| This website combines two related interests of mine; nudity in art and the suppression of nudity in art. The selection here is designed to look at the range of nudity and eroticism in film-making from the period 1960-1985. Not just in adult films, but in all films. In some ways I am ill suited to writing about or presenting erotica in film because I come at art from the perspective of painting. The sexual situations don't interest me nearly so much as the image.
There is a widespread notion that the most sublime artistic treatments of the human figure are abstract and non-sexual. The idea is that people who see something sexual in Michelangelo's David or Ingres' Odalisque are dirty minded philistines who cannot appreciate the artistry of the works. I reject that view utterly. The notion that artistic nudes are non-sexual must rely on some very weird ideas about sex. Anyone who looks at Michelangelo's David without placing it in some sexual context has something wrong with his or her head. It is one of the most outlandishly sensual works I can think of! It is a pin-up idealization of the youthful male body executed by a passionate homosexual. It is abstract and intimate, intellectual and sensual. That's what makes good art good... it's a lot of things all at once. There is no contradiction there. Human beauty (the subject of the great majority of all artistic treatments of the human figure) cannot be separated from sex nor should it be. | 
