Nude Child Photography OK?

Is nude child photography, purely from an artistic point of view, acceptable?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 42.9%

  • No

    Votes: 12 57.1%
  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
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Do any of you know what is sexual and what isn't and why? I'll bet your opinions are fully culturally conditioned. Which is fine. But there's a reality that transcends social rules.

So far, I think Orleander is the most realistic one here.
 
Ok well since you have no problems with it, whats stopping you? if it is only ART.
We have a picture thread here, post away.
 
superluminal said:
Do any of you know what is sexual and what isn't and why? I'll bet your opinions are fully culturally conditioned. Which is fine. But there's a reality that transcends social rules.

So far, I think Orleander is the most realistic one here.
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Really so you would post naked pictures of your kids not babies "KIDS" on the internet too?
 
shorty_37 said:
Really so you would post naked pictures of your kids not babies "KIDS" on the internet too?
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Nope. But not because I'm worried about some dude wacking to them. Who cares? But it's a horrible security risk to post your name, let alone pictures of you (or your kids) on a world-wide public clearing house for information. Name and pic? Go to the yellow pages and there you are.

*shudders*

It's pure paranoia on my part.
 
shorty_37 said:
Only in your SICK mind!! None of this is OK especially not with YOU!

You are very TWISTED!

Never in my life have I ever heard a MOTHER say..........

I REPEAT I WOULD POST NAKED PICTURES OF MY KIDS ON THE INTERNET!
I DON'T think it is wrong I just don't do it, because I might get reported or find a cop on my doorstep.
If some pedophile was whacking off to them I don't care it's JUST A PICTURE!

IT is just NOT NORMAL!

You are arguing with me about it, like I am the only one here who has a problem with this. Did you not read the other posts of people who find you disturbing? And may be assuming alot more things about you, from what you are saying.
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Your ranting sort of drowns everyone else out.

A paedophile can "whack off" after seeing your child walking down the street, holding your hand. A paedophile does not need to only look to the internet to be sexually aroused. He can sit outside your child's school in his/her car, he can sit at the beach where you take your kids swimming, he can do the same at a park, etc. Does that mean you will not allow your children to leave your home just in case a paedophile does see them and becomes sexually aroused?

Orleander has said she sees nothing wrong with posting naked photos of her children online because if a paedophile were to see them and be sexually aroused, they are doing so at a photo and not at her children themselves.

You have claimed you have naked photos of your children in your home. Don't we all? But how were the photos processed? Did you take it on a roll of film and had them developed? Take a memory stick out to the kodak centre and posted them on the screen to select which ones you wished to print? Or did you hook your camera up and print them at home? What if someone steals your digital camera with the naked images of your children on them? My point is that you can unknowingly expose your children to paedophiles. To abuse Orleander because she finds nothing wrong with posting naked images of her children online and calling her a bad mother is a bit ridiculous, when one considers you have probably unknowingly exposed your own children on more occasions than you may care to know or consider.

It is a sad time indeed, when a parent taking naked pictures of their children is questioned about their parenting skills.
 
superluminal said:
You said:


Guys in their 20's? What happens to guys in their 30's? 40's? etc... that makes a nubile 16yr old not attractive?

Sheesh!
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A sense of self-disgust at the thought of something so, so wrong?

I can't really say until I reach those ages.

I think it is OK for guys in their 20s (young 20s) to have relations with 16 and 17 year olds. One reason is girls those age have a mutual attraction. It's hard for me to imagine a 40 year old having anything to relate with other than purely sexually.
 
Exhumed said:
I can't really say until I reach those ages.
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Just wait...

I think it is OK for guys in their 20s (young 20s) to have relations with 16 and 17 year olds. One reason is girls those age have a mutual attraction. It's hard for me to imagine a 40 year old having anything to relate with other than purely sexually.
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That's all I'm talking about. Sexually. I can no more imagine a "relationship" with a 16 yr old than I can with a film of oil on a sidewalk puddle on a hot day. But some of them sure do look nice...:)
 
Bells said:
It is a sad time indeed, when a parent taking naked pictures of their children is questioned about their parenting skills.
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Yes I agree sad indeed, that a parent would unnessarily take the risk of exposing their kids for no good reason. This is going online at your free will and posting pictures, knowing what kind of perverts there are out there. If somebody stole your camera or whatever, that is different story and out of your control.
 
Bells said:
Your ranting sort of drowns everyone else out.

A paedophile can "whack off" after seeing your child walking down the street, holding your hand. A paedophile does not need to only look to the internet to be sexually aroused. He can sit outside your child's school in his/her car, he can sit at the beach where you take your kids swimming, he can do the same at a park, etc. Does that mean you will not allow your children to leave your home just in case a paedophile does see them and becomes sexually aroused?

Orleander has said she sees nothing wrong with posting naked photos of her children online because if a paedophile were to see them and be sexually aroused, they are doing so at a photo and not at her children themselves.

You have claimed you have naked photos of your children in your home. Don't we all? But how were the photos processed? Did you take it on a roll of film and had them developed? Take a memory stick out to the kodak centre and posted them on the screen to select which ones you wished to print? Or did you hook your camera up and print them at home? What if someone steals your digital camera with the naked images of your children on them? My point is that you can unknowingly expose your children to paedophiles. To abuse Orleander because she finds nothing wrong with posting naked images of her children online and calling her a bad mother is a bit ridiculous, when one considers you have probably unknowingly exposed your own children on more occasions than you may care to know or consider.

