Young Spartans Exercising

[Rob_Royale]

My father's best friend had a man cave before the term was coined and in it he had hung a huge print of the The Brunette Odalisque by François Boucher. It certainly instilled in me an appreciation for a generous posterior.

 

[dirk2024]

My father's best friend had a man cave before the term was coined and in it he had hung a huge print of the The Brunette Odalisque by François Boucher. It certainly instilled in me an appreciation for a generous posterior.

Now that's a spankable ass!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Wow! That’s crazy! Does no nudity apply to great works of art now? @AH_Mod

Unfortunately, yes, it does.

FWIW the images I used are from Wikimedia commons. This makes like zero sense to me.

An explanation was provided to those of us who posted original art, a year or two ago. It made sense, having seen the explanation, given the circumstances. I've got a dozen or so drawings hidden from sight, in case the policy reverts in future. Meanwhile, no nudity in art.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Meanwhile, no nudity in art.

That is abso-fucking-lutely crazy. Have we become Philestines? This isn’t stills from Mom’s Backseat Tingles.

 

[AG31]

You can re-display your pictures by linking outside DU.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Mom’s Backseat Tingles.

Hmm.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Hmm.

Is there a physician in the house. We’ve got a bad case of Cunīculus Sententiārum.

 

[JGittes]

My favourite is Gustave Courbet's 'L'Origine du monde.'

L'Origine du monde

A close second is Manet's 'Olympia.'

Olympia

For your convenient viewing pleasure, they are both at the same museum in France.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Ooh I love this topic.

I’m a huge art enjoyer and a couple of my stories are directly inspired by paintings.

My latest story here features this piece in one of its scene as the love interest’s favorite. The painting is called “the young martyr,” and it resonates with the LI because she sees herself as something of a martyr. She’s incredibly melodramatic and snobby, and the reference to the painting is meant to highlight that.

 

[MrPixel]

Meanwhile, no nudity in art.

Not even classical art displayed in public at well-established formal institutions having impeccable provenance? This policy is fucking insane.

An explanation was provided to those of us who posted original art

Original art I understand.

 

[BeechLeaf]

One that is muted and suggestive is this Sidney Sime illustration for a Lord Dunsany story. Until you see that the title is The Incubus.

 

[ElectricBlue]

That is abso-fucking-lutely crazy. Have we become Philestines? This isn’t stills from Mom’s Backseat Tingles.

It's the same knee-jerk as Tumblr five or six years ago, with their "no forward facing nipples" policy, which was fucking stupid, and killed off a whole bunch of very good nude self-photographers.

It's putting a fence around the site's written content, I think, which is easier to defend against the righteous right's moral hypocrisy than visual content is. I think the site decided that visual content's simply not worth the fight.

 

[onehitwanda]

https://saartandframes.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JK-V-1-939x939.jpg

"Elegy for a Dead Admiral" by Jack Vettriano. Things I love:

1. she's barefoot
2. she's wearing red
3. you don't see her face, just her strength - sitting there in the wind, upright and unbroken.

It always feels like there's a touch of Dream or Fae to this one.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's the same knee-jerk as Tumblr five or six years ago, with their "no forward facing nipples" policy, which was fucking stupid, and killed off a whole bunch of very good nude self-photographers.

It's putting a fence around the site's written content, I think, which is easier to defend against the righteous right's moral hypocrisy than visual content is. I think the site decided that visual content's simply not worth the fight.

So works housed in our great museums. Museums that allow under 18s to enter, and which accommodate school groups visiting? And works that are seen by many as the purest outpouring of the human spirit. What utter BS.

 

[StillStunned]

It always feels like there's a touch of Dream or Fae to this one.

It reminds me of one of those French films where all the furniture is covered with sheets and there are random scenes of seagulls flying over a cliff, and where at least one person goes to pee with the door open.

It's a nice painting, though.

 

[ElectricBlue]

So works housed in our great museums. Museums that allow under 18s to enter, and which accommodate school groups visiting? And works that are seen by many as the purest outpouring of the human spirit. What utter BS.

