Sorry Keith, but I don't quite understand your reply in this context. I assume your commenting about my library scenario since you included it here. I had meant (and maybe this wasn't clear) that the library in question is the school library since this is where many schools keep their public PC's. My point is that the student in question would face disciplinary action in most US schools for looking at Dario's photo on a school computer, no matter what we think of as definitions of pornography. I know the woman that teaches photography at the high school, and she never shows nudes of any kind (photos of real people, not photos of naked statues) because the reaction is so unpredictable.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/2004 12:19:36 PM >>> See below: Chris Stoddart wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Steve Desjardins wrote: > > >>A high school student is sitting at a PC in the library looking at this >>photo. A teacher walks by. What do you think happens? > > > Well it depends. Moving roughly eastwards starting from you... > > USA: Teacher has hysterics and denounces the student to the principal as > a pervert. Student must attend counselling. > UK: Teacher goes "tut, tut, tut" loudly and student says "Sorry Miss/Sir" > with a grin and flicks back to ebay. > Scandinavia: Nothing. You see these images on advertisments every day. > France/Italy: Teacher has heated philosophical discussion on the merits of > the model with student. Teacher shows student better pictures. > Arabic Middle East: Lets not go there... > And so on. > > That's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but there is definitely a difference > depending on culture. > > Chris Furthermore, a male does NOT comment on photographs of a female shown to him by another male. Not ever. Sometimes not even if asked. You must know that to be "honest" one must know the relationship between the male displaying the photo and the female being so displayed. This is a _whole_ lot worse than answering the question when one's wife asking, "Do you think this makes me look fat?" I think all males have opinions of the photograph or the female in a photograph, as soon as they see it. Instant opinion. However, I'd decline to say a word about the female _especially_ unless you know for certain there's no connection between the male asking the question and the female in the photo. "Beyond there... be dragons!" keith whaley > > >
