Art or Pornography?

So much conflict. (The steely glare and the provocative
pose, for example.) It engages, but it doesn't please.
- Scott

nude midget...ok...
- totally speechless

Looks like Joan Lunden's Mini Me.
- Bad Mama

bertha brandishes her voodoo doll. take that celine dion!!
- ice queen

Rubenass proportions?
- Butt Out

Horny little devil-ette ain't she ??
- Come hither

Baby got back !!
- Miami Mike

nudity plus a midget equals porn
- let's rent her out

"We represent, the sex industry.
The sex industry.
The sex industry...."
- Mark-o

what next? oompa loompa sex?
- under the rainbow

I can't help feeling that depictions of horrible acts, (such as rape, incest, and pedophilia), must have the same effect upon us as excessive violence. That is a general de-sensitization. I believe that these crimes should not be covered up, but they shouldn't be glorified as an art form either.
- So There


11/04/2002:
	"Jan Saudek's imagery draws upon nineteenth-century photography: his use of hand tinting gives his photographs the intensity and look of hand-tinted daguerreotypes. His work dwells on sexual desire and parody, exhibitionism, fetishism and vulgarity. Saudek, as did Whitman, glorifies all our bodily functions. Despite the fact that some of his photographs suggest rape, incest, or pedophilia, his images, unlike those of other photographers — Robert Mapplethorpe, for example — do not "document" or record but rather embody the artist's dream time realities. But Saudek molds his imagery from a host of deep-rooted, imaginary sources, such as storytelling, childhood memories, folklore, musical impressions and adolescent sexual fantasies. Saudek's images reflect not so much an indexed reality but a magical one, whereby desire and instinct are projected uncensored."