Art or Porn

I have an account on Deviant art (http://ianadan.deviantart.com). I love taking photos, and this gives me a chance to let other people see and critique my stuff.

So I took a photo of my lovely wife, manipulated it a bit in photoshop, you know the form, black and white, tasteful blurring of some bits, etc, and posted it up.

I had some nice comments, I had some blatantly pervy comments and some general stuff. While looking at the people that liked my work, i was more than a bit surprised that some of them had never, ever submitted any form of art to the deviantart forums and the art that they had marked as favourite was, IMHO, porn.

In a discussion on this matter with a friend of mine, he says that all views of the naked form should count as art, as it in the eye of the beholder. I feel that some things are better left to the imagination. A close up photo of female genitalia, in my mind anyway, detracts from the beauty of the real thing and cheapens the experience.

But that is, as I always stress, my own humble opinion.