Art versus Pornography Essay -- Argumentative Persuasive Topics

Art versus Pornography Her head rests on her left-hand(a) knee, with her hands clasped on her ankle. Locks of hair are thrown about in an auburn blaze. Her tight rosy lips are as red as her cheeks. Her dark-blue eyes reveal a half-seductive, half-submissive look. Her legs are in a subdued spread-eagle formation, leaving her crotch area quite visible. Her snow-clad panties leave little to the imagination. The sexual overtones are more than just a coincidence. Suspend your imagination for a minute and ask yourself if the description organize in your mind a work of art or, instead, a motion picture of softcore pornography, found in such magazines as Hustler or playboy? Where this description is taken from will be disclosed later, but let us concern ourselves with a problem that this... ...ed them. A person at the time looking at his works would recognize them as prostitutes, a fact that is less distinct today. His display of the product in approximately cases, could be seen as p ropaganda against prostitution. Hence, he had an intellectual, not a pornographic intent. This public debate will continue, and perhaps no end may come of it until viewers have understanding of the artists intent.