BOINKOLOGY | Virginia Teen Censored For Nude Self Portrait

BY Lux Alptraum
April 7, 2008
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Virginia Teen Censored For Nude Self Portrait

The human body is a beautiful thing — unless, apparently, you’re seventeen and painting a nude self portrait, in which case it’s dirty, wrong, and bad.

Yeah, we’re confused too, but that’s the message that The Virginian-Pilot gave when it overturned a judge’s decision to award first prize in the paper’s student art competition to Beth Reid. Apparently, Reid’s modest nude portrait was just too racy to be art:

Frankly, we have a hard time seeing what’s so controversial about the painting — it looks like a beautiful piece of art to us!

This is the worst child porn scandal since Elton John had his Nan Goldin photos seized.

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