Full Frontal Nudity On British Afternoon TV

 

More evidence British television is not at all like American television -"life drawing classes featuring nude models on afternoon television.", on Britain's Channel 4. "Viewers of Life Class: Today's Nude will be able to sketch models from home, while an expert will give pointers throughout the program." Censors, where you at? "The idea for the show came from artist Alan Kane who said Channel 4 had no concerns at all 'because it's educational and nonsexualised nudity,' he said."

Wow. That's certainly a different attitude towards the human body and art. And Kane's argument that life drawing is becoming a lost skill is certainly well taken. Sure, you can say "why don't they draw still lives", but there is real value in knowing how to draw the human body, and this is the best way to do it. Of course some people will tune in to be titillated - but that won't make British moral structure collapse. Everybody will be okay.

True story - your humble correspondent went to an artsy high school, and, being a horny 15-year-old, signed up for a nude figure drawing class. On the first day of classes, the teacher said "today we will be working with mass." At which point an obese man entered the room and took off his robe. It was a brilliant maneuver, designed to separate the aspiring artists from the desperate pervs. That class was dropped immediately.

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