I love hearing sane voices in hysteria and moral panic, it reminds you that there are still some people able to keep a level head when everyone around them is caught up and trying to protect themselves against an empty threat at their logic’s expense.

Damn that was a long sentence, haha.

In a week’s time I’m publishing my next news column about this topic, with the same angle your opinion carries. I don’t think people are intentionally vile and dictatorial in these topics, we just have a mainstream culture stifled by the post-victorian fear and paranoia of sexuality. It’s very freudian, the way people cry ‘deviant’ at innocent things these days. And that picture above – which I’ve seen uncensored – confronts you. It slaps you in the face, then as it intends to, fills you with an uncertainty and sympathy for the girl. You really worry about her and the confusing time she’s growing through.

My point is, please, keep spreading the message that art is not something to hide from ourselves or (a much worse sin) others. Our culture is still recovering from a very immature, fanatical phase as I mentioned above, so we need people like you to press good and rational arguments like this. Even consider going into opinion journalism, hehe.

*hugs the writer* Thanks for spreading the word, if I ever actually sign up here I’ll read more of your stuff.

yes they are. Good post.

yeah, the position of that bar is kinda weird, hey? i mean, why not raise it, or just make it bigger? cause only nipples need to be hidden?

All kinds of fuck-up-ed-nes.

Thanks for your post. I’ve been stewing about this for days and couldn’t come up with the right words, but your piece dampened my seething resentment enough for lucidity to gain a foothold.