Exploitation of children is back in the news:
Here* and here.
* Note this quote from photographer Polixeni Papapetrou: "We need to be clever enough to distinguish art from other types of images, otherwise we live in danger of eradicating any image of childhood in this culture for future generations to see." As I have said before, who decides what is art and what is porn? Answer: The self-proclaimed artists and their cronies, and woe betide anybody who dares challenge their judgment - especially when people like Art Monthly magazine editor Maurice O'Riordan (who, the article notes, "does not have children of his own" - what could they be getting at there?) thinks that publishing a naked picture of a child too young to give her consent is "restoring some dignity to the debate" about the work of photographer Bill Henson.
I'll probably be off the luvvies' guest list forever, but I am going to say that it's time for the child-protection authorities to look into all this. It's also time for the people in the arts community who do not approve of this, but are too scared to say what they think, to stand up and be counted.