Yes. I would agree that image is the other side of the line and into
pornography.

Tom Morton

On 16 May 2011, at 23:22, Dan Rosenthal <[email protected]> wrote:

> I feel like this image from the same author: 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futanari.png might be crossing the 
> lines. Given Niabot's user page loudly railing against Commons being 
> "censored", I'd say the issue is less "art" and more "lets see who we can 
> shock and/or piss off."
>
> -Dan
> On May 16, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
>
>> Ah... this is one of those perennial issues that is unlikely to be solved
>> this time around.
>>
>> I think casting this a gender issue is incorrect; certainly amongst my group
>> of friends those who would not appreciate the image are fairly evenly split
>> between male/female. I think most rational adults can tell the difference
>> between porn (or gratuitous sexuality) and nudity.
>>
>> The other problem is not recognizing this as art, in the same way as
>> artistic nudes. Given the ease of making images nowadays there is an awful
>> lot of them out there - and this one certainly  runs a fine line. It's an
>> area that is always going to be subjective.
>>
>> Commons is, surely, about media. Is this good media? I am no expert of this
>> genre, but it seems reasonably decent. At the end of the day, NOTCENSORED
>> does come into play - it is a legitimate genre, where the image is judged to
>> be of a high quality. It just happens that it offends the sensibilities of,
>> by comparison to other issues, a largish portion of the editing community.
>>
>> There is an irony in there somewhere.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 16 May 2011 21:10, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 2011/5/16 David Richfield <[email protected]>:
>>>> How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
>>>> tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.
>>>
>>> The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations
>>> of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no
>>> claim to notability at all.  In general, "notability" has very little
>>> to do with Commons at any level.
>>>
>>> -Robert Rohde
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