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Child Pornography or Art? Is there a line, if so where?

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johnny5:
hopefully he has a pretty good explanation because it looks pretty clear-cut to me.

tania:
he isn't (i think) trying to say that sexual molestation itself is worse than murder, but rather the long term emotional and physical trauma often associated with it. not to belittle sexual abuse in any way, but some victims for whatever reason are able to cope and move on and others end up so scarred that it could be argued death would not be much worse since they have absolutely no chance at having any semblance of a normal life ever again. there's probably other things that could be just as haunting but nothing at the moment really comes to mind.

pwhodges:
I can't give any explanations based on knowledge; but I do know some parents who are very worried about Internet access to pictures of their children, because "paedophiles might use them".  I can see that if the pictures were Photoshopped in a nasty way while remaining identifiable, and then became notorious, it could be highly embarrassing; but what, actually, are the chances of this happening for any particular individual?  One parent also worries about some paedophile identifying their child from a photo and targetting the child for grooming simply because of it.

On the other hand, it is easy to make the pictures accessible only  through a password or a hidden URL, which, say, gives the privacy that a letter has as opposed to a postcard, so perhaps we should simply get in the habit of doing this as simple good practice.

But this has strayed a bit from art...

Paul

Tom:
More pieces to the puzzle, the gallery that was exhibiting Henson's work has just come under fire:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/gallery-under-angry-siege/2008/05/24/1211183177189.html

Another artist defending Henson:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/obscenity-trial-artist-backs-works/2008/05/24/1211183197069.html

I'm starting to wonder if there is an age limit at which people care because, John Elder says in the 2nd article that:

--- Quote from: John Elder ---About 15 years ago Henson produced a series of teenage nudes sprawled across car bonnets, in a manner akin to a nightmarish car wreck. Some of those nudes are on show at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery and have barely raised an eyebrow, let alone spawned a scandal.
--- End quote ---

The original interview with PM Rudd on 2UE, a conservative AM talk-back radio station, in which he condemns Henson's work.
http://media.smh.com.au/?rid=38118

It should be noted that the people arresting and policing the issuse are NSW's police force. Could they be trying save face after the various child-porn issues with a number of high-profile legal people and politicians like Milton Orkopoulos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Orkopoulos)?

clockworkjames:

--- Quote from: Anyways on 24 May 2008, 02:28 ---Why not?

--- End quote ---

Because I personally feel that pictures of naked children is not art, just like I don't think alot of other photography people call art is "art".

I used to paint and draw a fair bit, and the whole medium of photography didn't always seem like art alot of the time, neither did alot of my scribbles but then I guess what is one persons art is anothers rubbish.

A kid draws a picture, is it art? Some people would say no but some people would say yes so on a personal level art is - for lack of a better word - relative.

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