Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Nudity does not equal art.

blaineak opened this issue on May 03, 2005 ยท 165 posts


momodot posted Thu, 05 May 2005 at 2:01 AM

It was an image posted in early 2000 when I posted my first Poser 3 renders. I do not know when it was pulled as I recieved no notification. I simply found it missing when checking on my Homepage for the first time recently. I realy have no problem with the policy or TOS and I do understand that we must be tolerent of the individual judgments of moderators who are attempting to keep the site going in line with policy. I simply do not understand the need of people to post material on a site that has policy against it... there are sites such as RaunchyMinds (I think that is the name) that have entirly different TOS and policy where the images might be welcome. Since 2000 I have not posted to the Galleries but only to the forum threads concering technical matters. This TOS issue is a matter of the times, a culture that is more concerned with keeping men from men marying men and women marrying woman then Asian and South American slaves working in their local restaurants and massage parlors or uncounted colateraly damage in Police Actions abroad or the US rejection of the Geneva Convention. More concerned with chalenging images of the young then the sometimes aweful realties for some young people. Recently my mother, a consultant to art organizations on the matter of web design and web accessible databases, advised me to request the removal of several works from a web exhibition someone had made of my traditional media work because although the paintings of small breasted models clearly had no percieved age issue, the thumbnails linking to them had the potential for age confusion... remove them I did. The issue with the image here at Renderosity was that it had not occured to me, the image being a representation of an actual individual, a model of 29 years, that there could be any problem, this was inocent of me. Maybe since I recieved no notice this was simply a technical glitch due to the long ago posting of the image. I certainly do not wish to impune you or your procedures, it is only sermise on my part that the breasts were the issue as I can't see anything else problematic about the image in retrospect... the figure was an amputee wearing prosthetic legs, and her hair was one of those long on top draped down over a shaved sides and back... maybe this was a teen haircut, maybe my work with the P3 face was inept. Anyway, in retrospect here, it is wrong on my part to suggest this was a TOS issue when I don't know that and it may have been a glitch in the file keeping (the text and ratings were intact but the images was gone). Yet, this has along with other maters caused me to fake large breasts and heavy pubic hair on figures that are in reality flat chested and brazilianed persons. Again, I would not like to suggest your TOS enforcement is capriscious, or beyond your right. I believe you are all well intentioned, my problem is the greater society, a society where I everyday see grade school girls in the viel because it is suposed that men must be protected from the indecent impulses they suppose they would have in seeing a childs hair, and the right makes a vadeta against artists doing serious work while giving true sexual abusers house arrest sentences. Yet we must live in our times and accept the measures we must take, Renderosity has a right to act in its interest or on its managements convictions. My problem isn't here, it is with a group that does not belive in civil liberties and turns out 3 million votes just to attack same sex mariage but often in my experience act in contridiction to true christian values and take a casual attitude toward true perpetrators of crimes and abuses. However, I am truly moved by people who truly live true Christian values... I may be Homer Simpson but I certainly wish I was Ned Flanders. This is all OT. but Karen, I hope you accept my appolgy.