Thursday, October 22, 2009

Art

So I am reading this book for a friend who is going into psychology (she wants to know my reactions to it). It is not a book by LDS authors, but the book is by Christians. It is also a book directed to women and becoming a better woman. So I'm reading along and I get to this point where the authors (it is a husband/wife co-author book) talk about going to an art show...then the wife points out that in all the thousands of pictures they saw not one was of a naked man, but they saw hundreds of women. That bothered me so bad, I have found even when I studied in my anatomy class or when I see pictures of different cultures and a woman topless it really bothers me. So I was pondering on why, is it wrong...is it pornographic? I couldn't decide. So I asked my husband is art pornographic? So one of the definitions of pornography on dictioary.com is:"Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal." We came to the conclusion that most artists do not paint pictures to elixit sexual arousal, but if a viewer was sexually aroused then it was pornographic to that viewer. I have found for me personally that I can't read certain romance novels because for me they are pornographic, and I'm not talking about the cheesy $5 paperback romance novels, I'm talking good LDS romance novels. It is all in our perceptions and beliefs.
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  1. Me, Myself and IOctober 22, 2009 at 9:57 PM

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