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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 151586" data-attributes="member: 891">Re: Nudity - Art or Porn?A year or two ago here in the San Francisco Bay Area they put up a bunch of billboards about breast cancer awareness.It has a picture of a woman who had had a full mastectomy (sp?) and thus no longer had breasts being shown topless.Very appropriate to the subject matter.They were pulled down by city government before the first day was done.A bunch of those 'mid western imports' that came in with dot-com boom went up in arms protesting sexual obscenity or something...Americans are absurd sometimes. The same day coming back from lunch I passed an Ad about getting checked for Aids that had two nearly nude men 'getting down to business' depicted on it. That billboard stayed up for a month or two if I recall correctly. Much more sexual, but no actual nudity.I've no issues with the art in the Mongoose books. It all seems relevant to the subject (unlike the cheese on the Avalanche covers which was always mis-drawn and not representative of the nature of the book).I ought to get Fahla published...Being a 'classical setting', it would likely have a lot of full male and female nudes in casual settings like bath houses, slave auctions, religious events, sailing, athletics, gladiatorial, and so on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 151586, member: 891"] [b]Re: Nudity - Art or Porn?[/b] A year or two ago here in the San Francisco Bay Area they put up a bunch of billboards about breast cancer awareness. It has a picture of a woman who had had a full mastectomy (sp?) and thus no longer had breasts being shown topless. Very appropriate to the subject matter. They were pulled down by city government before the first day was done. A bunch of those 'mid western imports' that came in with dot-com boom went up in arms protesting sexual obscenity or something... Americans are absurd sometimes. The same day coming back from lunch I passed an Ad about getting checked for Aids that had two nearly nude men 'getting down to business' depicted on it. That billboard stayed up for a month or two if I recall correctly. Much more sexual, but no actual nudity. I've no issues with the art in the Mongoose books. It all seems relevant to the subject (unlike the cheese on the Avalanche covers which was always mis-drawn and not representative of the nature of the book). I ought to get Fahla published... Being a 'classical setting', it would likely have a lot of full male and female nudes in casual settings like bath houses, slave auctions, religious events, sailing, athletics, gladiatorial, and so on. [/QUOTE]

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