That image of a mermaid has been making the rounds for at least 150 years. I last saw a version in John Ashton's REAL-SAILOR SONGS, © 1891.

There certainly are more sexy images of mermaids available on-line if that were the point. Certainly the cover art for ON THE ROCKS, a Johnson Girls CD, is more sexy to my mind.

I do hope that the Christian group Resistance who are credited with making the original complaint have rechecked their current inventory of biblical images to make sure "everything" is appropriately draped or covered with foliage.

Charley Noble