> I believe it depends on the person involved. We're all different. We all have different emotional strengths and weaknesses. If you can handle artistic nudes without falling into lust, without "stumbling in your walk with Christ," so to speak, I don't believe it's a sin.

This might be a bit off the topic, but anyways...

After going to art school, I have a whole different view on the nude body. It's beautiful in itself, in that it is a living, breathing being with a life history, with feelings. I have recently photographed my best friend nude. She's a very beautiful girl, and I was kind of relieved to find I didn't notice any "lust" at all. It was my first time shooting portraits of anyone, it was all purely professional, and the only thing I wanted was to take beautiful pictures. I have looked at them again and again, and I see only my beautiful best friend in the pictures, nothing more.

(Kiki knows how she looks, by the way, because I mailed her my friend's head cropped from one of the photos so that she could see the hairdo. She was going out friday night and asked in RinkChat what she should do with her hair.)

Trav"bare skin is no sin"holt