sentence structure. Specify subject "it"] 18+ to see people having sex ore to look at porn then it folows that same should aply to art that depicts the same things, it[What is it?] only servs to highlight the obserdity of the law and how stupid hamans can be
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This is somewhat ironic considering a woman depicted in a piece of art generaly has to be nude or close to it to to even make onto a wall for general viewing in a museum. So in other words a woman can't even make it into a museum unless shes naked yet if she is it is considered obscene.
I don't remember off hand who did the study/survey but there was a group that went to numerous major museums in the New York area to take a tally of how many women were represented in art in museums. They then counted how many of these women were nude or partly so. As I remember the vast majority were naked. I think it was the Guerrilla Girls but I'm not certain.
Whomever is leading this "fight against obscenity" conservative or not, they have no respect for art and a complete misunderstanding of what free speech really entails.

It's not porn until we take it in as porn.

That being said, you can take anything and turn it into filth.

Washington monument is a giant erect penis. The liberty bell is a big condom with a little rip. The lady justice of the supreme court suggests S & M, etc etc.

I thought about taking my kids to that "Bodies" exhibition, but I was afraid they would have years of nightmares because of that. You can´t be more naked than without skin. If there is skin, I´m fine taking them there.

deedub81

thanks for taking the time to spell check my writing.



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*fear in the name of American squeamishness. People are afraid of the human body.

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Why is the phrase "you can't legislate morality" only used in the defense of activities that aren't actually immoral, but are under attack by silly religious groups? (i.e., sex, abortion, nudity, free speech)

You can legislate morality. Most laws are derived from a subset of morality. However many people have such a backwards definition of morality that it becomes convenient to separate the two.

Morality, like a just system of laws, is a code of conduct whose adherence tends to promote the common good and prevent people from harming each other, without any superfluous infringement on the freedom of individuals nor asymmetry among the rights of people. Good legal systems are enforceable subsets of such moral imperatives, plus accessories to their implementation such as the collection of taxes, and public works whose service to the common good goes above and beyond any moral imperative.

Agreed 110% spoco2. I recall being punished in Kindergarten for making an anatomically correct drawing. A Travesty!

All this fear and loathing of the human body has roots in *religion

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>> ^Sketch:
God, I hate people!


Don't snitch us out to God, you know how he deals with this type of shit.

Next things next, let's get rid of pesky anatomy text books! Oh, and doctors. After all, urologists and OB/GYN's are exposed to sickening pornography every day...

After that, we'll be bringing in a plan to lop off every dick and tit, and concrete over the vag for all humanity to ensure such filth can never ever hurt the children again...

Seriously, these wankers legislating morality shouldn't be allowed to breed. That way they'll never accidentally endanger their children...

This law has already been repealed. A bookstore owner sued and she won quite quickly.

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>> ^Sketch:
God, I hate people!

Don't snitch us out to God, you know how he deals with this type of shit.


It's just a turn of phrase. There is no god.

I'm not thinking about the museum; I'm thinking about the porn shops. Why must any business go through this hassle?

whatever the news puppets have to say they were blurring out any nudity in the art they were showing. ridiculous.

Seriously, these wankers legislating morality shouldn't be allowed to breed. That way they'll never accidentally endanger their children...


They're not legislating morality, they're legislating bronze age myths that have dubiously been labeled as morality.

>> ^deedub81:
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well [insert coma here]i see nothing wrong with nudity evan sex for kids to look at as its perfectly human and normal . but [began the sentence with a lower case "B" and a conjunction] if you [Insert "are"] going to make it [Poor sentence structure. Specify subject "it"] 18+ to see people having sex ore to look at porn then it folows that same should aply to art that depicts the same things, it[What is it?] only servs to highlight the obserdity of the law and how stupid hamans can be
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who cares...this is not website to look for grammatical errors.
I'm tired of this non sense crap..

Radican islamists would approve

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Marge goes on a crusade against porn but then is confronted by the hypocrisy of her zeal when Michelangelo's David fit's the same definition.

I remember a kindergarden teachers comment about field trips to the museum - the tykes will oggle the appendages of a Venus or David for a few seconds then move on to the far more interesting dinosaur exhibit.

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