I have fewer reservations about the image's content than I do tips about the image itself. Renderosity is a bit conservative, but they're trying to avoid trouble in terms of children accessing the site, etc. I agree that Western cultural actively advocates violence against women -- not just supports it through silence or inaction, but advocates it. I think in terms of your picture, if the penis was not there at all, it might be more acceptable. I didn't even see it at the first viewing. 1.) The figure who did the cutting is too much in the dark -- it's hard to tell that it is a woman. 2.) For emotionally charged images, I think it's a better idea to be closer on the figures. Such a distance makes the viewer more distant. 3.) If the point is to cut off the man's penis -- if that's the focus of the idea, than that fact needs more focus -- if we don't even notice it sitting there, then something's amiss. If you find that Renderosity is too restrictive, you can do one of two things -- post to Renderotica, or make your images slightly more abstract and symbolic. You can get away with much more with symbolism. One of the reasons for the emergence of Absurdism in European theatre was that playwrights from restrictive countries could express opinions about potentially explosive topics by dealing with allegory and symbols. Unfortunately, in a deomcracy (if what passes for democracy in the world can actually be called that) the government doesn't do most of the censorship -- your neighbor with the small mind and the big mouth does. Mike