Exotic Lap Dancing Paintings, Offended? Why? pt. one

Paintings of Exotic Lap Dancing and Visions of Pole Dancers Line My Walls

Paintings of exotic lap dancing and visions of pole dancers line my walls. I keep them in my bedroom and offer private showings. They are a series of really very tame paintings, that none the less could not be presented in the local mall.

I wonder what it is about the subject of erotica that drives people wild in the negative sense. Call me naive I guess, but it is not as if most people haven't experienced certain things by a certain age, is it?

I was at a mall a few years ago doing a craft show with a pottery line I was making back then. I had brought in one of my paintings to do some touch ups before taking it to a nearby gallery. It was a very tame painting of a woman underwater. She had a white silk like fabric covering everything one might object to. Not one of the three areas your mind is thinking of showed. Her hands were tightly closed around the fabric and fish were placed in the painting to suggest that she was underwater. The painting was all in golden tones. Her head was turned back and yes indeed I guess she did show pleasure on her face.

I did not have the painting on an easel, I merely leaned it against the table I had my bags and change box under. I had it there maybe 1/2 hour. A man approached me looking quite upset.

"You shouldn't have that painting in here!' he hastily declared.

I looked at him stunned and perplexed at the same time. "Why, What's the matter?" I said thinking perhaps he was complaining about the fumes from my oil paints. I would certainly understand that.

"There is a Christian book store right over there! " he said pointing his shaking finger in the direction of the store he worried about.

Yes, there is was, not more than 300 yards away from me. Still it was not as if I had an exotic lap dancer or pole dancer in my painting. There was nothing showing as I mentioned. Finally I answered his protest with, "I don't understand, what is it that you think you are seeing?"

Continued on part two