No, I won't be posting examples because I do not want to be banned. But I find this a very interesting topic of debate/discussion in almost every Art section for sites.

Art and Pornography, two different things but they share similar things because at one point Pornography could've been considered art and the other way around. To be a bit more specific, lets use the dictionary's definitions for these two words!

art

• –noun
  1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
  2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.
  3. a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
  4. the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
  5. any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.
  6. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?

Theres more but it's a pretty long page.

por·nog·ra·phy

• –noun
  obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.
  [Origin: 1840–50; < Gk pornográph(os) writing about harlots (porno-, comb. form of pórné harlot + -graphos -graph) + -y3]

Now, seeing as the definition of Pornography is using another word, Obscene then we come to this conclusion. What is a commonly accepted view of obscenity? I'm sure everyone here has their own definition about obscenity and what isn't. I know plenty of artists who like to draw the naked human body because it's a marvelous thing to draw, not to mention one of the more complex forms.

With that said, thats where many people start to say that such an image is pornographic, just because it's showing a naked body in it's glory that the Romans and Greeks held to it several centuries ago. Now I personally think that a naked body should either be considered mature content or have no mature content at all seeing as everyones human and at one point sooner or later they will be seeing the naked human form of the opposite gender. (Health class).

Then theres art that shows two naked figures wrestling, hugging, kissing or even fighting among other things. This is another branch off where people say that this is pornography, but yet again my artistic self says it's not.

The next branch, to me is.

One or more naked human or human like thing (furry or otherwise) going along to do sexual things that many of us should know about by now. Thats when I make the line. That to me is pornography. But to others I know it may not be.

So what's your opinion about this very debatable subject?

What is your line between pornography and art?