The reason given is the increasing amount of legislation around the world (attempting to) protect underage people from pornography on line. I suspect the site got legal advice and thought, fuck it, this is too hard, and said, one sized ban fits all. Having had illustrated content pulled from view two years ago, it's now a shrug from me. There are far worse problems. There's no point ranting on.

 

[EmilyMiller]

The reason given is the increasing amount of legislation around the world (attempting to) protect underage people from pornography on line. I suspect the site got legal advice and thought, fuck it, this is too hard, and said, one sized ban fits all. Having had illustrated content pulled from view two years ago, it's now a shrug from me. There are far worse problems. There's no point ranting on.

I see no issue in calling arrant stupidity arrant stupidity. What the fuck is wrong with the world?

 

[BeechLeaf]

I don't like it, but I can see that it's an easy choice, and for practical purposes (for a written word site made of string and sealing wax where the underlying server is coded in Akkadian cuneiform) the right choice. Don't try to out-think the obscenity and copyright laws of every nation, just apply a safe standard. If 19th-century paintings are exceptions because they're great art, does that let in moderns like Mapplethorpe, and do Bill Henson's underage photos also get exceptions? Easier to apply the same guillotine to everything.

 

[MelissaBaby]

https://saartandframes.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JK-V-1-939x939.jpg

"Elegy for a Dead Admiral" by Jack Vettriano. Things I love:

1. she's barefoot
2. she's wearing red
3. you don't see her face, just her strength - sitting there in the wind, upright and unbroken.

It always feels like there's a touch of Dream or Fae to this one.

Love that. There's a hint of femdom to it, as well.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

Am seriously enjoying giving a bit of time to each of the works suggested here, both the familiar and the stuff that is totally new to me. The bums of Boucher and Canova, the watery maidens of Delaroche and Bassiere, posh girls with heavy eyes in Klimt and Sargent, an incubus, tulips, melty clocks, the red and green of Vettriano and Manet.

 

[MrPixel]

The reason given is the increasing amount of legislation around the world (attempting to) protect underage people from pornography on line. I suspect the site got legal advice and thought, fuck it, this is too hard, and said, one sized ban fits all. Having had illustrated content pulled from view two years ago, it's now a shrug from me. There are far worse problems. There's no point ranting on.

Probably. My problem with all this "We have to protect children!" is who is protecting the rights of adults to have non-confrontational access to adult content? Nobody, apparently. The hypocrisy is completely off the charts, yet nobody in any position of power wants to highlight it out of fear their own zipper problems will be discovered. As is happening right now in the US Congress. Bollocks!

What alarms me is given the supposed reputation that European nations, especially the UK and France, have toward nudity and even sexuality - reference the aforementioned "fine art" - they are being awfully quick to (try to) lock stuff down.

 

[onehitwanda]

Probably. My problem with all this "We have to protect children!" is who is protecting the rights of adults to have non-confrontational access to adult content? Nobody, apparently. The hypocrisy is completely off the charts, yet nobody in any position of power wants to highlight it out of fear their own zipper problems will be discovered. As is happening right now in the US Congress. Bollocks!

What alarms me is given the supposed reputation that European nations, especially the UK and France, have toward nudity and even sexuality - reference the aforementioned "fine art" - they are being awfully quick to (try to) lock stuff down.

"Protect the children" is the crowbar through which Internet anonymity will be erased.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

That is abso-fucking-lutely crazy. Have we become Philestines? This isn’t stills from Mom’s Backseat Tingles.

IIRC Michelangelo's David had his genitals covered at one point during Michelangelo's lifetime. We're still having that debate to this day, aren't we?

 

[EmilyMiller]

IIRC Michelangelo's David had his genitals covered at one point during Michelangelo's lifetime. We're still having that debate to this day, aren't we?

Yes we are. And sex is still seen as something shameful, not wonderful

 

[MrPixel]

IIRC Michelangelo's David had his genitals covered at one point during Michelangelo's lifetime. We're still having that debate to this day, aren't we?

I was reading up on that. There was a period (1800s?) where many of the reproductions spread around the world were "tastefully modified" by local artists, emasculating the poor fella and pasting a cast fig leaf over the injury.