[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

[Nikola Smolenski]

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.