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No need to apologize!

It’s not an easy question, and it’s something I think it’s good to reflect on. I think it’s fair to say that pornography has a huge impact on society, and one that is not often talked about. One such effect might be that people start seeing nudity and art differently. The public debate seems to be lagging behind, maybe as people find it uncomfortable. The ambiguous category “not safe for work” certainly doesn’t help.

At the end of the day the line of what one is comfortable is drawn on a personal level, yet on a platform such as this it is shared internationally with no centralized authority. It’s not an easy question.

Feel free to elaborate! I’m genuinely curious.

Reasonable people might disagree, but I think hiding art like this behind NSFW tags is an absolutely ridiculous idea brought about by hypocritical censorship policies in mainstream social media.

Public spaces are full of naked statues. Art pieces like the birth of Venus has been accepted into the public space since forever. And now Instagram is shadow banning museums for posting pictures of traditional art? Who exactly are they trying to protect?

At least personally, when I filter NSFW content, it’s to avoid pornography. Not to filter out art that has been accepted in the public space for centuries, if not millennia.

I love this rendition - the finns at her legs are just subtle enough that he would not have seen them when jumping off the boat, but enough that he’s just about now realising that something is seriously wrong.

They look amazing! Good luck keeping them alive and healthy!

The picture appears a bit broken to me, so here it is in case anyone else experiences the same!

That’s an interesting point. I guess the mental trauma soldiers faced on the battlefield didn’t really gain attention before Vietnam, maybe because of the general agreement that their sacrifice was worth it no matter how terrible.

I would love to learn more about all of it. It seems PTSD was not really understood back then, with shell shock being the preferred diagnosis. But what about war zones before shelling? Were they so much less traumatizing? How was PTSD understood before the modern era, and why were we so unprepared for it following the advance of modern warfare?

I don’t care how tacky certain people think it is - I just love paintings of ships at sea.

The light in the water in this one is particularly amazing.

I think that’s mostly food regulations, but I’m not an expert of the field. Might apply more broadly as well.

Yeah, just don’t set up a competing business and you’re fine.

I half expect him to start shouting in a similar fashion to Bureau Chief Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks.