Daddy! Your privates are GIANT!

said Noah out of the blue the other morning as I was toweling off after my shower.

"That's right. Go tell that to your mother." was my immediate thought, although I'm sure that I actually voiced something more along the lines of "Yours will be bigger someday too."

What surprised me about this is the fact that he has seen me naked for the past 5 years. Why the sudden observation?

All three of our kids still bathe together, as neither Theresa nor I think that the nude human body is a bad thing. We don't want our children to grow up thinking that their natural state is "bad".

This did remind me of an event that took place in a city not far from ours a couple of years ago. A new art gallery had opened up in the "revitalized" downtown area. And a painting of a nude man was placed in a front window of the gallery. The town was up in arms! How could such a thing be displayed in public! What was the world coming to! And this window was on the second floor!

Here is a direct quote from a mother complaining about the artwork:

"They may say it's not pornography, but how much closer in definition can you get when you see a nude body?"

So nude bodies = pornography?

Here is a description of the artwork, and how it was displayed:

One of Ferguson's paintings, an untitled piece showing a nude man lying on his side on a red blanket with his genitalia fully visible, was placed in the gallery's second-floor display window. Though not easily visible from the sidewalk on the east side of Grand Avenue, where the gallery is located, the painting could be seen from the street or the opposite sidewalk.

So... you had to be looking up into the second story window from across the street to see this painting. The womans' son, who she says the art was forced upon, was 19 months old.

I don't think that he really would have minded, had he been able to voice his opinion.

Disclaimer: My privates aren't really giant. They just look that way to a 5-year old.