Finland about to get stamps with homoerotic motifs, small amount of protests arise

[Uber|nooB]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44623842]There is a gigantic chasm between women lifting their skirts and obvious smut.[/QUOTE]

the most revealing thing on the actual stamps is just a butt

as was mentioned, it isn't a butt just for the sake of a butt as well, it's to honour a well-known artist by using his work (which happens to involve a butt)

[Kentz]

cant wait to see this being used in finland vs sweden hockey youtube videos as a retort

"omfg swedan so gay bunch of fags!"
"oh ye ?? wel u got homo porns on u stamps ROFL!"

[Fulgrim]

The fact this upsets people makes it at least 300 times more hilarious.

[Joazzz]

[QUOTE=fulgrim;44623996]The fact this upsets people makes it at least 300 times more hilarious.[/QUOTE]of course you would be completely okay with this Fulgrim

[Battledrobe]

[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;44623887]I don't think these stamps exist just to be sexual content. It's honoring a famous Finnish artist, who is well known for his homoerotic art.[/QUOTE]
Erotic content is inherently sexual, homo or otherwise. I believe the stamps are supposed to represent the country's openness about homosexuality which is about as good a move as representing video games with Shadman drawings.

[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;44623928]the most revealing thing on the actual stamps is just a butt

as was mentioned, it isn't a butt just for the sake of a butt as well, it's to honour a well-known artist by using his work (which happens to involve a butt)[/QUOTE]
I don't feel it's proper to have a stamp on which you can see a naked guy at the heels of a partially undressed guy in a cop leather outfit. Might as well have Mr. Slave on there.

[arlygoodbrownie]

[QUOTE=nikomo;44623851]I never realized you foreigners are this sexually repressed, holy shit.[/QUOTE]

Or we just see little purpose to it other than "just because."

[Drsalvador]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44623679]It desensitizes people to sexuality. It's essentially a stepping stone to an even more sexualized society, where the sexualization is not only present in advertising and media but nearly everywhere.[/QUOTE]

I don't see the issue here? Our existence is based around squirting a teaspoon of white fluid into a vagina. Trivializing war in movies, games, and artistic depictions is alright, but sex isn't?

[lazyguy]

[QUOTE=Drsalvador;44623030][B]Odds are you wouldn't raise a fuss over a stamp with someone motorboating some great big bouncing jubblies[/B], so what's wrong with a daring depiction of someone lovingly nose-nuzzling a hunky great bum?[/QUOTE]
??????

[gooooooooooogle]

[QUOTE=lazyguy;44624282]??????[/QUOTE]

nice post

[Timo★]

the one with the head just floating in the guys crotch is super weird lmao

[C.C]

I think they are rather unique and funny.

[!LORD M!]

Awesome.

[lazyguy]

[QUOTE=gooooooooooogle;44624414]nice post[/QUOTE]

Thanks, I made it on my Amiga.

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44623048]Because if a stamp had a man fondling a woman, or a woman showing off her melons, it'd be seen as distasteful or sexist, or crass, or what have you, and rightfully so. So why is it acceptable with mild gay porn?[/QUOTE]

Yeah

[t]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Nuta_CQvImI/TB0-NsxHe6I/AAAAAAAACRY/yNy3bosaJQ0/s1600/Sleeping-Venus-by-Giorgione-on-Ajman-airmail-stamp.jpg[/t]

you are

[IMG]http://images-01.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/126/333/237_001.jpg[/IMG]

probably right

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z4/wannabgeek/nudes001.jpg[/IMG]

[editline]23rd April 2014[/editline]

Oops no you are full of shit, there was tons of stamps with nude women before

[Battledrobe]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44624840]Yeah

[t]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Nuta_CQvImI/TB0-NsxHe6I/AAAAAAAACRY/yNy3bosaJQ0/s1600/Sleeping-Venus-by-Giorgione-on-Ajman-airmail-stamp.jpg[/t]

you are

[IMG]http://images-01.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/126/333/237_001.jpg[/IMG]

probably right

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z4/wannabgeek/nudes001.jpg[/IMG]

