amstar opened this issue on May 30, 2013 · 65 posts
amstar posted Thu, 30 May 2013 at 11:57 PM
Quote - You might also consider payment processors in your witch hunt. Many payment processors (such as paypal, for example) are pretty strict when it comes to nudity on merchant websites as they have pretty fine lines about what they consider pornography. They don't give two shits if you call it art. In that regard, it's not up to the merchant website to decide, they have to abide by the rules of their payment processing companie(s).
Be glad rosity allows nudity at all, because of that.
Visa recently went on a crusade against all sites that contained any adult content, or anything they deemed to be adult content. I'm not sure if that's still going and I don't know the specifics about it.
There are other poser-content sites that have had serious problems obtaining payment processors due to the simple fact they display naked 3D figures on their pages or in their marketplace.
And, there are community members and customers here who are from countries whose laws don't even allow kissing to be displayed in public or in any media, much less nudity. They're considered serious crimes and can bring a lot of trouble from the governments.
Just some points to consider when lashing out at a group of people and/or a website for being too conservative for your tastes, before looking at all the facts.
~Shane
I'm sorry but I am assuming you are wrong, re processesors, because Renderosity was accepting nudity since day one and THEY have now apparently started the witch hunt on nudity. It would be hard to believe that Visa has now suddenlty turned on Rosity. I don't know of course.
And it's still a solution where no problem exists!! Do you really think customers have suddenly started complaining about nudity when it used to be hard to find a figure without? You just expected to see the skin texture you were buying. Now Renderosity is jumping on the "we don't want to be seen as promoting the shameful nude body" band wagon. It's very tragic.
I'm sorry that there are countries where kissing is prohibited, does that mean we should ban kissing in wetern countries as well? It's ludicrous to think we can cater for every custom and religion. The point is: what is what is moral and right?
Now if you can tell me about the evils and harms of nudity, then I will be all ears!! Please explain to me how nudity harms society!!
Don't you think it would be nice if actions were based on solid reasoning and not superstition, ancient customs and conformity?