The article contains some sexual context. And then you have no basis of treating David differently, except if you arbitrarily discriminate against one sex but not the other.
> BTW I’m with you against silly bans, I’m a proponent of free speech.
That's nonsense, you did nothing except defending the arguments about alleged sexism.
> In this case nobody banned anything
Completely false. There are journals which ban it, see Wikipedia article. Additionally there is now an indirect ban due to the campaign succeeding in creating a strong negative association, which makes using the image so costly that it isn't a live possibility anymore: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/give-up-seventy-percen...
The Lena image was clearly artistic. If you want to call it, additionally, "soft-core porn", then you would have to do the same with this statue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite_of_Knidos
The article contains some sexual context. And then you have no basis of treating David differently, except if you arbitrarily discriminate against one sex but not the other.
> BTW I’m with you against silly bans, I’m a proponent of free speech.
That's nonsense, you did nothing except defending the arguments about alleged sexism.
> In this case nobody banned anything
Completely false. There are journals which ban it, see Wikipedia article. Additionally there is now an indirect ban due to the campaign succeeding in creating a strong negative association, which makes using the image so costly that it isn't a live possibility anymore: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/give-up-seventy-percen...