[WikiEN-l] Titian, Titanic, and titillation

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> The whole Kate Winslet thread seems amazingly overwrought, because it's
>  such a _bad_ example of a potential problem. It's a bad example
> because  it combines the _maximum_ of gratuitiousness (it's not at all
> necessary  to select this particular scene to illustrate the movie)

It's not at all necessary to select any picture at all. It follows from
your reasoning above that all pictures are gratuitous.
> with the  _minimum_ of indecency. The indecency, if there is any at
> all, exists  only because we know, are told, or understand the context
> to be erotic,  not because of the actual pictorial content.

Why does eroticism imply indecency?

>
> It is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Venus_of_Urbino.jpg
>
> Nobody seems to be complaining about it.

Well you've started them off for sure, now.  Anything else you want to add
to the prude shopping list?

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