Anastasia said...
I don't recall seeing any nudity in comics as a kid, then again my local newsagent didn't have a huge array of comics, but the basics; the closest I came to observing erotic imagery would be the draped female form, but with obvious curves (breasts, nipples, etc).
In direct response to the breast feeding magazine cover, it's now 2007, a near year after this post was posted, but I had to add that this issue has become a semi-issue in Australia. I'm not sure if the Bush administration has some influence, or rather, the religious aspect surrounding Bush. We have had a high increase of American Christian denominations spread their wings, to take root in Australia, and I can't say that I'm enjoying their commercial aspects (one of which, Hillsong) is a registered 'company' that is exempt from paying taxes, that is currently paying for prime time advertising on television, as well as paying for visual advertising on public transport.
I can't comprehend the sexualisation of breast feeding. In my mind, only the most perverted person would sexualise breast feeding or take issue to it, because it's not a sexual activity (in the sense of being pornographic or functioning for orgasm).
In Australia, networks have followed the American example, blurring breasts on television. Even a news segment on breast cancer detection blurs out the breasts of women undergoing mammograms (which is non sexual, and hardly comfortable), so I'm not surprised with the censorship in comics; it's insane.
Then they tell people that they live in a democratic society, where they are unable to choose.
My approach to the issue would be to publish the 'nude' version, and publish a censored version for the conservatives that are out there.
This visual censorship is like the parental advisory sticker on CD's; stupid. As if all parents shop with their kids when they buy CD's?
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I checked out Anastasia's site and she is hot too (and apparently fond of pythons)!
Murst!
Anastasia may be hot, but the preview mouseovers on all her external links are seriously annoying.
eek!!! lol
I did remove the snap preview, it was annoying the crap out of me as well.
Thanks. That's much better. The biggest problem I had with them is that they took about 5 seconds to load on my connection, and they wouldn't go away until they were done loading.
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