chara says: The term 'pornographic' is a generic one and not a legal one. It comes from the Greek meaning 'harlot' and 'graphos' meaning 'writing'. a portrayal of erotic behaviour designed to cause sexual excitement'. Erotic art traces history of sex. 'Sex and joy' The curators made a point of only including works which show sex between consenting adults. There is nothing which suggests violence or sex with children. However, a classically educated viewer would know that Rembrandt's Jupiter and Antiope (1659), shows the prelude to a rape. According to legend, the god Zeus (the Romans' Jupiter) was so entranced by the beauty of Antiope, a Theban princess, that he disguised himself as a satyr and raped her. So what was the point of making the point of only including works which show sex between consenting adults.... just because a dutch master drew a sexual image. My own soundtrack to this clip would be kate perry-i kissed a girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-K1y4xoyJg xx The best motivation for losing those extra pounds yes, its ga oops....yes its gaining popularity to get healthy without pain, & lots more pleasure, but i am on a different tack coz i found it so tricky to find images to clip.... "The title, 'Seduced - Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now contains works spanning 2000 years,suggests consenting action and reaction. Sexual images which are aggressive and abusive are unacceptable, according to these criteria, confirming the proposition that the problem is not that an image might aim to arouse, but rather how that arousal is achieved. Many of the feminist critiques of pornography were so heavily influenced by the nastiness of some contemporary material that - mistakenly, in my view - they tipped over into out... |
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