College nude magazines coming to a town near you? (Ethics)

While I was randomly searching through online blogs, I came across one discussing the publishing of nude magazines on college campuses. I went to the original article, which was published more than a year ago by the New York Times. This will shock you.

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College students are creating and publishing nude magazines of students and models, but it's not necessarily a form of pornography. According to a Harvard staff member, his or her reply to one criticism was that "if you aren’t mature enough to tell the difference between playful nudity and pornography you probably shouldn’t be reading H Bomb [Harvard's nude magazine publication].”

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It's not about sex and nudity. It's the glorification of the human body in all possible forms, whether that is through erotic and sensual poses. One former model asks the question of why she should not pose nude: "'A body is a body is a body, and I’m proud of my body, and why not show my body?'" So, why not?

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I'm sure some readers are outraged by the article and questioned today's generation of ethics and morality; this is not something you want your parents hearing about. Is it OK for a school, such as Harvard, to approve funding for these sorts of publications? Or does it depend on the demographics and students attending a particular university? I'm not sure, but what I do know is that if one were to start here,, all hell would break loose, or at least for the time being.

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So, why should Simpson not publish a magazine similar to Boston University's "Boink" or Harvard’s "H Bomb?" The first time I read the article, I actually considered the situation I'd be in if I started one. If I were the editor, I'd of course operate it differently and choose the spreads I wanted. You don't have to agree with me, but carefully read and reread the article. I'll admit that some of the spreads are too crude, but essentially these schools' objectives are not to create pornographic materials. Hmmm, maybe I should be attending Boston University? And what has happened to my conservative values?!