Of course it's not - but we don't want to see a picture of your dog sniffing someone's private parts on a pinball machine, either. There's a difference.

And a lot of you are jumping the gun and saying everyone is "offended". Most of the posts here I don't see people actually being offended, nor do I see people making a "huge deal" out of it - it's just negative comments about the artwork and it being in bad taste and just not belonging. Again, there's a difference. I didn't see the monkey picture and get personally "offended", I saw it and thought it really doesn't belong on a pinball machine. Having one hand on the girls ass while looking up is one thing and would've probably been fine, but having the other hand under her skirt - well, IMO it's too far. We all can have opinions on that - that's why there's a forum.

There is no way an artist doing that backglass didn't purposefully make the monkeys hand go up the skirt. No way whatsoever. I'm sure it was done as a joke, but definitely doesn't belong.

Having said that, this is just one of those topics where it might as well be a political discussion. While I think the monkey was in bad taste, I also think that making a comparison to women being assaulted and bringing back that memory is also just not comparable at all. Because how many pinball machines have guns on them - there's a ton of people affected by gun violence in one way or another, but you can't take guns out of them all now. I personally don't think anyone is going to see a monkey reaching up a skirt and have flashbacks of being assaulted - and if there is, it's going to be so incredibly rare. Much more rare than a person seeing a gun and being reminded of something bad in their life. But there's quite a few people, myself included, that wouldn't want family members or even some friends to come over and see that on one of my pins.

I personally wouldn't have a problem with them making it as an alternative backglass, but then again, that's a Pandora's box right there. They start doing that, and the obvious connection is that they are profiting off of their mistake and perhaps being encouraged to do it again.

It still amazes me that so many here see absolutely no difference between a monkey reaching under a skirt and scantily clad women.

I mean this is sinking to the absolutely ridiculous. You are comparing a real life goat chewing on a skirt to a graphic which portrays a monkey putting his hand up a girls skirt. You seriously can't tell the difference? It's like comparing a picture of a dog taking a crap on a backglass to actually taking your dog out to take a crap. I wouldn't care for one on the backglass, but it has nothing to do with actually taking your dog out. Why do we even have to explain this?