Being a mucky sod on the quiet is fine as long as it doesn't lead to abuse. Just remember the old saying: 98% of blokes wank and the other 2% are liars!

I saw a huge number of putti/cherubs in southern Italy and Sicily last summer. They certainly weren't all males, though males seem to predominate. Many of the sculptures are so exquisitely done with such close detail that it would be false to say that the child images are stylised, but they do have a lot in common with each other - skinny kids are not usually depicted shall we say, well-rounded body contours and serene, angelic, knowing faces predominate and there's no holding back on the depiction of genitals, though poses are never provocative. There must have been some child models, though it's possible that existing cherub sculptures were also used as models. The faces are often more mature than the bodies. Some toddlers must have had their kit removed for modelling. Different times, eh?

Are photos different? Does it matter that the cherubs we see adorning churches are done with such finesse whereas Dodgson's naked photos are such clumsy artistic failures?