November 21, 2024

Content Tagged "#differencebetweenartandporn"

CAUTION: Anatomical drawings and the line between art and pornography.

These are wieners, and I recently shared a drawing on social media that caused a bit of a ruckus.  The sketch is explicit, and I awoke to a smorgasbord of texts, comments, adoration, and jeers.  The experience led me to consider the difference between acceptable and taboo content.  Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward famously wrote, regarding the obscenity case of Jacobellis v. Ohio, that pornography is hard to define, but “I know it when I see it.”  It’s a brilliant, concise, vague, and memorable statement.  And it allows for indefinite societal interpretation.  Unfortunately, the precise interpretation is left to us, and …continue reading