Originally Posted by analog

OMG THINK OF TEH CHILDREN

But seriously. This isn't a graphic picture. There is no blood, there is no gore, he's not mangled or scorched or covered in his own post-mortem excrement.

He's just dead.

Only in America have we become enamored with fearing death, with treating it as something hush-hush and scary- and only in the last few hundred years.

It used to be that death was just another inevitability of life. When someone died, their body was put on display in the home- they did not go to "funeral homes". They were not immediately taken away so that no one had to see the scary, scary dead person. I don't know of any other cultures who are as afraid of death as in America. Over time, death went from being just another part of life, to something gross, disgusting, scary- and apparently, something to be hidden from children. OMG PEOPLE DIE! JESUS H CHRIST, IF CHILDREN FIND OUT PEOPLE DIE, WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE WORLD??!

Secondarily, Mr Nimoy's photographs are intentionally sexual in nature, which places them squarely under the umbrella of being viewed as pornography- by those who wouldn't see the difference between sensual art and porn, which is practically everyone looking to cover their ass.

Third, sex and violence (if you can count a dead guy as "violent"/graphic) will always be treated differently in this society, and we're well beyond trying to correct that on a grand scale... our best hope is baby steps in the direction of containing and eliminating this double-standard.

Save the children!!

This too.