Monday, May 26, 2008  Of Tyrning Wyrms. Cross-posted at Tizona's
As a card-carrying Right Wing Death Beast, also called, on
occasion, a Jesus freak, God-botherer, racist, nazi and ... a
disgrace!.... I've been following the recent furore over the
Bill Henson exhibition up in NSW.  For those not in the know,
Bill Henson is a photographer. A very talented photographer who,
while he takes remarkable landscapes, also has a predilection
for pubescent girls. (Google images is your friend for that
one.)  Bolta covered this story here, here, and here.  Tim Blair
commented on it here and here.  On the other side of the
cultural divide, we have Alison Croggan's take on the witch hunt
that is decrying Henson for a child pornographer.  Personally, I
see the photos of young teenage girls without clothing and under
evocative lighting as more porn than art, and while others may
disagree and call it Art, that's not at issue.  What is at issue
for me is that in this day and age, when so many bleat about the
sexualisation of