Naked Lady Postcards

[nancylebov]

It looks as though social pressure is pulling in strongly opposite directions. Any
theories about what's going on?

http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=207#comments

Laurie says:

I’m still thinking about the dearth of naked lady post cards in my San Francisco search. There are some explanations out there (including the ones in the comments) but none of them feel conclusive.

Classic fine art nudes are not “hot” anymore, but Museums have lots of uninteresting post cards of classic paintings.

There is a lot less nudity in mainstream films then there used to be, but a lot more in advertising.

There is a strong conservative repressive movement in this country, but not in San Francisco.

Porn is common and easily available.

There are some people who believe that children should never see nude images, but then there’s advertising.

Museums are places where a low number of complaints might be very powerful.

Still, I don’t feel like I have an adequate explanation for the lack of naked lady postcards in Museums and art and book stores here. I’m really curious to know if this is a local or a national phenomenon. So, if any of you are in your local Museums etc., please check the post card section for them and let me know. If you feel like spreading the question around the blogosphere a little - that would be cool.

Thanks.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

Some part of it may be feminist complaints about too many naked women in art museums.

[rinku.livejournal.com]

An interesting thing about porn that I've recently discovered is that it basically *didn't exist* in the 60s and early 70s. I mean the entire industry didn't exist, there were of course the odd pornographic novel and video here and there, but there were no porn shops, no porn companies, no porn actors/actresses, no porn magazines, no porn publishing houses, and so on. It's a very new industry, and today it's one of the top five industries in the world in terms of earnings (the other four are oil, recreational drugs, medical drugs, and the arms trade).

[goldcube.livejournal.com]

I found a website called tallulahs.com that sells a lot of naked lady postcards as digital files, pretty cheaply. They're not paintings, but photographs. Old artsy photographs.

By the way, hello.