Being a photographer, I understand what Patty is talking about when she refers to Marplethorpe's work. I believe that a lot of "jurists" saw the fantastic composition and darkroom work and were seduced into calling those images "fine art", when they are actually a bunch of extremely graphic photographs of men with objects either in them or on them.

I take the side of art is art and porn is porn and I know both of them when I see them. I also believe that it takes considerable study to be able to discern the difference when the standards of the jurists are as they were with Marplethorpe. You can become "swayed" because public opinion seems to overrule taste. Unfortunately, a lot of that happens with nude imagery.