Should nudes be allowed in Portrait threads?

[Leigh]

NUDITY is what will get things blocked. I've already been on various public WiFi access points, like at restaurants, that had this site marked as pornographic.

Nudity is a very legitimate topic for any photographic site that covers general subject matter.

It is present here in various threads and sub-fora. I very much doubt that will change.

Therefore, the answer to the question in this thread is not relevant to that categorization.

Some people don't understand the difference between art and pornography.
Others claim that there is no difference in the first place.
They're certainly welcome to avoid this site (not speaking for the management ).

- Leigh

[Scott Walker]

I'm sure you could find many people that would have no problem surfing through the nudes at work or where ever, unless they came upon an image of a male nude. Imagine the horror, all your co-workers would think you were gay.


If you are offended by nudes or if you are too worried about what others may think about you if you get caught viewing nudes, start your own portrait thread that specifically states that no nudity is acceptable.

[Corran]

That's true enough Leigh, but I assume (maybe wrongly) that the block comes about when the nude images start popping up in the internet caches of accessed pages. If they are avoided, by being in designated threads, that risk is alleviated.

I don't open the Nude thread in public access areas or at school/work, regardless of whether people are around or not. I don't want those images being accessed at all.

[cowanw]

Yes I misunderstood, Corran.
The fact remains that you are worrying about how others react to the site, as I referred to in the last paragraph of that post; and your concern, about the site being blocked, will only be addressed if there is no nudity any where on the entire site.
Don't think I can support that.
My Hospital has just recently blocked LFPF for nudity. I had to get the IT person to unblock it for me.

[Marc B.]

As we travel down the 'politically correct' or 'socially acceptable' highway, I have to ask what brought this question/poll to light?
Were there complaints...ie; complaints from the same gender, or opposite gender, of certain offending images?
Maybe, some complaints towards certain images, possibly from the parenting or employer side of life?
Are the Mod's being overwhelmed with too many images crossing the boundary-line between nude, or pornographic?
Just wondering!

Marc

[Vaughn]

I could personally care less, but I also respect other's beliefs and problems so I voted no...

Same here...but I think nudes portraits can easily stay with the rest of the nudes. Of course this then leads to the discussion of what is a nude. Nipples? Nasty bits? Pubes?

[Corran]

To quote myself, Bill:

...I assume (maybe wrongly) that the block comes about when the nude images start popping up in the internet caches of accessed pages. If they are avoided, by being in designated threads, that risk is alleviated.

As I work at a gov't institution I doubt I could just ask our IT nicely to unblock it if it came to that. But again, why can't we just have them in the right thread? I don't understand the problem with that.

I'm not worried about what others think per se (I work in the College of the Arts here, so trust me, nudity is not uncommon) it's just common courtesy in my opinion to have it in the proper place.

[Otto Seaman]

Nudity is as much a part of photography as politics... so to be consistent with this forum's rules we shouldn't be discussing it or doing it.

[jnantz]

isn' there already a nudes thread ?
i don't see the difference between a nude and a nude portrait ..
seems kind of redundant

personally, i think
the threads should be separated by film and developer

[Andrew O'Neill]

No. Make a thread specifically for it. There are some awesome portraits on this forum and I often show them to my high school students.