[Prole]

Originally Posted by Niamhxo

I never saw any Lewis Carroll pictures up until you just showed them to me now. In this day and age with paedophiles (yes, I know there were paedophiles before but I mean the awarness of them in our society) I don't see the need to have pictures like that. And I do find them a bit creepy tbh. Not that naked children are creepy but as a mother with 2 young kids, I would be suspicious of grown men/women wanting to take naked pictures of young kids

I'm with you, actually. I do think art is controlled by people's sensibilities, which is a shame... but where vulnerable children are concerned I think you have to be ever on your guard. Lewis Carroll was well-known for "unusual" fondness of children. He was obsessed by Alice Liddell, for whom he wrote Alice in Wonderland. None of it is common knowledge, I didn't know about it myself untill a friend mentioned it a few months ago and I was shocked when I looked into his life and habits.

And for the record, Brooke Sheilds' mother ought to have been prosecuted. If a picture is clearly sexual, then it's not art, it's pornography.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Prole

I'm with you, actually. I do think art is controlled by people's sensibilities, which is a shame... but where vulnerable children are concerned I think you have to be ever on your guard. Lewis Carroll was well-known for "unusual" fondness of children. He was obsessed by Alice Liddell, for whom he wrote Alice in Wonderland. None of it is common knowledge, I didn't know about it myself untill a friend mentioned it a few months ago and I was shocked when I looked into his life and habits.

And for the record, Brooke Sheilds' mother out to have been prosecuted. If a picture is clearly sexual, then it's not art, it's pornography.

I never knew any of that about Lewis Carroll either, all I knew about him was that he wrote Alice in Wonderland, that's it basically. I'll never be able to look at Alice in Wonderland the same now lol!

I just think where kids are concerned, they need to be protected always, "Art" isn't a strong enough argument to jeopardize their safety in anyway