You couldn't be more right, Coolaaron.


Love and pornography



Without love your life is dead,
a darkness without light,
a hopeless mess of no return,
which makes it so important to take care of love
and deal with it the right way, justly,
making it remain and not just using it.
Real lovers find it most upsetting
to all of a sudden see each other naked,
and, as we all know, so did Adam and Eve after their fall;
and the first thing they did was to in consternation
and alarm put on some clothes,
most primitive ones if not only fig leaves;
so they were upset, alarmed and almost desperate,
which I find a most natural reaction,
after such a paradise of love which they had had
for such a long time even.
Love is more than nakedness and nude display,
which isn't love but only deviations;
while a simple word of kindness
can be much more love than any carnal exercise.
So let us concentrate on love
and just forget about all those unnecessary extras
which, for all their matter, just don't matter,
since love lives and dies within the spirit
while its stretching out to concretize in matter
is just a departure from where it belongs
and always must return to, even if it dies,
to only there be able to get born again.




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Written on 2007-01-06 at 14:02

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Christian Lanciai The PoetBay support member heart!
Of course not. You mustn't jump to conclusions. Evidently you haven't read my first comment to Coolaaron's queries:

"It's simply bad taste - unless you do it with style and, like the French do, make an art of it."

So let's distinguish between bad art and art and call the bad art pornography and call the real art the art of love, which as such never can be pornographic.

On the other hand, I remember Lionardo da Vinci of all people to have had problems with nudity. He never painted that, although he was perhaps the finest painter ever. All other artists of any quality I know always made nudity the highest art, probably out of true love and never pornographically. Of course, even from this there are exceptions, like for instance Johan Tobias Sergel... But he was not on the same level as Michelangelo, Bernini, Praxiteles and Phidias.

Interesting discusssion, by the way.

Keep it up! You have all my moral support.
2007-01-06



You seem to mean that nudity equates to pornography. In my opinion, a naked human body is a pure and beautiful thing.
Are the works of Michelangelo, Praxiteles, Bernini pornographic?
I work as an art-school model: Am I a less worthy kind of person because of that?
2007-01-06