Talking points 9 July

I’ve thanked Will below for a night’s tough moderating, but if you can’t be bothered to scroll down, please take on board what i say about some posts being way too long and full of links. At it’s best WHYS is a place where interesting and diverse people from all over the world, meet, talk and challenge each other’s views. At it’s worst, it’s a forum for pub bores.

As for today….

On air: Taking pictures of naked children, art or abuse?

A demure photograph of a naked female sitting on a rock with white cliffs in the background. Not that controversial you may think, what if I then say the naked female is six years old? The picture has been put on the cover of Australia’s leading arts journal Art Monthly. Kevin Rudd, the Aussie PM, says it’s “disgusting”, others say naked images of children are sexual and should therefore be banned. But should it?