Blackhearted opened this issue on Jul 03, 2003 ยท 186 posts
DTHUREGRIF posted Sat, 12 July 2003 at 2:53 AM
Marty,
Please consider marketing your more "explicit" products at Renderotica. Our market isn't small. We have over 80,000 members. And you can show your products in as much detail as you need to to sell them properly.
Everyone else,
I know everyone wants this thread to die, but I do have to make one comment. It seems to me that there indeed should be some standard here. If products like genital props are going to be allowed in the Marketplace here, then their features should be allowed to be shown. If it isn't OK to show them, then it seems extremely hypocritical to sell them. Yeah, sure, they make money for this site. But how is it OK to sell something you won't allow to be shown in simple ad renders, let alone in the galleries?
I own two sites. Renderotica and AniMotions. AniMotions is geared to the comic, video game and anime audience and we do not sell sexual content there, nor do we allow nudity in the galleries or the thumbnails in the store. We do allow nudity on textures and characters where it is a selling point of the product and we have a warning on the storefront to that effect. On the other hand, Renderotica is a site that caters to adults and contains mostly erotic content. Because we do not allow postings of children on that site, we don't sell anything made from the milkids or for the milkids there.
Sure, we could probably make more money by selling sexual content on AniMotions and milkids on Renderotica (the audiences are different), but we choose not to sell things that don't represent what we see as the image of each site.
I don't buy the, it's OK because it makes money, but it's not OK to show the product features because, well, someone might be offended. I saw those product shots, and while I was shocked that rosity allowed them considering the general image of this site, I was not offended by them. And I'm a woman.