It is a sad time indeed, when a parent taking naked pictures of their children is questioned about their parenting skills.
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So she would post naked pictures of her kids on the internet? LOL. Wait til they grow up and find out and they would probably whack her for it or do something. If not, they wouldn't respect her. That is not just stupid but in bad taste. Getting a roll of film developed is not the same as posting pics of your naked kids for all to see forever. Sure as a parent you will see your kids naked and even have cute pics of them playing in the tub or something. Even these pictures are "personal" though and kept in the family and the person in those pictures should be respected. They usually get embarassed when parents just show them to anyone without their permission when they get older. Don't you know the difference between "personal" and "public"? LOL.
 
peta9 said:
So she would post naked pictures of her kids on the internet? LOL. Wait til they grow up and find out and they would probably whack her for it or do something. If not, they wouldn't respect her. That is not just stupid but in bad taste. Getting a roll of film developed is not the same as posting pics of your naked kids for all to see forever.
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:bravo: Thank god another person who has common sense!
 
peta9 said:
So she would post naked pictures of her kids on the internet? LOL. Wait til they grow up and find out and they would probably whack her for it or do something. If not, they wouldn't respect her. That is not just stupid but in bad taste. Getting a roll of film developed is not the same as posting pics of your naked kids for all to see forever.
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How is a parent handing over a roll of film, full of their naked children, to a complete stranger in a store for them to develop and look at, different to a parent posting a naked picture of their child in their avatar (as an example.. go to some parenting forums and you will find many parents have photos of their children, some naked and some not, as their avatar)?

shorty_37 said:
Yes I agree sad indeed, that a parent would unnessarily take the risk of exposing their kids for no good reason. This is going online at your free will and posting pictures, knowing what kind of perverts there are out there. If somebody stole your camera or whatever, that is different story and out of your control.
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I agree with you, there are perverts everywhere... emphasis on the "everywhere". As parents we knowingly expose our children if we change their clothes and or nappies in a public area such as a park or at the beach. We knowingly expose them when we dress them in a bathing suit and in a flash they rip them off and streak down the beach naked (happened to me). I remember reading this from Sacha Molitorisz, who runs a blog about raising children from a father's point of view:

A few weeks ago, shortly before our daughter Edie turned one, we took her to Coogee Beach for an early morning swim. It was spring and the weather was glorious, so soon enough we'd ripped off all her clothes so she could splash about in a shallow pool of salt water.

As naked as the day we'd met her, she was having a ball, laughing at the unfamiliar sensations of sand beneath her toes and water between her fingers.

"You should put some clothes on her," said a man in his fifties, apropos nothing. This man was playing nearby with a boy of about three who was, I noticed, clothed. I could only imagine his comment was motivated by skin cancer and sun damage; but I was wrong.

"Paedophiles," he said earnestly. "They take pictures with digital cameras."

I didn't know what to say.

"What, at this beach?"

"At every beach," he said.

I still didn't know what to say, so I took Edie by the hand and walked away. At first, I thought he was being kind, trying to save me and my daughter from some terrible fate. Slowly, though, I started to resent this bloke's intrusion into our morning. He'd soured the mood.
I talked to Jo about it on the way home.

"As a parent," I said, "you're always on the lookout for danger, whether it's big dog dog or a big wave or a pervert with a camera. But you can't live your life in fear that something bad might happen. You can't stop going to the beach because there might be a big dog, or a big wave, or a pervert.
Otherwise the bad guys win and the kids and the good guys lose."

And who knows? Maybe the bloke was a prude. Or maybe he was just a kind-hearted fella who meant well. Clearly he hadn't learned that you don't tell parents how to parent. Especially when they're total strangers.

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In short, you can't call a woman a bad parent if she happens to post naked photo's of her children on her myspace page (as one example), because a paedophile might, just might, view them. Because at the end of the day, we expose our children to paedophiles just as much each time we take them out of the house.
 
shichimenshyo said:
Do you take your kids out of the house nude?
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On hot days, I have been known to take them out naked, usually wearing a nappy, if we have to go in the car. On hot days, my children are rarely dressed, with the exception of a liberal amount of sunscreen.

Why?
 
Ok fine I will take that point. There are perverts everywhere true. We may be even exposing them unknowingly sometimes.......

BUT why take it a step further and KNOWINGLY post naked pictures of your kids, for the perverts to copy save...whatever they do with them. Orleander NEVER said once in all these pages she was putting them on a website for family or friends. She just said she would post them on the Internet, and would have no problem if a pedophile whacked off to them if he found them because they were only pictures.

See I wouldn't even risk that happening, by not posting them on the internet. Because the whole idea turns my stomache.

Now another poster that I asked, said yes he had them on a SECURE site with a password, and only family could access it. Now that is different too, even though it probably could be hacked into. But even after that Orleander never said anything like ohhhhhhh thats what I meant too. She also mentioned the cops coming to her door.
I mean Bells come on, it all reads horribly!
 
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shichimenshyo said:
a nappy meaning diaper?
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Yes. I value my car upholstery. But my 2 year old often plays in the front yard butt naked. And on warm days, we often let our 6 month old roll around on the grass naked.. Time spent without a nappy on is good as it allows their skin to breath.

But my eldest has often pulled off all his clothes and streaked down the beach or park completely naked. He's two, it is what children his age do. Does that mean I should keep him locked up in the house, just in case a paedophile might take his picture or see him? I don't like it that paedophiles are out there. But that does not mean I am going to stop him from being a child, because they might be out there.
 
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