Doc says no to money from Bruni`s pic

I definitely do respect people's beliefs, however $91,000 to help children who probably would never know where the money came from seems ridiculous.

Especially considering that the photos were taken in a respectable manner. If someone sold a nude statue of a woman with this exact pose and donated the money to the children's medical group, would he have turned it down? It's art, not the kind of art I would purchase but it is not pornography and not an exploitation of the female body.

Yes the photographer and Madame Bruni received a lot of attention for it but I don't believe harm was done and it was an bad decision on the doctor's part.

your reaction is egregiously typical, and you don't even know it. define propriety for me; embarrassingly the typical American has hardly ANY g'dam sense of it, other than as just another word in the dictionary, or some excuse to abuse those who already know what it really is. bad decision? to respect the social mores of the society (and the families) this hospital, and those doctors, serve and represent in a *completely* different country with arguably potentially better values? I think not. What a callous self-serving freakish and a perverse nation this United States is. You only notice it when you see actual "propriety" and real integrity in honest display in others in the world. I certainly admire it, because after all...$91,000 *is* $91,000... And Americans don't even blush! You think it was just "discipline" on their part to feign a moral decision or do you think these people honestly value their world view as different and distinguishable enough from capitalistic corporations and societies much like those found here in the United States? Give it some thought before you criticize. Not everyone admires or cows to the need to flaunt their commercialized sexuality and discount and disrespect others as "close-minded" bigots when they do little but exercise propriety for personal and/or religious reasons. (And this, granted that I love this couple--Sarkozy and Bruni! Also realizing that's not the most suggestive pose Christie's could choose to auction...although the photographer is certainly making as much noise about other provocative pictures though isn't he! that profiteering mfer...) No, this was just another occasion...and probably no real honest effort to help.

I'll tell you something else you may not know. If Christie's, thee leading World-Wide art auction house as *honestly* wants to *respectfully* help this hospital and the nation of Cambodia, they've got other rather very expensive pieces worth literally MILLIONS more than 91,000 to auction for "worthy" causes and charity!!!! Let's see if they even attempt to get it right, huh? I somehow seriously doubt they will. And you know, they don't even need to auction honestly, whatever they honestly want to give is probably already in the bank. $91,000 is literally chump change for these guys... they've been setting record profits for some time now.

And whatever happened to the adage, "when in Rome, do as the Romans do." Not all people are as superficial and "immoral" as most American corporations are...and by some extension many Americans as well. Thankfully for some, the world is not our oyster.