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Subject: Change in TOS...New Child Image Guidelines

StaceyG opened this issue on Mar 21, 2005 ยท 174 posts


Orio posted Tue, 22 March 2005 at 2:00 PM

Blackhearted, my examples cover a range that goes from many hundreds of centuries before Christ, to last century. Some of the images I linked to, have been made by English or US artists living in an age, or near to an age, that is commonly known as "Victorian" and I am sure that you know better than me that it was not one of the most liberal ages when it came to the concept of what was morally decent And many of the images I linked to, were even made on order from catholic commissioners (priests). So the point was not in the morality of those times. It's in the ability to understand that the naked human body can be a subject of art without necessarily being an object of perversion. If you look at the images, you will notice that several poses are not much different from what is referred to, in this thread, as the "faerie-porn pictures posted on Renderosity". In particular, the Cupid poses come to mind with a striking similarity. In those cases, the real difference is only in the skill of the makers - most people here at Rosity (myself included) does not have the skills of those masters, yet, this does not mean that they are pornographers. Maybe a few are. But the large majority are, in my opinion, just amateur artists having fun and trying to learn. Not pornographers. This is the most hideous part of the TOS in my opinion: to state that someone is a pornographer only because he depicts naked human bodies. Painting or otherwise representing naked human bodies has been the foundation of Art for dozens of centuries. Why must it now suddenly become perversion?