On using children—

Children are beautiful. They remind us of freedom and innocence. Children can run around in the nude; Adults cannot. We face ethical problems when nudity and sexuality is confused, for childhood is sacred, and adults fear corrupting this. Young children appear ignorant of their sexuality. Some artists, however, toy with the idea of childhood innocence, creating what seem sexualised images of children. The naked child is seen in most art, from most periods. Only now it seems that using children is a profoundly bad thing.

Art can sometimes look ambiguous — what some call, poetic. But the only ambiguity here is between on the one hand, innocent nude photographs of children, and on the other, images of children or adolescence in sexually suggestive poses.