Quote - I agree with you on this tainted_heart...the laws are so varied it's hard to keep up with where you can bare it and where you'll get locked up. I'm just sharing a concern previously expressed by a few of the sponsors. The comment was not made about monsters (with or without genitals), but about showing digital art work containing nudity...in a business situation and a corporate setting.

Well since the first post in this thread concerned the Halloween Contest rules requiring humanoid monsters and beasties to be clothed, I thought I'd throw that in. I can force myself to believe, with a stretch, there might be one sponsor concerned about sexual harrasment charges as a result of displaying digital art containing nudity to their board...although I still find it ludicrous and unlikely. It's much easier to believe there are some sponsors that just don't want to deal with the issue of nudity, in today's moral and politcal climate; and because there are few places one can use a prize winning image containing nudity for promotion of their product or their generosity.

I don't think anyone has a valid concern or objection to Renderosity's policy of no nudity in contests. There is a concern when nudity rules are being applied to figures that have no genitals when those figures are...well...creatures and beasties, and they are "blank" between their legs. Nudity is widely defined as the exposure of genitals and when said figures not only are creatures and beasties, but have no genitals to expose, they can hardly be considered to be nude just as. It taxes my mind to it's very limt to believe any "corporate sponsor" could be so ultra-prudish or be the least bit concerned about sexual harrassment charges resulting from displaying such an image. I honestly cannot, even in my wildest dreams, come up with any sane reason that would justify such a requirement. :blink:

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