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Although I doubt that public and quasi-public nudity are always bad (e.g. Isaiah, or any painting that uses nudity to depict shame or defeat, etc.), based on the text below I believe that it's a distortion to use nudity in art if the intent is to portray beauty.
Specifically, consider how the text below uses "unpresentable parts." It doesn't say reproductive organs, but I can't think of a more applicable area.
Artists, how do you deal with this text?
(NKJV)
1Co 12:23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,
1Co 12:24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
Specifically, consider how the text below uses "unpresentable parts." It doesn't say reproductive organs, but I can't think of a more applicable area.
Artists, how do you deal with this text?
(NKJV)
1Co 12:23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,
1Co 12:24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,