“ Heaven forbid that the delicacy and morality of children be so poorly established as to be endangered of overthrow by the contemplation of pictures you have selected for censure…. [W]e cannot refrain from expressing our sincere pity for that man or woman who finds in all the beauty and purity of the human form nothing but immodesty, indelicacy and, alas, indecency.
The above is a response from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to 500 Christian women who protested nude paintings at PAFA’s March 1891 exhibition. The Philadelphia Inquirer, incidentally, wrote in support of the women. (from Censoring Sex)
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