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This is old news, but I felt like posting it here.
Australian girl Olympia Nelson was 6 years old when she was featured in a nude photograph on the cover of Art Monthly Australia magazine. 5 years later, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd publicly condemned the photo. And the girl, then 11, says she's rather offended by that.

RoosterDance wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:54 pm Link to video.

This is old news, but I felt like posting it here.
Australian girl Olympia Nelson was 6 years old when she was featured in a nude photograph on the cover of Art Monthly Australia magazine. 5 years later, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd publicly condemned the photo. And the girl, then 11, says she's rather offended by that.

Australian politics are so bleak.

It's not even revealing it is very artistic her private parts covered and elegant. It is a non issue at all from my point of view

Just another politician trying to get his face in the media.

Walton wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 12:41 pm It's not even revealing it is very artistic her private parts covered and elegant. It is a non issue at all from my point of view

I'm arguably more aroused by the clothed 11-year-old girl than the photo of her naked at 6, since 11 is right in my ideal age-of-attraction. I guess that means we should disallow any photos or videos of her until she's 18. In Australia, I'm starting to feel that it would be an unsurprising development. We've moved so far toward the idea that the bodies of minors are all inherently problematic as they "invite abuse".

After all, it is the country that decided to ban even pornography featuring adult models when said models "look like minors".

As a side note, before I was 5, I had a lot of trouble wearing clothes due to my autism (I'm still always naked at home). Most photos of me at the time show me naked. By the standards of today's Australia, that was "abusive"...

WavesInEternity wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 3:06 pm I guess that means we should disallow any photos or videos of her until she's 18. In Australia, I'm starting to feel that it would be an unsurprising development. We've moved so far towards the idea that the bodies of minors are all inherently problematic as they "invite abuse".

After all, it is the country that decided to ban even pornography featuring adult models when said models "look like minors".

Imagine a little girl asking you to take her photo at the beach or in a tourist destination and you have to say no as that would be considered "illegal" or "obscene". What would the child think? Would they understand the stupid law or take it as they are somehow ugly or bad? That seems like a punch to their self-esteem and self-image in my eyes.

Aspire6 wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 4:02 pm Imagine a little girl asking you to take her photo at the beach or in a tourist destination and you have to say no as that would be considered "illegal" or "obscene". What would the child think? Would they understand the stupid law or take it as they are somehow ugly or bad? That seems like a punch to their self-esteem and self-image in my eyes.

In my opinion, part of the problem is the whole idea that it's "creepy" or otherwise bad for someone to be turned on by another person who did not intend that. An enlightened society would be fully accepting of such a possibility not only in the case of adults, but also that of children.

There is a certain schizophrenic madness to the way our Western society celebrates the aesthetic appreciation of the human form in all its diversity, and claims that children should be taught that they're all beautiful in their own way, but rejects any erotic appreciation of them as long as they haven't reached a certain age... unless the one erotically appreciating the young human is sufficiently young him/herself. So if I have one day left to my 17th year of life, in some jurisdictions, my 30-year-old friend can't think I'm sexy, but my 13-year-old girlfriend can, but the day I turn 18, my 30-year-old friend now can think so but I can no longer find my 13-year-old girlfriend sexy.