Girl Going To Church

"I wonder if this church has a dress code".

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A few days I asked some friends that I know online, all creators of AI artwork, to check out my blog. The overall judgement was positive, but they strongly criticised my photorealistic pictures of scantily dressed women entering and leaving churches, like the one above. They said that it isn't art. Some said it was objectifying women. Others said it was wank material. They said I should stick to the semi-realistic drawings that make up most of my blog.

I take criticism like this very seriously, otherwise I wouldn't be writing about it now. I'm looking for opinions from my regular blog readers.

First of all, I don't consider pictures of beautiful women to be objectifying them. Female beauty is something divine, in my eyes. I've appreciated beautiful women ever since I was a young teenager and looked at the photos of topless women on page 3 of the Sun newspaper. I never looked down on these women, neither then nor now. The argument might be that I despise women with lesser beauty. That might be the case for other men, but I find all women beautiful in their own way. Looking at a naked or semi-naked woman means no disrespect.

The second criticism about these pictures being wank material is more difficult to answer, and I have to be careful that my words don't violate Google's TOS. If I receive a complaint from Google I shan't rephrase these paragraphs, I'll simply remove them.

Masturbation is something that every man does, from young years to old age. Even when men settle into a regular sexual relationship, they still do it. I'll stick to the word "wank", because it's a crude word that better describes the act.

When I was a young teenager I wanked while looking at photos of page 3 girls, all of whom were older than me. Typically, they were aged from 18 to 20. I idolised them. They had a divine beauty that I never saw in real life. Wanking to them was acknowledging that they were better than me. As I grew older and had my first girlfriends, I wanked to them after every date. This was also no disrespect, the very opposite. They excited me with their touches and their kisses, and they sent me home to wank. Even more than the page 3 girls, this was an acknowledgement that they were better than me. They could make me wank. They had power over me. This power was even more apparent in the case of girls at school who weren't my girlfriends. They teased me, and I knew I had no chance of being with them, so I want home and wanked.

Those were the days before the Internet. Let's fast forward to the present. There are videos of hardcore sex only a few clicks away. Maybe I'm untypical, because I don't like watching sexual acts online. I prefer to look at beautiful women, whether in videos or photos. They arouse me. They make me wank. This is an advanced stage of power. They exercise control over me without even knowing that I exist.

Finally we come to me making pictures of naked or semi-naked women. There's no woman who exercises power over me. The pictures are beautiful and artistic in my eyes, but they're less arousing. They're not wank material. I'm not saying every man is the same as me. Maybe someone else can draw a naked woman and wank to her. I can't. Something is missing.

But the question remains, are my pictures art? Is a picture of a semi-naked woman walking up the steps to a church a work of art? Some people say that nothing created by AI is art, but let's not get into that subject. Is this picture that looks like a photo less artistic than the semi-realistic pictures I've been posting for the last two weeks that are obviously drawings? I say No. If a picture is aesthetically pleasing to the viewer, it's art. It's irrelevant if the picture was made with a paintbrush or a camera. I believe that my picture above is a beautiful composition of a sexy woman and a noble old church. If you say it's just wank material, you're closing your eyes to the picture's beauty.

Let me know what you think.