Good point, Mandy! I love many classic forms of nude art, both male and female. Michaelangelo's DAVID is so beautiful, also the classical Greek sculpture of the mature male, Zeus (or Posiedon). At the same time, one has no note in history of women in the 19th century under seductive male nude sculptures as they gather for tea and crumpets. The same paintings of female nudes, as they stared out to the viewer (what the art critic, Berger, calls "the gaze," were purely for the gratification and objectification of the male.
With the advent of photography, the female form in painting took a different turn, and soft porn was more frequently relegated to the photo rather than in painting, at which time the Impressionists hit their stride.
Patty