NY Top Court Says Lap Dance Isn't Art, Is Taxable

[TalkingDog]

9. I don't think it's a silly post. It speaks to cultural colonialism.

A small set of empowered, wealthy people get to decide what "culture" is and who gets to define it.


We can make silly jokes about the fringe of the sex trade without looking at the deeper issues. But that is a very slippery slope. Just because some one does (or makes) art badly or without training that does not disqualify them from being artists.

Because if that mindset is adopted wholesale we miss out on future Impressionists who, in the past, were laughed at in the earliest exhibitions of their work.

Future Martha Grahams would also be off the table. Is that really dance? A bunch of people writhing about the stage all over each other? How is that not pornographic?

Regardless of costs, regardless of social acceptability, to define the making of art from a governmental stance is to invite the destruction of creativity.