I don't understand this level of hostility against nudity. A remarkable portion of renaissance art involves nudity as well as display of genital parts (which i

I don't understand this level of hostility against nudity. A remarkable portion of renaissance art involves nudity as well as display of genital parts (which isn't even the case with Lenna BTW). If anything, there's this thing called freedom of expression. I personally have no problem with someone using the face of Lenna or Fabio or Super Mario, or Michelangelo's David, or whomever in a paper. It's a face, and it's their paper. No, it's not OK for you to shame them into not doing that just because it doesn't conform to your particular culture/sense of ethics. People imposing their ethics, typically rooted in a particular religion, onto others isn't new, but bashing use of Lenna's face is in particular hip nowadays. No, I don't agree that her face from that photo is somehow tainted because the original photo involved nudity, or that she is tainted/irredeemable sinner because she appeared on Playboy. I'm an atheist, and neither I sympathize with this sense of ethics commonly found in Abrahamic religions, nor I appreciate it being imposed onto others. Can't people be more open minded and tolerating to differences? "It's 2019." And regarding the feminist propaganda surrounding this, claiming Lena is offending female students in computer science is tantamount to claiming that renaissance art is offending female art students. From https://www.cmc.edu/news/every-picture-tells-a-story https://www.cmc.edu/news/every-picture-tells-a-story: > And then maybe the next woman to take a computer science class won’t have to hear the snickering. Maybe, she’ll feel just a little more welcome among the mathematicians, scientists and engineers. You can hear snickering in a biology class on sexual reproduction as well. And there is indeed a push for elimination of education on sex in various countries including the US due to pressure from religious conservatives. That wouldn't be the solution in this context, because it doesn't address the problem of sexual harassment. That kind of people don't need Lenna to do their "snickering", and Lenna isn't the reason that they're "snickering". That's just an excuse to justify a political/religious agenda. Imagine this: there's a group of grad students on a field trip, one is a girl from Colombia. A guy starts listening to Hips Don't Lie loudly whenever she comes near him. Should we ban Shakira on campuses because she can be used as an accessory for sexual harassment? And do you believe it would solve the problem, or would those people just move onto something else and continue doing their sexual harassment? Introducing a mandatory lecture on sexual harassment (for all students, faculty and staff), improving the on campus response mechanism and truly penalizing sexual harassment, on the other hand, would be an example of something that would actually help address the problem.