Nudity in art, both of adults and children has been around for thousands of years. In the great religious paintings of the middle ages naked children, in the form of Cherabim and Seraphim are almost universal. It stands to reason therefore that the great artists of the time used naked child models.

If the shock, horror, “Peds Under the Bed” mob want to be consistant, shouldn’t they be demanding that works by Da Vinci and Donatello etc be burnt and the roof of the Sistine Chapel sprayed a nice Duck Egg Blue to rid the world of this “kiddie porn” ?

Your slander of the fast food companies however, was total BS.
No person has ever been forced into a Maccas or KFC at gunpoint !! Nor has anyone ever been coerced into drinking Coke. If these companies want to return some of their profits to the community, why get so high handed about it ? I bet you cheer when a mining company donates a few tree seedlings to “Greening Australia.
Recent research is starting to show that the “Childhood Obesity Epidemic” doesn’t exist as [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/04/2382147.htm]this item[/url] on the ABC web page. It was a relief to see this item as I thought I must have been going blind, because when out shopping, the number of obese people I see is definitely NOT the supposed “one in four” that “researchers” are claiming

Barns: O.K. Pete…….and pleease nail that Marr tw-t…..he’s rumoured to be lurking the Crikey board …..but Peter focus…… what’s really important here is that we beat that Keane b-stard in the Comment scores

Faris: Right….. just do it…..

I am not sure how Mr Barns could use the defense that the government should be concentrating on keeping children away from fast food instead of focusing on a man called Henson scouring schools for potential victims with the authorisation of the education department, as a Principal represents the education department. This is pornography and Mr Barns is supporting it and I cannot understand how Mr Henson has the support of some powerful people, Art, film and others????

It sickens me that this is and has happened, I question Mr Hall’s post motives why he wrote such a stupid post. Last of all it shows you how powerful people think and act differently. Aka Powers Crown prosecutor.

Sponsorship of children’s activities by junk and fast food companies is much more insidious, and I suspect harder for funds-strapped organisations to pass up. In the end Henson gains notoriety - when we all might otherwise ignore his peculiar artwork were there no feeding frenzy over him beaten up by news media.

There are tragic stories which out of respect for the familiies involved - simply agreed to be not reported. I refer to suicides of ordinary folk, whose lives are as important, no, way more important than the pursuits of an artist. so why the fuss over henson. why report it? beyond the local community newspaper perhaps

wait a minute if this process were followed perhaps we’d have thinner newspapers that nobody would read. hmm not a good look for our advertisers.