[editline]23rd April 2014[/editline]

Oops no you are full of shit, there was tons of stamps with nude women before[/QUOTE]

Yeah except that's art, not pornography and you're not going to convince me the guy's stuff isn't just smut

edit: There's no point in trying to convince you anyway, since you're just going to block out anything I say with JEEZ STOP BEING SO SEXUALLY REPRESSED. This is a waste of time for both parties

[chenhonkster]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625055]Yeah except that's art, not pornography though I wouldn't expect someone with a Homestuck avatar to tell the difference[/QUOTE]

This is art too but you probably knew that already.

[t]http://capdesign.idg.se/polopoly_fs/1.557033!imageManager/1369936285.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Rubs10;44625076]Read the article. This guy is a renowned artist, that's why they're doing this.

And the stamps are pretty artistic.[/QUOTE]

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=LegndNikko;44624167]Or we just see little purpose to it other than "just because."[/QUOTE]

If you can't make a funny stamp "just because", what's the point of existence?
Might as well give up, climb into a grave and stop living.

The entire reason Finland still exists is "just because".
Nothing happens here unless we make it happen. Well, other than Russia invading, that happens on its own from time to time.

[Boozy&Bitter]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625055]Yeah except that's art, not pornography and you're not going to convince me the guy's stuff isn't just smut[/QUOTE]

Read the article. This guy is a renowned artist, that's why they're doing this.

And the stamps are pretty artistic.

[Komppu]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625055]Yeah except that's art, not pornography and you're not going to convince me the guy's stuff isn't just smut[/QUOTE]
No this is art!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKFZOIv5sS0[/media]

[Rocâ„¢]

[QUOTE=Someguy13;44622943]Semi relevant

[img]http://i.imgur.com/fFNlGvL.png[/img][/QUOTE]

so thats how Finland will fight off Putin's invasion

[Battledrobe]

[QUOTE=LittleBabyman;44625065]Except this is apperently art too but you should have known that already

[t]http://capdesign.idg.se/polopoly_fs/1.557033!imageManager/1369936285.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Yeah I suppose incase's stuff is art too.

[QUOTE=Rubs10;44625076]Read the article. This guy is a renowned artist, that's why they're doing this.[/QUOTE]
Then the term artist is being used very loosely, given the guy hasn't drawn much other than gay smut.

[HumanAbyss]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44623143]Arguing semantics. The stamps clearly depict big muscly men about to go wild with each other's schweens. It might not technicaly be porn, but it's still not tasteful, and at any rate it's still boner fodder. A stamp featuring bare breasts isn't awful by definition, as breasts on classic paintings or icons aren't sexual in nature. A dude with his face buried in another's schlong certainly is.
This is the equivalent of having a stamp featuring a man with his arm wrapped around a topless lady about to get it on, or a girl biting a condom with her teeth. Those would result in an outrage.[/QUOTE]

those kinds of stamps should be allowed to

who gives a shit

what, are we still ashamed to have naked bodies beneath our clothes?

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625055]Yeah except that's art, not pornography and you're not going to convince me the guy's stuff isn't just smut

edit: There's no point in trying to convince you anyway, since you're just going to block out anything I say with JEEZ STOP BEING SO SEXUALLY REPRESSED. This is a waste of time for both parties[/QUOTE]

So what exactly makes the later qualify as art while the dude up there isn't?

Are you going to go the "X isn't art" way now? Really?

