Francois Labreque wrote:
> 
> The same goes for art.  The nudes in Gilles' pictures are usually in a
> context where one might expect some flesh, whereas most sci-fi or
> Dungeon & Dragon-type pics have the very nasty tendencies of showing
> female characters wearing only chain-mail bikinis and similar apparels
> which do not make much sense, in my opinion.

The problem with D&D and sci-fi "art" is that one generally
only knows the most popular ones, and they are popular partly
because they sell to young males with flesh on the cover.
This, for me, is an example of "bad use of flesh", just like
what you see in too much ads.

There are however other fantasy and sci-fi arts that are
more serious, or more ambitious, in that they are much
more realistic, and show nudity where it's expected to be
(not on a battlefield, nor in a royal court). Of course these
sell less, and are harder to find.

You can consider illustrations by Alan Lee or Ted Nasmith
about "The Lord of the Rings" as examples of such good
illustrations (and those are rather well known, besides).

I also know about some (less-popular) role-playing games
that tried to create sci-fi and fantasy universes in a more
"realistic" way. Of course, they are often played by a
more mature audience.

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