Nanner Split said:ferris209 said:Nanner Split said:The only time I ever remember nudity being "allowed" was when one or two people decided to fuck with a hypersensitive member (I think it was Ingo Sucks, or Ziegfried, or whatever name he was using at the time). And even then, the threads were slapped with a NSFW label.
Yeah, I knew I'd seen it somewhere, I got the NSFW on the Bettie Page thread when I did it. But I was wrong, no doubt.
Bettie Page did all of her pin-up work in the 1950s. She eventually stopped modeling, became a born-again Christian (was even a Baptist missionary in Angola for a while), and very much regretting having done her modelling career.
So yes ferris, it was in poor fucking taste.
Obviuosly a non-fan of Bettie. Although she was religious, she really cherished that point in her life in which she did the photgraphs. Allow me to show you some of her quotes:
"Being in the nude isn`t a disgrace unless you`re being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!"
"No, I don`t think my fans want to see me old and fat. I`ve got to get another 20-25 lbs. off somehow - remember me as I looked when I was younger. I get sad when I see my favorite movie stars when they`re old. Who wants to see Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau now as the The Odd Couple (1968)? Jack Lemmon is a fan of mine."
"I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You`re just as free as a bird!"
"I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don`t believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony."
"It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration."
"I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live."
She often felt her greatest gift to the world was her photographs, what better way to celebrate the woman to show her how she wanted to be remembered. I do not think, nor will I ever think, that displaying pictures of her that she was proud of to be "in poor fucking taste". You must be in the same camp that thinks Michelangelo's David is in "poor fucking taste".