Nudity Is Better

[MithLuin]

IF the statement is 'nudity is better than porn' I would agree, because nudity is morally neutral (in and of itself) while porn is morally offensive (to say the least).

Of course, if something is (in and of itself) morally neutral, then HOW you handle it is the crux of the matter. For everyone's edification, I offer the poem 'The Naked and the Nude' by Robert Graves.

[quote]For me, the naked and the nude
(By lexicographers construed
As synonyms that should express
The same deficiency of dress
Or shelter) stand as wide apart
As love from lies, or truth from art.

Lovers without reproach will gaze
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will see
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess when
She mounts her lion among men.

The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin.

The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometime nude! [/quote]

[Nihil Obstat]

One of my personal favourite paintings, by one of the great masters of the Renaissance.

[img]http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/botticelli/venus.jpg[/img]

[OnlySunshine]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1321573884' post='2337561']
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
[/quote]

Ok, a simple "wrong" would have been fine, but whatever...

[img]http://images.fandango.com/images/fandangoblog/billyMadison.jpg[/img]

Edited November 18, 2011 by MaterMisericordiae

[Luigi]

Quic Fact Check - Has any other post, in the EN-tire history of Phatmass, ever drawn so many Crazy Dope Posts?

[Basilisa Marie]

[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1321592890' post='2337790']
Quic Fact Check - Has any other post, in the EN-tire history of Phatmass, ever drawn so many Crazy Dope Posts?
[/quote]

Threads or posts? If we're including threads, this one serves from recent memory:

[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/115981-will-obama-destroy-franciscan-university-of-steubenville/"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/115981-will-obama-destroy-franciscan-university-of-steubenville/[/url]

[rachael]

my cat won't stop licking my fingers.

[Nola Seminarian]

hey, yo, someone already said it better than me so i don't think I'll plagiarize, I'll just give you some good links

[url="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/10/nude-beauty-for-porn-addicts.html"]http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/10/nude-beauty-for-porn-addicts.html[/url]

[url="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/10/puritanism-hedonism-and-nudity.html"]http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/10/puritanism-hedonism-and-nudity.html[/url]

[url="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/10/the-best-porn-in-the-world.html"]http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/10/the-best-porn-in-the-world.html[/url]

Bad Catholic is an amesome blog

[Jaime]

IANWP

[MIKolbe]

and there goes lunch.......

[MissyP89]

Time to take a shot.

[rachael]

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IANWP
[/quote]
as soon as i get home, ianwp.

[Totus Tuus]

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[Luigi]

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Don't I know!