Regarding some bizarre threads and posts around here!

[NEON DEON]

Originally Posted by Beery

A submarine that never had a pin-up is a sub that never had a crew.

LOL!

The movie "Run Silent Run Deep" When battle stations sounded the crew would leave the mess and pat their Pin up Girl on her end as they made for their stations.

[perisher]

It's realism

[U56_Dragon]

I agree with the historic effect here. Our men went to battle with many female art forms. Wether it be on the nose of aircraft, on the ship, or on the ground.
It is HISTORY, I have yet to see any crude links or pics from this site.
I myself love the girl art from the wars.
If you want to be historically correct, it happened, and that is the way it was and is.
I see no harm in this action to post pics from the history we all know here.
Just my opinion only, no harm is meant by how I feel.

[GSpector]

Not sure, but after reading hellas1's post's, I can't help but get the feeling that he'd really get bent out of shape if we had pics with a Swastika on it, claiming that it is a hateful symbol and it should not be used because it "may" offend someone here.

What may not seem appropriate today, does not change the fact that it was still part of history. It was this thinking that caused Sim Developers to not use the historic symbol on German WW2 aircraft (without a MOD or patch) cough..UBI..cough.

Same thinking caused museums to paint over the Swastika on historic aircraft.

Again, my point is, just because it may not be acceptable now, does not change the fact that it's historic. As long as the pin ups and even the Swastika are used in the proper context for the time period, I'm 100% in favor of them in Sims.

[Beery]

I must admit to being sympathetic to the OP's overall motivation. While I'm 100% for realism, I still abhor the notion that any segment of the population should be treated differently/poorly because of skin colour, sex or any other superficial difference. But one of the great things about historical simulations is that they often show the naive and reactionary nature of such prejudices. When we can compare our modern life with a simulation of a world of years ago we often see how plain stupid rules based on prejudice can be. Historical simulations can bring these issues to life in a way that no book or film can do.

On the specific issue of sex/nudity though, I take issue with the OP's stance. Nudity is not wrong, nor is sex. The portrayal of females in a state of undress demeans the female only in a mind that is already corrupted in some puerile way. The unclothed female form is demeaning to no female, just as the unclothed male form is demeaning to no male. The human form is beautiful because it is natural. 1940s nose art and pin-ups were a celebration of beauty, not an exercise in debauchery.