In comments on the Bill Henson post, Deus Ex Macintosh said:
Pr*n is a definition of taste rather than fact (see my previous comment). Nowt wrong with naked kids and in the bath is fine, just don’t flash the ones with their legs wide open in public. Thanks to digital photography it’s now easy to delete those shots.
Unless you feel a particular need to be able to say “Look, it’s a boy. I can PROVE it.”
Now I’m taking the piss a bit – but would the shot below constitute porn? Some context first – I was explaining to the doctor that my daughter was convinced she was getting a brother and that I’d better find out the gender of Eaglet No. 2 so that I could prepare her. He asked, “Would you really like to know?”, and when I replied in the affirmative, he wordlessly handed me the printout from the scan…
Yes, Eaglet No. 2 is a boy. My father is very excited. He has long felt somewhat outnumbered by all the girls in our family. Indeed, when we got a dog, he insisted on getting a male dog so that he was no longer in such a minority. The dog just loves women (particularly Mum) so Dad didn’t really get a reliable ally after all.
Poor little fella in my tummy. Once he’s born, I won’t expose him to the world like this…but no harm done when it’s a blur!
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Cngrats LE now you will have the full set
Congratulations my dear, can’t wait to meet the little fellow!
Actually, at some early stages, females also have a phallus-like protruberance. A scan saying “girl” has a greater chance of being correct than one saying “boy” (looking at cells from amniocentesis is less open to error, apart from XXY’s having Barr bodies).
So… assuming a boy…. stock up on carpet cleaners… girls can soak the changing towel, boys spray EVERYWHERE unless you get the nappy on quickly enough!
So the girls from mother’s group tell me… My best friend tells me to throw a facewasher over the little fella’s apparatus as soon as I take the nappy off…just in case.
I’ll get them to double check gender at the official 20 week scan…
Does this site support the smilie that’s beating its head against a brick wall? Nah, hardly pr*n. At this stage it’s still a human hydatid.
Just can’t help taking the piss, it’s gotten me into trouble ever so many times. Can you imagine how much trouble I got into when I went to an private school in the UK as a 14 – 15 year old…took them about 2 years to get used to me!
Last time I went back, I rang the headmistress to say “hi”. I didn’t even need to announce who I was – she said, “Ah [Legal Eagle]!” She continued, “You were very naughty and ill-disciplined, but we miss you. Life has been boring since you left the school.” I was quite touched.
Your friends at LP are shutting down open debate on the Bill Henson saga. Anyone who does not agree with their position – which appears to be that NO ONE has the right to even ask if child abuse was involved in the capture of these images – is belittled and bullied by a cadre of regulars. Then the moderator steps in and removes comments which they are having trouble with. Has been going on for days. Very Howard-like tactics for people who promote themselves as the honest alternative to mainstream media. One would have hoped that a “left leaning” site would be more approachable and open minded.
Just fished you out of the spaminator, Disappointed, so pls don’t think we’re doing likewise. I’m not sure what you’d call our politics here – I’m a libertarian, which is (sort of) right wing. LE is unique. We haven’t found any political category to park her in – she’s been linked to by everyone from Tim Blair to LP and all other shades in between.
So pop your opinion up – probably on the dedicated Henson thread would be best – and we’ll go from there.
Can you imagine how much trouble I got into when I went to an private school in the UK as a 14 – 15 year old…
As the first girl in forty years to be given detention at my Australian Grammar for “dumb insolence”, yes I think I can.
HA HA HA HA! Knew you were a “kindred spirit”.
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