What's notable about the banners and thumbs, and what usually gets lost in the shouting match over "artistic freedom/censorship/nudity/pornography" is that what matters is not the actuality, but the appearance. On first glance the banners look exactly like those of a porn site. This has little to do with content. I could probably make up a banner of a teddy bear or a chair that had the same "look" to it. Of course, a large part of the look is the expanse of skin. You'd get the same effect if the skin was the palm of a hand or the nape of a neck; from the corner of the eye all you see is a mass of pink flesh, and it shouts "Nudie pic!" at you. Of course, the use of screaming, block-letter slogans like "Sexy!" "Hot!" "Teen!" doesn't hurt the effect! Now, there are banners and thumbs for more dignified products. There are even "skin and undies" products with dignified ads. It doesn't take too many of the lingerie ads to color one's perception of the whole, tho. None of this is helped by Renderosity's tireless efforts to promote the "hot" products (almost invariably of the kind we have been describing) in every possible corner of the store. Several things would help. Increasing the numbers of banners for other kinds of products, for one. The "hot" merchants are tireless in their advertising, and many of the people making shaders for Carrara aren't pushing their banners to the same extent (i'm guilty of this myself). Another is to make sure the screening really works, and is a default for the site; so the casual user has to choose to see the more pornographic of the ads and pictures. Another repair is definately in Renderosity's part of the court....stop pushing the "Hot 20" everywhere the site can hold them. When I'm browsing for Victorian children's wear I really, really don't want to see latex and chains all over the edges of the page.