Semi-Nude Paintings at Orleans Restaurant

When are those blue-nosed, up-tight people who object to semi-nude paintings at Orleans Restaurant (Times, Feb. 21) going to use their valuable time to fight real problems like poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, drugs, etc. and stop trying to impose their prudery on the rest of us?

Great societies celebrate art depicting the human body. People who find it “offensive,” are saying more about themselves than the artists or exhibitors.

STEPHEN F. ROHDE

Los Angeles