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If you are deliberately trying to be distasteful, I will assure you it will be removed. If you doubt the motives, test them. BUT keep in mind this is a classical portrait forum. In the whole digital world there are many fora that will happily view and coach with less restrictions.
I have been witness to so many wars about free speech online and so many of the speakers forget that none of this is free. The owner of the site is shelling out dough to provide us the opportunity to meet here. In so many cases, the posters desire to change the format to fit their needs.
Among the participants there are plenty of opportunities to email correspondence and have private discussions. Online there are more classical groups, more illustrative groups, more technical groups, and I am quite sure there are more "tasteless" groups that have no such structure. Not a judgment call, just a euphemism.
Opening the doors to this concession (nudes) is actually pretty liberal! I regret that they closed the Animal Portrait section but understand why! I have found a good little group, not so high on the broader professionalism scale, but very productive and suitable to my own needs.
Cynthia has put out many fires and kept it civil here, The conversation among personalities that you recognize online make a much more worthwhile give and take, but the single thrust of this forum make it easily managed and much more useful to its goal.
If a less than tasteful nude portrait was commissioned, that would be a whole other matter.....
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