> As a parent it is my responsibility to raise my children with my > morals and to my standards. Is 10 years old too young to be exposed > to nudity?
Well geez... children have been nude since birth. So at 10, they've been exposed to nudity all their friggin lives. > How about sexual intercourse? The mechanics, probably. Graphic images, no. > How about drug use? Illicit or medical? > How about animal slaughter? Wow... reaching here... I had many friends as a kid that were raised on farms. They witnessed animal slaughter at a very young age. Most of them under ten i'd say. I killed my first squirrel at 8 with a 22. I killed my first deer at 10. "Slaughtered" them both and ate them. So with that out of the way let's see if I get your position... as far as art goes... Based on your no nudity clause: It would be okay for children to be exposed to, say... The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sebastian Or perhaps Michelangelo's Pieta : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo's_Pieta And, dare I say it, Serrano's "Piss Christ"? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ Right? Note the lack of nudity in each. Or would the challenge to religion in Piss Christ be too much? What if they were in the same exhibit of religion-inspired artwork? > The parents that complained were upset that their children were > exposed to nudity. Did they bother to find out what the exhibit was about? Did they bother to do any research? Or, did they simply react? and over-react? See, the problem here is that no matter what, the child cannot un-see something and these parents are missing an excellent opportunity to talk with their children. So another question for you: Would _you_ research the exhibit beforehand, and after doing so, would you then sign the permission slip? Would you further go on the field trip to cover your child's eyes so that they wouldn't be exposed to a blasphemous image like Piss Christ? Or would you shield them from the violence inherent in "Martyrdom" or the pain Mary is so obviously feeling in "Pieta"? At which point would you say, okay, this is good and appropriate, and then everything else is bad, and evil and rotten. and, at what point do you then encourage your children to no longer challenge themselves with ideas other than those fed to them? A teacher fired for exposing children to art at an exhibit that parents signed a permission slip for the children to attend, absolutely unconscionable! > It is their right as parents to not want their 10 > year old exposed to nudity. > This is not a "nutty" concept, not in my > eyes. Not in the eyes of most of the people that I've talked to about > this issue. Well I'm glad to be counted in the Not Most People category then, because I definitely disagree. -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216220 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