[Explosions]

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;44625126]those kinds of stamps should be allowed to

who gives a shit

what, are we still ashamed to have naked bodies beneath our clothes?[/QUOTE]

but it's yucky

[Battledrobe]

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;44625126]those kinds of stamps should be allowed to

who gives a shit

what, are we still ashamed to have naked bodies beneath our clothes?[/QUOTE]

No they shouldn't. It's gross, crass, and generally demeaning to homosexuals.
There's a difference with naked bodies in paintings and men about to get it on. I swear I've worded this differently four or five times in the course of this thread. Pornography has no place on a stamp, even if it's made by a "renowned artist". This just seems like greenwashing to me except with homosexuality instead.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44625137]So what exactly makes the later qualify as art while the dude up there isn't?

Are you going to go the "X isn't art" way now? Really?[/QUOTE]

The dude's stuff isn't art, it's pornography. And don't give me the BUT IT'S JUST A BUTT argument. If it is in "honor of the artist" then it's in honor of a guy who's drawn loads and loads of gay porn.

[Boozy&Bitter]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625098]Yeah I suppose incase's stuff is art too.

Then the term artist is being used very loosely, given the guy hasn't drawn much other than gay smut.[/QUOTE]

Maybe if you didn't just write off erotic guys as "gay smut" you could appreciate his art.

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625150]No they shouldn't. It's gross, crass, and generally demeaning to homosexuals.
There's a difference with naked bodies in paintings and men about to get it on. I swear I've worded this differently four or five times in the course of this thread. Pornography has no place on a stamp, even if it's made by a "renowned artist". This just seems like greenwashing to me except with homosexuality instead.[/QUOTE]

How the fucks it demeaning to homosexuals. Frankly I'm glad that some people out there aren't so homophobic that they'd appreciate a cultural icon, even if he did draw "gay smut" as you put it.

[chenhonkster]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625150]No they shouldn't. It's gross, crass, and generally demeaning to homosexuals.
There's a difference with naked bodies in paintings and men about to get it on. I swear I've worded this differently four or five times in the course of this thread. Pornography has no place on a stamp, even if it's made by a "renowned artist". This just seems like greenwashing to me except with homosexuality instead.[/QUOTE]

I guess I was right all along with the "because it's gay!" response

[HumanAbyss]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625150]No they shouldn't. It's gross, crass, and generally demeaning to homosexuals.
There's a difference with naked bodies in paintings and men about to get it on. I swear I've worded this differently four or five times in the course of this thread. Pornography has no place on a stamp, even if it's made by a "renowned artist". This just seems like greenwashing to me except with homosexuality instead.

The dude's stuff isn't art, it's pornography. And don't give me the BUT IT'S JUST A BUTT argument. If it is in "honor of the artist" then it's in honor of a guy who's drawn loads and loads of gay porn.[/QUOTE]

you're literally calling naked bodies pornography.

it's not pornography.

do you take off your clothes at night or before a shower and get traumatized by the fact you're naked underneath it?

I just don't get why it matters that sexuality comes to the forefront of our lives. It doesn't. We're sexual beings. we've just forgotten that over a thousand years of being told to be fucking ashamed.

[Battledrobe]

[QUOTE=LittleBabyman;44625174]I guess I was right all along with the "because it's gay!" response[/QUOTE]
Who are you quoting? I never said that. If it was a guy about to fuck a lady it would still be crass. Do you have a reading disability?

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;44625196]
I just don't get why it matters that sexuality comes to the forefront of our lives. It doesn't. We're sexual beings. we've just forgotten that over a thousand years of being told to be fucking ashamed.[/QUOTE]
We should be ashamed because it is shameful. Sex is just body fluids and genitals bumping each other all over the place. Might as well have stamps featuring people defecating. It's natural and it's part of ourselves!

[chenhonkster]

[QUOTE=Battledrobe;44625237]What in the world are you going on about? That is something you said. I haven't said a single homophobic thing??? What is your problem[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=LittleBabyman;44623569][QUOTE=Battledrobe;44623543]It's a figure of speech. Clearly the stamps are sexual and implicit in nature and 2/3 of these focus on naked muscly men and crotches.[/QUOTE]"it should be banned because it's gay!"[/quote]