Good evening all! 

So, I fire up the browser this afternoon and navigated to my favorite 3d store and pulled up the What’s New page to start browsing through what new toys have come out in the past several days.  You see, this is a weekly ritual for me for almost as long as Renderosity has been around.  And I don’t just look.  My wishlist is often flushed out during sales (and quickly replenished) and the queue of products I have yet to install literally fill my desktop (where I leave them until I get around to installing and storing the zips).  Sounds like utopia, doesn’t it? 

Well, it was, for a long time.  Happily upgrading Poser version after version, installing the latest and greatest content from some of the most talented 3d artist I’ve seen.  But something dark began to creep into my shopping experience.  Disturbing and not at all what I had come to expect from this great marketplace.   What started off as the occasional “sexy” pose set or slinky lingerie has blossomed into full-on, in-your-face, sexually explicit, ultra-suggestive poses, expressions, and morphs.  Quite frankly, it’s become overwhelming. 

Up until now I’ve been politely ignoring it, in hopes that everyone would eventually get their fill and move on, but it just keeps getting worse.  I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was seeing the very first product on the What’s New list today.  Despite it being from a vendor who I have the upmost respect for and have patronized many, many times before I was downright appalled to see none other than VAGINA MORPHS!  And not just one or two thrown into a larger pack of body morphs but a whole product dedicated to VAGINAS and the adornment thereof!  Numerous morphs that’ll get your V4 ready for deep penetration with just one simple click.  Considering much more capable purpose-built products like that have existed elsewhere for years I’m quite frankly baffled and ashamed that Renderosity would all of the sudden decide that their moral and ethical standards are low enough to accept this sort of filth (no offense to the vendor who created it but you should have known better than to sell it here).  Before too long I'm sure we'll start seeing penis props complete with "throbbing erection" morphs for good measure.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a prude.  I have a vagina and I am rather fond of it.  And I certainly don’t begrudge someone wanting to make or purchase these types of products, but I would never have imagined that one could be able to fulfill that need here!  It seems Renderosity is having an identity crisis.  You claim to be a family friendly site yet nearly every product comes with half-dozen or more “Content Advisory” flagged promo images, some bordering on outright blatant over-the-pants sex.  You have products for Kids4 right next to sex/bondage poses, BDMS props, and now vagina morphs (coincidently, which would load no problem onto K4 thanks to Unimesh.  Can you say "Ewww"?).  I could say it’s a slippery slope, but it already looks like the store has slid completely off the hillside and straight into the brothel next to its blacksheep cousin site who it parted ways with all those many, many years ago for just this very reason!

Well, I’m taking my dollars elsewhere until Renderosity can pick itself up out of the gutter and quit intermingling children and other family-friendly content with nude women bound with ropes hanging from the ceiling with fully articulated boobs and vaginas.  Thankfully there are still several marketplaces that don’t feel the need to shove sexually explicit products in your face at every possibility.    I just hope that I’m not alone in my impression of Renderosity’s increasing sexualization.

Have a thought-inducing nite!

NotMyActualAcct

 

(I just noticed the vagina product is mysteriously absent now but the same product for G2F is still up so I won’t be holding my breath on it not reappearing later on.  And in case you missed the flood of sponsored adverts promoting it, you can now hang your figures with ropes, BDSM-style.  I'm sure glad I quit browsing this site when my grandkids are around.  Yeeesh!)