Is artistic nudity okay?

[OldTimesCruelty]

Basically everyone is.

Wrong. Read what I posted along with the links. And if everyone actually was one, then nobody would EVER have casual sex.

 

[DollIsMine]

Wrong. Read what I posted along with the links. And if everyone actually was one, then nobody would EVER have casual sex.

I'm already familiar with that particular neologism. I daresay most women and many men would agree that having an emotional connection to someone greatly enhances their sexual attraction to them, and nearly every human being needs some form of emotional reaction to get in the mood. Virtually no one experiences sexual attraction in a purely logical and abstract way. I really don't see 'demisexuality' as a very useful label, but then again I don't see it as beneficial to categorize sexuality beyond the broadest strokes, either.

People can and do form instant emotional bonds so casual sex can and does happen with folks who need the emotional aspect to make it happen. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard one of my friends say "I just felt like we had the connection," in the context you would imagine, I would have many dollars. Emotional connection is also how I narrate my own sexuality even when it happens at a distance the internal feeling is that there's some connection between us.

IMO if we didn't live in a society that pushes men into relating to others as objects and that denies women the ability to fully express their sexuality, even to themselves, we would almost all of us behave as 'demisexual.' Which is another way of saying I think that word describes a significant aspect of human sexuality common to nearly everyone and for that reason don't think it's a very useful label.

It also doesn't help that tumblr seems to be the birthplace and most common place to find that label, among a whole slew of needlessly-specific categories. There's a special kind of social phenomena happening in online communities like that involving a kind of identity tribalism that makes it impossible to take their self-descriptions, so packed full of recently-invented words, at face value.

 

[MrMoe]

Good thing I decided not to do the live nude thing, because I found out this week they're going to do a male nude. Definitely not going to hang around for that.

 

[Saint Caliga Glenwalgens]

Is artistic nudity okay?

You mean inappropriate content. No.

 

[trentlogain2]

hmm. is this a chance to glory in weaknesses?

i think not. i probably couldnt do it without offending somebody or causing a stumblingblock.

 

[FredVB]

Good thing I decided not to do the live nude thing, because I found out this week they're going to do a male nude. Definitely not going to hang around for that.

Yes, if you could not handle the nudity of the male model, it would not be well for you to participate where there was nudity of a female model. But in the perfect design from Yahweh God it was not meant to be so.

 

[redblue22]

it seems to me that a great deal of the finer things in life require an endless humorous stream of self-deception to appreciate. me? I'm a simpleton who just sees that rather shallow surface where a pair of knockers are just that.

 

[MacFall]

The question isn't whether the nudity is okay or not. It's whether you're okay with it or not. If it tempts you to lust, then it's not okay for you. If it doesn't, then there's nothing wrong with it for you.

EDIT: After reading the thread, if artistic nudity is no less sexual than inappropriate content, then there must be something wrong with me, because it doesn't do anything for me at all.

 

[Hawthorne]

(blind post)

Provided that the artistic nudity is Pre-Raphaelite in nature, or is painted by by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, or one of the other great realistic painters, I have no problem with it. In fact, I would not be uncomfortable having a print of Bouguereau's Evening Mood or Nymphs and Satyr on my wall. For that matter, I wouldn't mind having a print of Rossetti's Venus Verticordia, even though Jane Burden wasn't my favourite of his models.

The works are not sexually charged, and--especially in Bouguereau's case--the colouring is spectacular. I have one of his prints (Youth - non-nudity), but he is one of a few artists whose prints I buy on sight.

I understand why some people are against nudity in art, and for some people, it would be wrong to collect it. I do not feel it is wrong that I appreciate some artistic depictions of nudity.

 

[garydoc]

Nude art or photography is not inappropriate content in its simple nature. A naked body is a naked body and there is nothing wrong with that. What we bring in our hearts and minds can make simple nudity inappropriate contentographic. Nudity is neutral, unless we make it something it should not be.

 

[ks777]

Nude art or photography is not inappropriate content in its simple nature. A naked body is a naked body and there is nothing wrong with that. What we bring in our hearts and minds can make simple nudity inappropriate contentographic. Nudity is neutral, unless we make it something it should not be.

NOOOOOOOOOO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!

 

[MehGuy]

Looking at artistic nudity turned me into a wild animal.

Now society has to deal with me roaming the streets.

 

[Going Merry]

Well I think this should be pretty obvious lol
Nudity it self is not wrong. Being naked is not a sin.
Seeing someone naked is not a sin.

...But if your heart is not in the right place it's sin.
If you go around showing your body to be promiscuous then that is sin.
If you go around and your boobs fly out because they have wings then that is not sin.
Simply being naked, to do art, is not sin.
But if for you you lust after her then it is sin.
Now I don't think looking at someone and seeing them as beautiful or even attractive is sin lol, but lusting after her is

 

[Blank123]

oh good. this thread is back. yay. and so on. and so forth.

 

[toastface_grillah]

Well I think this should be pretty obvious lol
Nudity it self is not wrong. Being naked is not a sin.
Seeing someone naked is not a sin.

...But if your heart is not in the right place it's sin.
If you go around showing your body to be promiscuous then that is sin.
If you go around and your boobs fly out because they have wings then that is not sin.
Simply being naked, to do art, is not sin.
But if for you you lust after her then it is sin.
Now I don't think looking at someone and seeing them as beautiful or even attractive is sin lol, but lusting after her is

 

[Guy Incognito]

 

[Jupiter Drops]

lol when dis come back


here's something more artistic for yall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsvKvg-Qh0M

 

[ks777]

Haha, you and that dubstep cat..

 

[Timyone]

Blind post
I work as a nurse and see people naked, I don't have a prob with it though,and not many people are my age, and most of the time it isn't too much, I try and get female nurses in though

 

[Nom De Guerre]

Meh, it doesn't cause me to lust...it's just art.