https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:07:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836939 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:54:45 +0000 birdofafeather 1836939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: I thought the same thing! The only one that I am iffy on is the one of the potty but I feel like the rest are kids being kids. But I know plenty of people that post potty pics. I personally don't post photos of LO with her crotch showing so that's one thing I wouldn't want for the world at large to see but the rest look like lovely portraits. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836919 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:46:03 +0000 edelweiss 1836919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: the article looks like it kind of ends, but keep scrolling down. there are full nudity pictures.</p> <p>i don't think these are pornographic. personally i would not post these kinds of pictures of my LO on the internet, but art/expression is such an individual thing. still, i am a bit bothered that his daughter can't quite give full informed consent at this age. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836916 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:44:51 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1836916@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: not sure if it was in the slide show, but I kept scrolling down the article and there was text mixed in with pics. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836910 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:42:50 +0000 hilsy85 1836910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: @Mrs. Lemon-Lime: was this in the slide show? I didn't look through that part. </p> <p>I agree that anything showing frontal lower nudity I would not ever post on the internet, nor would I want posted. BUT it doesn't bother me that he did it, and I don't think he's doing anything wrong by posting them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836905 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:40:26 +0000 Adira 1836905@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Not sure if you missed it or not, but there was at least one picture of his daughter completely naked showing her privates (standing in front of an old white door).</p> <p>I agree it's not porn, but it's nothing something I would want on the internet of myself as a child or of my child. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836901 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:38:29 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1836901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: the pic with her hands in her pants didn't look that bad to me. The ones I didn't like we're her with her vagina showing the slit and the one of her jumping in the bed with her bare bottom. The one on the potty was rather cute, but still not for public consumption. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836900 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:38:01 +0000 mlm2934 1836900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with everyone who says no issue if not posted all over Internet. I actually probably have more of an issue with fact that poor girl has articles online debating the photos now. The photos are actually beautiful, and she was more clothed, I'm sure we would be aweing over them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836894 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:35:28 +0000 kes18 1836894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not porn, and I really don't have a problem with them (not offensive to me). But yeah I wouldn't want them posted all over the internet forever. My parents have pictures of me naked sitting on the kiddie-potty and I don't mind but I sure am glad they are not posted online or on randoms computers! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836889 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:33:03 +0000 hilsy85 1836889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Am I missing something? Most of the photos she was either in a princess dress, or the pic was just of a landscape...the only one I could see being inappropriate was the one with her hands down her pants. </p> <p>Definitely not porn, and I didn't find the ones posted to be offensive in any way. I think it's ridiculous that a "hyper puritanical, neo conservative group" was able to pressure FBook and IG into shutting down his accounts. I'm sure i would find most of their conservative postings offensive as well, but doubt that they would be shut down for that. </p> <p>I think this is often an issue when a parent is an artist of some sort and they use their children as material. Whether it's a novelist writing about their children or a musician writing lyrics about a difficult time in their child's life, I think it's a tough situation. Based on these photos, I don't think he was being inappropriate though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836875 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:25:17 +0000 artsyfartsy 1836875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not porn, but I wouldn't want those kinds of pictures of me floating around as a child. Especially on the internet. I don't agree. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836719 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:22:53 +0000 Cole 1836719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't help but feel that if they were pictures of me that I would be pretty upset with my parents for putting me on such public display. Honestly, I would question why they kept taking naked pictures of me so frequently too. The bath tub photos or swimming in the wading pool in our yard I get. Naked on a road...? Not so much. I don't however think they are pornagraphic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836717 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:22:36 +0000 MrsLilybugg 1836717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@youboots: I love it but I have read alot of comments from people on HB saying they never click on HuffPost / they hate HuffPost, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836685 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:09:21 +0000 mrsjyw 1836685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it's pornographic, but I don't feel comfortable with naked pictures of anyone, let alone children on the internet/social media/etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836677 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:06:51 +0000 pui 1836677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do not think these photos are pornographic... They feel very realistic, like how children really are. So, I guess I'd call it art.</p> <p>Still, if this was my daughter, some of these I would never post to Facebook. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836676 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:06:05 +0000 Adira 1836676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think the photos are pornographic and definitely lean more towards artistic. That said, I feel uncomfortable for the little girl that there are naked pictures of her all over the internet. It's one thing for a consenting adult to allow pictures like that of themselves on-line for the world to see, but a child can't offer the same kind of consent and doesn't even understand the ramifications of it. Of course, by the time she grows up, this will probably be old news and no one will care anyway.