I was not talking specifically about your "library scenario."
Your comments sort of became part of the now more general thread about displaying nudity in photographs, which was started by Dario (I think) when he showed that dark-haired girl pulling her tube top down.
Steve Desjardins wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I understood that.
> 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.
And, I can fully appreciate that!
I didn't have that scenario in mind when I made my comments, but was rather addressing the situation on this list that...when a photographer shows an image, he usually asks for comments on it, and [take a breath...] I was thinking there's no way *I'd" comment on a fellow man's nude photograph!
What it if were his niece? Or daughter? Or, Heaven's forbid, his wife? Oh no, not ME!
So, that's where I was coming from. I totally dismissed any school library displays from my mind.
Not that it wasn't a good slice of life statement, but...I was focused on the initial display content.
Sorry it got mixed up.
No disrespect meant.
I do agree, that if that image was shown in most schools in THIS country, (and for those who might be unclear on it, I mean the U.S. of A.,) chances are the instructor would likely be suspended. If that's all the farther it went.
Hell, in this country, if Mom inadvertently puts a plastic implement in Junior's lunch bag to spread marmalade on his Vegemite�, the boy is in very great danger of being expelled, courtesy of our new Zero Tolerance policies!
Cute bunch of terminally stupid Adam Henries running this bloody country, isn't it...
Might as well be called Zero Brain policy...
keith whaley
>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/2004 12:19:36 PM >>> > > See below: > > Chris Stoddart wrote: > >>On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Steve Desjardins wrote:
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