Artistic Nudity

"The undraped figure in nature has a beautiful outlook. It is the important task of the artist to save the world. To defend art from pornography means to defend art model from offensive image. Pornography offends the model; art – never. Art respects, arises, loves model". (Yarslaw Rozputnyak). This quote is from a website in the UK that is devoted to artistic nudes, and it's a shining example of how beautiful the human figure can be.

But, a high school teacher in Austin, Texas, might lose her job because artistic nude photos of her were posted on the internet by the photographer, who also happens to be her companion. Apparently it's OK to teach the human figure in art but it's not OK to actually be a nude subject. Is this really about the photos (which are not sexual in nature, just nudes), or is it about the teacher's personal lifestyle? Anyway, the press is running with this, referring to the "topless photos" as if the teacher is a stripper. Grow up America, there is nothing wrong with the human body as a study in art.