Dear God/Allah/El/Mary/Manitou/Gaia/Vishnu!
You all have the right to your opinion. People who don't like the art, stop patronizing the SB! This is your right and perogitive. You can interpret the art/drivel as you see fit and it is your right to not like it and interpret it in any way you see fit. Please realize the world will not always conform to your utopian ideals or your standards of what "art" is. Do not make the fatal mistake of expecting others to see the world as you do or to condemn a person as unjust for holding different standards in this regard. Misplaced outrage is not only dangerous as it obscurs real problems in society, but also serves to limit objective discourse and to cloud the real issues; in this case, violence to and the dangerous world it is for women.
Is this art sexual? Yes. Let us not forget that every psycology book written in the last 150 years shows that it is not sexual permissiveness that leads to sexual deviance (rape, battered women, serial killers, etc.), but sexual repression. One need merely examine those current societies where such imagry is taboo or even outlawed and contrast their treatment of women with our own (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Sudan, etc.). Do we have a long way to go with regards to better treatment of women? Yes again. But don't call the rose what it ain't.