Interesting, ....... people that find the "s" word offensive continue to bring the thread back to the top of the board. 

Aargh > You go to a museum and you will see lots of nakedness in paintings. Manet's Olympia was a row, as was his dejeuner sur l'herbe. Both are now considered masterpieces. You only have to go to Rome and you will see sculptures of nude men and women. It's the thought one person gets, and to prevent that things have to be covered. The sistine chapel in its original state had only nude figures, until someone ordered to cover the sexual parts. I am glad eventhorizon started this thread, and again, some pictures have been deleted, some stay, as far as I am concerned according guidelines of this site. Now about that word in the title, can't you all stop? It has been mentioned so many times on this thread that it starts to take over the core issue. It was a genuine concern by someone of our community. Now leave it at that, and stop insulting please >

Jafo, exactly so!

That means so much to me Bangkokboy. I've never been told off for my sarcasm before...

It wasn't just sarcasm for sarcasm's sake though, but rather my honest appraisal of the situation. All I saw here was very much a kneejerk reaction to something that isn't nearly as controversial or evil as the title of the thread implied. Very Victorian in fact.

To think I almost let the thread die...

https://www.wincustomize.com/download.asp?LibID=13&file=GotWood.JPG&SkinID=2040 not so much as underwear on and erect nipples shapes visible from underneath the top.

What a bunch of prudes! The only thing obscene that I saw was the title of this thread. Any of you guys that think different need to get out more! I laughed out loud when I read some of these messages!

*Kim*

the evolution of society over the past 60 years in particular has been an incessant broadening of the limits of personal experience thru media and personal interaction. this, upon repeated exposure, always establishes a pattern in the general populace of desensitization to and acceptance of that which was formerly considered unacceptable. looking at the history of the civilizations of the world, this process appears, for better or worse, to be irreversible, so arguments about it are frequently fruitless.

sample desensitization: circa 1927, a man in a small town north of Jackson , Mississippi was seen kidnapping a 12 year-old girl from a schoolyard. other witnesses saw him fleeing through town with the girl in the car. when the sheriff's posse caught up with him in the woods, he was burying her body after having raped and strangled her. the occurrance of this type of a crime was so totally shocking and unheard of back then that a mob in excess of 3,000 men from 5 different states surrounded the jail, caved in the wall with a truck, and ripped the perpetrator limb-from-limb in his jail cell. nowadays we see crimes like this once a week, feel very sorry for the victim and family, and very soon have completely forgotten all about it. what was once intolerable has been rendered ignorable by repeated exposure and desensitization.

i'm talking about societal trends, not complaining about art, NOT equating the separate evolutions of art and crime, so don't jump on me.

I don't see anything wrong with the human form.

If the screenshots showed a sexual act, or some sort of hate action or speech, then it would never be let through.

The human form is very natural and not something that I would consider a moral or ethical topic of conversation.

I guess a should quit wandering nude through my house for fear that my 4 year old will see me?

I also don't believe that seeing naked people (I'm talking just the human form, not an "act" of any sort) will cause degradation of society.  There are many places that women can walk around topless and people don't care.  It's the human body- get over it.

KG - i agree with you about the naturalness of the human body, but i'm more comfortable out in the public eye with clothes on - and i suspect that for all your liberal ballyhooing, that you wear clothes to work also.

There are many places that women can walk around topless and people don't care

this is quite true, but there are far, far more places in the world where people do care and won't have it. You should hesitate slightly before blythely belittling the overwhelming majority of cultures in the world.

this thread had gratefully slipped from view. who resurrected it??

let.it.die.

I wondered why that Wood screenshot got so many views. I was thinking some people have some bad tastes in viewing screenshots.

You Rang?