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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mechanic on August 01, 2009, 12:42:23 PM
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A diocese is taking legal action against a photographer who used a village church for an erotic photoshoot.
The pictures of semi-naked models cavorting amongst gravestones and inside the church were taken at St Michael Penkivel Church in Cornwall.
Now photographer Andy Craddock is the subject of legal action by the Diocese of Truro for trespass and not having permission to take photographs, accusing him of blasphemy.
Mr Craddock, his girlfriend and a couple of models used the 13th century church without the Reverend Andrew Yates knowing and then published the pictures on his website.
St Michael Penkivel was used in Rowan Atkinson's 2005 comedy Keeping Mum, which also starred Dame Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott-Thomas, about a serial-killer in a quiet village.
Mr Craddock, who said he wanted the pictures to add to his portfolio, runs a studio featuring fetishist and erotic photography in St Austell.
He said: "All I know is I'm being threatened with legal action, I don't understand it and I don't see the photographs as offensive, it's art."
Jeremy Downing, a spokesman for the Diocese of Truro, confirmed legal action was being taken.
"The Church deplores the use of sacred space in this way," he said.
Now I have to ask, which priest found out about the website and how exactly did he find it
:noid
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Hehe, that's a good story.
On a side note:
Here in the States, "obscenity" is legally defined as something sexually arousing, i.e. prurient interest. The Supreme Court upheld the FCC's fines against the TV network that aired Cher using a bad word about her critics, based upon the reasoning that Cher was metaphorically suggesting that listeners have sex with her critics. :huh :lol
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haha! That is a little over the top but I still say f-bomb Cher. No...don't...i didn't mean it in that way
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I've never seen one but I hear Paris Hilton made some home porn movies. Seriously...never watched one ever. Don't get me wrong..big fan of amateur porn, but Paris just doesn't do it for me. lol ;)
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What's your fetish with BBWs got to do with this thread?
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What's your fetish with BBWs got to do with this thread?
The implication is that the priests have discovered the erotic photoshoot by looking at the pics themselves. But, just because I haven't actually seen the Paris Hilton vids, doesn't meaan they don't exist.
MILF fetish..not BBW. ;)
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She's doing alright. :cool:
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Do any puritans play aceshigh and have to log off? :x