You can argue about what erot­ic art is!

Erot­ic art is al­ways in the field of ten­sion between artist­ic free­dom, aes­thet­ics, pro­voca­tion and the ac­cept­ance or the vi­ol­a­tion of "the good mor­als" or mor­al­ity.
The art of erot­icARTist ranges from clas­sic nudes over sens­it­ive erot­i­cism to re­veal­ing erot­i­cism, where aes­thet­ics is al­ways the de­cis­ive cri­terion for pub­lic­a­tion on our plat­form.

We and our artists have a pos­it­ive at­ti­tude to­wards the human body, nud­ity and erot­i­cism. We show this in artist­ic nude and erot­ic works of pho­to­graphy, paint­ing, sculp­ture and jew­elry. Our at­ti­tude is shaped by the val­ues:    

• Every human body is unique, won­der­ful and beau­ti­ful    
• Every­one feels beauty dif­fer­ently    
• Nudity is nat­ur­al    
• freely lived erot­i­cism is the basis of our life    
• erot­ic acts and rep­res­ent­a­tions may not in­fringe third parties in their per­son­al rights    
• the works are cre­ated ac­cord­ing to a free de­cision of the parties in­volved, without de­pend­en­cies of the par­ti­cipants and in ac­cord­ance with the cur­rent le­gis­la­tion.

The mod­els our artists work with are also be­hind these val­ues. They have an open at­ti­tude to their body and like to show it. There is often a men­tal sim­il­ar­ity between the artist and the model - the best pre­requis­ite for good res­ults. In such a pos­it­ive co­oper­a­tion, cau­tious-re­strained, emo­tion­ally sens­it­ive or even strongly pro­voc­at­ive works with mean­ing­ful­ness and cha­risma can emerge.
Wheth­er you as the view­er like the erot­ic art shown here de­pends on how you per­ceive the beauty of the human body and the value of erot­i­cism you have based on your per­son­al edu­ca­tion and your ex­per­i­ence.

Why do we em­phas­ize this? - To con­vey to you our at­ti­tude to nud­ity and erot­i­cism and also our com­mit­ment to the pro­tec­tion of self-de­term­in­a­tion in this sens­it­ive issue.

Basic­ally, we ac­cept every per­son­al at­ti­tude in deal­ing with nud­ity and erot­i­cism, in­so­far as it is con­sist­ent with Ger­man and European law.
On the other hand, we also ex­pect that third parties will tol­er­ate our at­ti­tude to­wards the open hand­ling of nud­ity and erot­i­cism in ac­cord­ance with the cur­rent case law. Someone who does not want this or may not want this, does not have to visit our web­sites or our ex­hib­i­tions and events.
Of course, we are happy to il­lu­min­ate the sub­ject in fac­tu­al dis­cus­sions and draw les­sons from it.

Nudity and erot­i­cism are often seen and dis­cussed in pub­lic per­cep­tion very dif­fer­ently. This de­vel­ops and changes ana­log­ously to the change in so­cial val­ues. What is gen­er­ally tol­er­ated and / or ac­cep­ted today was often viewed dif­fer­ently years ago. And how it is thought and judged in a few years' time de­pends on fu­ture trends and de­vel­op­ments.
Some are open-minded about nud­ity and erot­i­cism, oth­ers are ashamed to talk about it or to look at de­pic­tions. Still oth­ers do not want to talk about the topic or have to look at rep­res­ent­a­tions. The at­ti­tude in the pub­lic can be dia­met­ric­al to the at­ti­tude in private. The hand­ling of the in­di­vidu­al is also based on in­di­vidu­al defin­i­tions of the terms nude, erot­ic and por­no­graphy. These are also in­flu­enced by their so­cial en­vir­on­ment and de­vel­op and change de­pend­ing on age and ex­per­i­ence.

Our erot­ic art shows nud­ity and erot­i­cism and pur­sues primar­ily the goal to rep­res­ent the human body aes­thet­ic­ally, not to arouse the view­er sexu­ally. Of course, that does not ex­clude that works of art are also con­sidered for other reas­ons. Determin­ing the aes­thet­ic value of an erot­ic work of art is not ob­ject­ively pos­sible, but is usu­ally sub­ject­ively in­flu­enced. In ad­di­tion, the de­marc­a­tion to por­no­graphy is some­times not easy and there may be over­laps.

From a legal point of view, ac­cord­ing to cur­rent case law, a work is more por­no­graph­ic than artist­ic, though

• it ex­clus­ively or pre­dom­in­antly aims at the ex­cite­ment of a sexu­al stim­u­lus in the view­er (stim­u­la­tion level)    
• it rep­res­ents sexu­al pro­cesses in a grossly in­trus­ive, ex­ag­ger­ated way (present­a­tion level)   
• it clearly ex­ceeds the lim­its of sexu­al de­cency, in line with gen­er­al so­cial val­ues.

De­cis­ive is the char­ac­ter of the com­plete work, whereby text pas­sages can both clear and de­fuse a pic­ture.

Deal­ing with nud­ity and erot­i­cism in so­cial life is con­stantly chan­ging. There are peri­ods in which open­ness in­creases or phases in which prudery gains the upper hand. Cur­rently, a neg­at­ive re­port­ing de­term­ines the media world, triggered by neg­at­ive events in terms of self-de­term­in­a­tion and free­dom in this issue.

The vol­un­tar­i­ness and self-de­term­in­a­tion is for us a basic re­quire­ment of our na­ked­ness and erot­i­cism. We re­gard these as given when all par­ti­cipants of a work of art have come of age at the age of 18 years and thus ac­cord­ing to our law, all have agreed to a free de­cision of art cre­ation and are not de­pend­ent on it.
We stand by the prin­ciple that erot­ic or sexu­al­ized art can not arise in the con­text of chil­dren, ad­oles­cents, pro­tec­ted or de­pend­ent sub­or­din­ates, not tak­ing ad­vant­age of a pre­dic­a­ment or against the free will of per­sons in­volved.

The Ger­man Crim­in­al Code defines these terms as fol­lows:    

• Chil­dren: per­son under four­teen    
• Teen­agers: Per­son under eight­een years    
• Pro­tegee: Per­son under the age of 18 who are en­trus­ted with up­bring­ing / guid­ance / guid­ance in the con­duct of life or per­sons who are sub­or­din­ated under an as­so­ci­ated de­pend­ency (e.g., a train­ing)

The web­site >ju­gend­s­chutz.net< as well as the Feder­al Min­istry for Fam­ily Af­fairs, Seni­or Cit­izens, Women and Youth are not clear enough in their for­mu­la­tion in this area. Un­for­tu­nately, that only means that chil­dren must be pro­tec­ted against sexu­al ex­ploit­a­tion, sexu­al abuse or mar­ket­ing as sexu­al ob­jects. In our opin­ion, the pro­tec­tion of young people should be ex­pressly stated and cla­ri­fied so that any per­son under the age of 18, any per­son in a pre­dic­a­ment or any per­son act­ing against their free will, may be sub­ject to abuse and be pro­tec­ted from it.

With these state­ments and defin­i­tions, we be­lieve that we have ad­equately ex­plained our con­cerns about erot­ic art and our at­ti­tude to­wards erot­ic art. In­so­far as we have for­got­ten, over­looked or mis­rep­res­en­ted some­thing es­sen­tial, we are open to fac­tu­al sug­ges­tions.

We hope you enjoy view­ing our art.

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