Isn’t it amazing that you have to have a license to drive a car, own a gun, or walk a DOG, but any idiot with working genitals can have kids. That never ceases to astound me.
I bring this up because of something that happened at work today. The store that I work at sells magazines. One of the magazines that we sell is the amazingly informative and user-friendly “Digital Photographer”. I walked into the office to do some stuff today and noticed a stack of about 15 “DP” magazines on one of the desks. I flipped through it, glancing at a terrific article on black and white photography (a personal favorite), noting some very tasteful nudes on my way to this article.
I happened to bump into my store manager on the way out of the office and asked if he wanted me to display them. “No.” He responded. “They contained inappropriate images.”
Okay.
Who gets to decide what’s inappropriate, I wonder? And if my manager made this decision, rather than it being made at the corporate level, then I have to say “Shame on you. You call yourself a Christian and yet you have the gall to refer to ANY of God’s handiwork, especially something as wonderfully-wrought as the female body as “inappropriate”? Who are you to judge the work of God?”
For the record, if anyone wants to see these apparently wildly pornographic pictures, they are in Digital Photographer, issue 75, page 43.
I think that a large part of this is people who simply don’t want to explain the complexities of nudity, nude photography and sex to their kids.
I am reminded of a conversation that I had with my daughter when she was about seven. She was looking at one of my photography magazines and came across a similar photograph to these. Beautiful woman, bare-breasted, standing in a cornfield. (The woman in DP is in a courtyard and a pool, but otherwise…) Conversation went as follows:
Daughter: Daddy, why is this woman naked?
Me: Because that’s the way that they decided to photograph her.
D: Isn’t she cold?
M: (Glancing at photo) Yes, I think that she is. What do you think of the picture?
D: (Looking hard at photo) The background’s too dark. You can’t see any of the corn.
See guys? Not all that hard.
Peace.
Randal
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I agree. It may not be easy, but it isn't hard. That is the problem.
People want things to be clear cut, even as they themselves are conflicted. Who knows what has gone on in their experience that would contradict their stated position or values?
Hypocrisy isn't just getting overused, it is everywhere!!
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