</p> <p>I also am not a fan of naked toddlers in general. I feel like once you're past the infant stage, it's weird to take pictures of a child naked. But I'm a prude, so that's probably just me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836659 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:59:35 +0000 NeekieRose 1836659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do not like those pictures. I wouldn't call them pornographic, but definitely inappropriate to be posting online. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836652 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:56:17 +0000 Radish 1836652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: I agree, I do think some of these particular images seem far less innocent than similar materials from other sources. I think the dark tone almost suggests something that I don't even want to wrap my head around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836651 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:56:15 +0000 youboots 1836651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsiliybug what's wrong with Huff Post? It's one of my favorite news sources.</p> <p>I agree with many other responses, ultimately I think many of the photos are compelling, I don't believe most should be shared with the public. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836638 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:51:55 +0000 ShootingStar 1836638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like a lot of the pictures have a weird tone. Suggestive, maybe? They don't look cute and innocent, like a soapy baby in a bath tub would be. They are dark and serious and some of the ways she's posed are just...off. I look at them and think that they should be innocent due to her age, but they're almost oddly adult. IDK. </p> <p>And I hate to be puritanical, but I feel like it is an invasion of his daughter's privacy to post these on the internet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836631 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:48:13 +0000 Radish 1836631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That girl now has this huge thing she didn't ask to happen that will haunt her for the rest of her life. If any of her schoolmates know about these pictures, they will likely tease/bully her. The pictures will be saved to pedophiles hard drives and her body will be used as a tool. Coworkers, bosses, etc. may come across these pictures in a search in the future. There are countless other negative effects of him sharing her body so freely with the world. I hate that there is even further discussion about this past his initial postings because now the audience of people who have seen these has increased tremendously. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836612 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:40:48 +0000 ValentineMommy 1836612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I personally don't think they're pornographic, but, I'm sure that someone who is, ahem, into that sorta thing might. That being said, I agree with the previous sentiments - it's fine for personal keepsakes, but I think it's crazy to post them all over the internet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836608 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:38:39 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1836608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot of parents take naked photos of their children. Do not post them on the internet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836605 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:34:57 +0000 Mae 1836605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like the photos personally. I think they're capturing his daughter where she is in her life right now-- which seems to be with a fondness of being naked lol. That being said I wouldn't post them online. Those are the sorts of pics I'd keep in our personal album. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836577 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:24:24 +0000 blackbird 1836577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The pictures aren't pornographic...and if they were displayed in an art gallery solely, I could get on board with that, even if I don't agree with it. But the internet? He's basically serving her up to any pedophile who manages to find the photos, and I am really uncomfortable with the possibility for the sake of 'art'. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836576 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:24:14 +0000 jetsa 1836576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think they are pornographic BUT I also wouldn't put them online. A family photo album is a totally different space to me and they are memories they should remember but the PUBLIC doesn't need to see them. What will that girl think when she's a young teen and these images are still floating around? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836575 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:22:31 +0000 Smurfette 1836575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you want to take them for yourself that is fine but to put all over the internet where sick people can find them, I have an issue with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836570 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:20:49 +0000 .twist. 1836570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Applesandbananas: I agree about someone being able to take them and use them for illicit purposes. I have known people who have done bad things with much less exposure. They are sick. </p> <p>I do feel like these should be private photos. I'm not really seeing what he's trying to capture artistically? I guess that's for each artist to decide themselves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836567 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:19:41 +0000 Alivoo01 1836567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BananaPancakes: Agreed. I think taking pictures like this for your own keepsake is fine, but don't post it on the internet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836565 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:18:43 +0000 lamariniere 1836565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There is a well known photographer named Sally Mann who published photos of her naked kids in the 90s and I think she got the same reaction. That said, many of her photos sell for thousands of dollars and they are on display in museums and galleries world wide. </p> <p>I think this guy's photos lean art. Nothing is pornographic about his work that was shown in the link, although, a few of the images were rather suggestive (hands in the pants). Personally, I wouldn't display photos like this of my children in the public sphere, not because of perverts, but for their own privacy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/art-or-pornography#post-1836562 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:17:41 +0000 Applesandbananas 1836562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Coming from the vantage point of someone who posts very few pictures of their LO online, I think it's inappropriate. I don't think it's pornography, though I'd worry that someone could get ahold of them and use them for illicit purposes. I think it's just in poor taste. This girl deserves privacy and the right to make her own decisions about her online identity and her father has taken that from her. </p>