BluesPadawan opened this issue on Jun 18, 2003 ยท 41 posts
queri posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 10:42 AM
I just took a look in the photo galleries-- not much there in the way of nudity or erotica-- not like Posers. However, what there was was slightly more uncomfortable because-- I think-- it had the appearance of being more objectified than your normal Poser pinup. Kind of a weasely way of saying I don't know if it was more objectified-- "woman there to turn on a guy and not as a person"-- or not, but it feels that way, to me, a woman. Problem was, these pics didn't come anywhere near to breaking the TOS-- one did but it was art and quite good, doesn't count. I'm just trying to figure out my own impressions. You see, I both write and read pornography, so obviously it doesn't offend me. Neither did the pics, but they were uncomfortable in a way that many fetish pics, and I have plenty of coffee table books of those, are not. I suspect I don't mind being slightly aroused and/or challenged in that way by a picture but I get uncomfortable watching the photographer get aroused. And two of the picts I saw were not good enough to get beyond this,uh, titillation, is a good word for it. No call for censorship or anything, just attempting to understand my own feelings and hoping that has some relevance to anybody else out there. Emily