Дана Sunday 09 May 2010 10:53:23 William Pietri написа:
On 05/08/2010 10:23 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Editors are saying, with a straight face, that there is "no implied sexual activity" in BDSM images like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_BDSM.png and that images like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BDSM_Preparation.png are not pornographic.
I'm going to stay quite thoroughly out of 99.9% of this discussion, but that last link is from a well-known local art gallery and performance space, Femina Potens, [1] that happens to be just a few blocks from my house.
At least by local community standards, the event depicted was indeed not pornographic. San Francisco's long history as a home to both artists and people with different takes on sex and gender means that a lot of local art works with sex and gender as key themes. As they mention in their
Just because someone says that their pornography is art doesn't make it so. Next thing you'll be telling us is that "art"[http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Mappleth/MappPg1.html] of Robert Mapplethorpe isn't pornographic.