pornography is art, for me.

it's a question of culture and aesthetics, not a question of semantics here.

were you raised to understand sexuality to be a beautiful thing, an ugly thing, a social taboo, a fact of everyday life, or otherwise?

how did your aesthetic preferences develop, and what are they like now?

whether we like it or not, nothing can perfectly match a dictionary definition in this sort of situation--especially one regarding art.

for me, though, pornography is an art form as much as anything else, and nudity itself is not automatically pornography. however, i also feel that because different people are aroused by different things, that i, as an artist, can't draw a line.

sometimes, i guess it just is, or will be what it will.

also, i was astonished to read in this thread that an instance of male nudity (i'm assuming completely uncontroversial) was removed from dA, a site teeming with half-naked, hopefully legal young ladies in various melodramatic poses.

the classical aesthetic, of course, always looked at both genders' nudity with a healthy amount of respect/as objects of great beauty.

it's funny, then, that in a society possibly more patriarchal than the greeks or romans (and in possession of a great sense of honor for them) has no regard for male nudity.

D:

and then...oh...the tangled web of hypocrisies ERUPTS.

i dunno, it's just a lot of that. particularly in puritanimerica, i don't see how art even thrives or if it does. now i just feel sad :/