PerfectN opened this issue on Jun 23, 2007 · 124 posts
Conniekat8 posted Sat, 23 June 2007 at 8:48 PM
Yeah, what acadia said!
The thing is that this site is trying to cater to a rather wide audience.
I for one are glad that nudity on thumbnails is limited, because it allows me to cruise the site while at the office, during lunch, withot getting fired for material inappropriate in a workplace (nudity), and also, I can look through things at home without worring about one of the younger teenagers in the house wondering what I'm looking at. There's warning when going from PG to to nudity.
So, with too much nudity, I would not be able to see a lot of good art without nudity (without getting myself fired or in hot water over it).
Also, there's so much friggin' nudity around this site as it is, I'm more intrigued by clothed then nude figures any more.
If boys want to look and nude chicks, doesn't mean they have to be in my face the minute I peek into a gallery. And one has to admit that geat many nudes on this site aren't exactly 'art nudes' and artistic body studies. They are images with rather heavy sexual connotations. Dare I call them sexual fantasy material.
Bottom line is, sexual fantasy material isn't exactly appropriate in a relatively PG environment.
It doesn't have much to do with having a personal distaste for nudes, and everything to do with a lot of people having their own 'house rules' in the environments they are in when viewing the galleries and images.
Pjz99 brought up a good point about vendors too. I almost never look at the marketplace when at work, because of nudity. I can't check out a lot of characters without being bombarded with pubic hairs etc... so, as a result of that, my marketplace browsing time is rather limited. If it weren't, I would have purchased a lot more stuff then I have.
Anyway, I wrote this to offer some perspective for those whom insist on freedom of their expression. Just because they are pushing to express themselves a certain way, it doesn't mean that it will get their expression noticed, heard or appreciated, or that their form of expression is appropriate for the place where they are wanting to express it.
I mean, heck, I could inist on walking around the world naked, everywhere I go, regardless of whether it's socially acceptable or not, and insist that it's a form of an artistic expression, and get mad and cry censorship at everyone that yells at me to put some clothes on. If I did that, most people would think I'm a nutcase.
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