Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1255

[P3D <MarkKernes@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Kaplan (mkaplan@xxxxxxx) writes <I hope there is a contingent at
Rochester that vocally protests the public presentation of this kind of
material. IMHO, NSA members who wish to view this material can do so in the
privacy of their homes.>

Though I somehow missed the original message to which the above quote refers,
I must strongly protest Mr. Kaplan's attempt to censor any show at the NSA
convention simply because it involves nudity. The nude has been one of the
classic artistic subjects since our earliest surviving art specimens, and the
NSA is both foolish and cowardly if it succumbs to the prejudices of
small-minded people and ditches nude depictions simply because they are nude.
There is no provable scientific data that looking at the undraped human form
creates ANY societal or psychological problems in the viewer. No offense to
Mr. Kaplan, but his tastes are not the laws of nature. If he is afraid of
seeing a nude picture at any NSA show, he is certainly free not to attend.

Mark Kernes (MarkKernes@xxxxxxx)


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