Has anyone ever actually gotten in trouble over artsy, professional nude photos?
I honestly find it difficult to imagine any scenario where this could come back to haunt someone. “Mrs. Simmons, did you take an art class?! That’s not the image DoucheBagCo wishes to present!”
I’d be more worried about expressing an opinion on something that later turns to be unpopular, honestly. And I doubt most parents would warn their children about that. Reasonable caution is all well and good, but you can’t live your life in fear of what douchebags might say about you.
Course, I’m not a parent. But I’ll refrain from accusations of fascism provided you’ll share some of those surveillance photos. Preferably from Portugal and the dorms of art colleges.
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Our new Senator, in additon to beign kind of a douche himself, posed for a sexy shirtless calender when he was younger. This was, at worst, considered fodder for a few light jokes.
What blows my mind the most about this scenario is the young adult coming and telling his parent they are doing nude photographs. Would kids really tell their parents such? I would just say I was doing some modeling.
I’m not sure it’s ever come up. But I can *imagine *what the reaction would be if, say, Hilary Clinton’s college age artsy nudes were found by FOX news. (I’m not saying there are college age artsy nudes of Hilary Clinton out there, but…)
There are college age nude photos of Hillary, and many other famous people out there who went to Ivy League Schools in the same time period - for some wacked out “posture” study.
Oh, right, I forgot about that! Still, that was in the name of science and medicine, not art. I can see those pictures being excused a lot more easily, since she didn’t choose to do them and they’re not provocative.
Is that a general you there, or a Skald-specific you? Because I don’t see where I sexualized anything.
Everybody knows that. It’s in the FAQ.
Well, you can change young adult telling her parent to parent discovering some other way. I didn’t bother writing (or thinking through) a detailed scenario here, obviously.
That said, my son’s-sister-who-sometimes-calls-me-Pappy-though-I-don’t-really-deserve-it told me when she began taking nude photos, and and I know she has some of herself up on her site. Admittedly she didn’t so much tell me that as warn me of that. Which I appreciate, because frankly I don’t want to see 'em. I can easily imagine someone telling her or his parents about the nature of such photos for just that reason, or because they were ambivalent about the opportunity and wanted counsel from someone they trusted. Just because I can’t stand my father and would never ask his advice doesn’t mean the attitude is universal.
Did you look at David’s pictures in the link? If so, are they what you’d call provocative?
Yes, I have a hard time remembering that some people respect their parental unit’s input.
I did look at David’s pictures in the link, and they are artistic and some are rather beautiful. It is kind of gross that we live in a society where people have a problem with those.
I see the “safe” ones only. Yes, they are more provocative than what I’d expect to come out of a “posture study”, although I’ll freely admit I haven’t seen the “posture study” pictures.
And yes, I agree they’re lovely, and I personally don’t have a problem with them. But I personally do not make up the general public, who tend to have far more problems with nudity and sensuality than I do. And it’s hard to predict where future mores on the subject will lie. My personal hypothesis is that we’re at about the extreme end of the pendulum swing as it applies to public tolerance of open sexuality, and things will actually get *more *restrictive by the time my daughter is having children.
Sadly I will never be god-king and thus cannot change that. On the other hand I’d outlaw donuts too, so it’s probably six of one, half a dozen of the other.
I did too and never saw any reason at all to mention it to my parents. They weren’t paying for school, so wherever my money came from was not their concern.
The U.S. edition of Playboy has openly featured Playmates who were 18 at the time their pictorials appeared. A few women under that age have reportedly “sneaked in”, including Elizabeth Ann Roberts, whose posing for the January 1958 issue resulted in charges being levied (and eventually dropped) against Hugh Hefner.
The Rites of Passage, Modern Version
16: Driver’s License!
18: Registering for Selective Service (“the draft”), able to sign binding contracts, can have sex and pose for nude pictures in any state in the USA, can buy cigarettes, “Legal Adult”
21: Drinking alcohol is legal
25: Rent a car (I don’t think that’s by law, I think that’s by rental car companies’ policy, but it’s pretty standard)
