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Here was a discussion I had with my friend Ethan by email. Should we change all the references to "pornography" in the article to "erotica"?
Simplified: Pornography requires nudity, while mose erotic photography only has to excite or stumilate the user in whatever way possible: pose,style,expressions, angle, and lighting of picture, which most pornography does not try to reach without going nude. --71.126.59.54 (talk) 07:04, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
User JoaoRicardo removed the link from this section:
The reason for the link at the end was to provide evidence for the statement that many people appreciate the natural look of women in vintage erotica.. I will quote from the website:
69.243.41.28 05:36, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Should Lewis Carroll be included here? 205.217.105.2 13:55, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Here is the discussion that led to the name change from vintage erotica to Photography of female nudes before 1923.
Best article ever! Concise, well-documented, and beautiful. It should be on the main page. 205.217.105.2 01:35, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I've read this article through pretty carefully, and I can't figure out any sane rationale for the title. What happened in 1923? The only possiblity which might be present in the article is that only those photographs from before 1923 are currently in the public domain &mdsash; but that's utter nonsense for two reasons 1) the copyright date is constantly sweeping forward, so that this article is self-obsoleting; 2) the copyright status of artwork is not inherently relevant, not a logical basis for organization — could you imagine an art museum arranged alphabetically by name of the frame maker?
On the other hand, perhaps the sentence about copyright is merely a parenthetical aside; and the 1923 cut-off date is there for some other reason. If so, for heaven's sake explain! Doops 06:39, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think a decent title would be Early 20th century nude photography, there's no reason why it should be restritcted to only females, although I'm sure the female was a more popular model.--nixie 02:07, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
The date at which works published in the U.S. before that time are almost always out of copyright under U.S. law is not "constantly sweeping forward" anymore, after the most recent changes in copyright law... AnonMoos 10:47, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. Several voters recommended that the title be changed since the cutoff date at which things pass into the public domain in the US will change over time. Splash 01:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Removed bad external link (IchBin 22:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)) Also bad link for Sontag, Susan: The Mysterious Monsieur Bellocq, International Center of Photography.
The name of this article seems to have been changed again and I think it should be changed yet again. 87.194.35.230 09:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I attended, in Santa Clara California, an IEEE seminar on the, then new, JEPEG 2 or .jp2 image compression algorithm, based on a wavelet transform (rather than a cosine transform). For his example image, the speaker used a picture of a woman, of course in this context with clothes on. He said that since most of the images transfered on Internet are pictures of women, he might as well use one for his example. I see no other conclusion from this than that all or nearly all pictures of women are erotic. Why else would the US spend more on cosmetics than on education? —Preceding unsigned comment added by David R. Ingham (talk • contribs) 07:28, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
99.148.248.230 (talk) 04:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC): Citation 3 and 9 are broken.
To any modern literature students out there: did Vonnegut make up that story about Daguerre's assistant and the photo of the woman with the pony? It's about half-way through Chapter Two, and it's on page 31 of my copy, but that's no doubt useless as my book is a compilation of SHF and five other of his works. So, if anyone knows what I'm talking about, either confirm that he's lying, or help me find some way to work that story into this article. "The first dirty photograph in history" seems appropriate in this article. VolatileChemical (talk) 11:29 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi; I don't think links such as non-nude, non-nude photography, etc. should be redirecting to this page. Firstly because anyone clicking the link is immediately greeted with examples of nude photography, and secondly because the page doesn't seem to talk at all about non-nude photography, except to state that erotic photography can be images of people who are only mostly unclothed.
With best regards, CountingPine (talk) 17:17, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to Erotic photography. Favonian (talk) 12:39, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
History of erotic photography → Erotic photography – Erotic photography redirects here, and is the more sensible and all-encompassing title for this article. A "history of X" article should be a fork from a main article "X", it should not exist on its own with the main article redirecting to it. -mattbuck (Talk) 09:59, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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As far as I can tell, all the models pictured are white, except for one male model whose race is unclear. It would be more inclusive if the selection here was more demographically diverse. It's also unclear to me the overwhelming proportion of women is entirely appropriate. -- Beland (talk) 00:38, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
The selection of photos seems heavily weighted toward people who have female bodies, and they're all one person depicted alone. Examples of erotic photography which exclude people fucking each other seems lacking, if not censored. Temerarius (talk) 20:51, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
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I feel this article is starting to brush the line between encyclopedic and voyeuristic. there are 27 images on this page many of which are very similar to each other, in comparison the article for "photography" only contains seven images.150.107.172.172 (talk) 08:29, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
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The article begins with a clear statement of erotic photography as explicitly sexual, and should not be confused by including photography that is artistic, nude or glamour. Allowance must be made for historical nude photos that were thought of as erotic at the time, but would not be now. Betty Grable in a bathing suit? Never erotic.--WriterArtistDC (talk) 15:43, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
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