When does nudity become porn? What is acceptable here?

[Julie]

This could be a bit close to boundaries but it interests me:

When does nudity become porn?

As a teenage girl, we giggled at the biology text book diagrams. I agree now, that full frontal nudity in a medical or educational context is not porn.

But the page 3 pictures in the paper — to me that is porn.

Following links from this site, I’ve found a lot of nude women videos with the label “this is not porn” and it makes me wonder how the word is being defined.
I also feel that there are several categories of image that might be labelled as soft or hard porn.
Some images I would classify as as porn, yet healthy in relation to what they depict.
Is Bridgerton porn (but more aimed at the women?)

Even helpful?

There is a subscription site called OMG YES which I was recommended at an nhs appointment, since it is aimed at helping couples achieve satisfaction together. But if our young people learn about sex from porn, it’s generally an unhealthy depiction.

Some families object to sex education in school at a young age, but I imagine it becomes very hard to do with a gang of giggling 15 year olds. It’s not easy to go there as a parent either — beyond the condoms are available if needed kind of talk.

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[John]

If you asked 100 people, I suspect you’d get 100 answers.

For me I’d say it was pornographic if it’s intent was to titillate, so yeah page 3 is porn, albeit very soft porn.

I don’t think of this site as in any way pornographic, although there is undoubtedly a thrill in participating.

When I took part and somehow won vote off 3, I asked Ed specifics of the pictures, and although he wanted a close up picture, I was not to be erect.

Similarly although I don’t think Ed has forbidden it, you don’t tend to see pictures between women’s legs which would be verging on porn. Those who shave are more exposed though.

Actually we did have a thread a while back where people tried to take pictures between their legs, but only men took part and I came to learn very quickly that is not a man’s best angle, we looked a bit silly 🙂

[Arthur]

I agree everybody has different line that they draw, it sort of reminded me of like when a Supreme Court justice said I know it when I see it, but again in the US they don’t exactly have much legitimacy right now. I would say that for me it’s like if it becomes very obviously sexual it’s porn, a video of people naked doesn’t automatically equal porn, I guess like it depends how tasteful it is would be the dividing line. Like what is the distinction between erotica and porn is a similar question? It’s hard to give any kind of definitive answer really. When I think of porn specifically I suspect that I imagine it involves either people directly having sex or maybe some kind of physical sexual manipulation of the other person or bodily fluids being exchanged. A person just being naked I don’t think necessarily is pornographic in and of itself. Like most of the videos here, those are sort of more artistic videos of people being nude. Or you could just go with the Family Guy definitions what’s the difference between pornography and art? A government grant!

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