STOP calling your crappy porn 'artistic nude'.

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So, i've been on dA off and on for about 6 years now. That's a lot of time of involvement in this community.
I'm primarily a writer, and i had many inactive periods here, but i always came back to enjoy amazing art & share amazing ideas with amazing people. :meow:

And i'm back again, feeling quite inspired these last few months.
I appreciate any form of visual expression, but as a hobbyist my main interest is photography.
Among everything else, i love good artistic nude photography! :heart:
So in my many scavenges-for-wonders i couldn't help but notice some very annoying phenomenona concerning this kind of art, which will be my *kahm* pleasure to present to you further on.


But first of all, i'd like to explain how it came to the provocation for writing this spiteful journal.   
I'm (meh, only partially to be honest) sorry for publicly pointing at other individuals, but it seems it had to be done.

Recently i had this *huge* ugly fight this deviant :iconmichaelov:
I don't usually get myself involved in other peoples' business around here, but this mighty fellow had the nerve to repeatedly insult other deviants – visitors on his profile, just because their comments weren't positive enough, including a girl who just politely asked him if he and his girlfriend are really having sex on some of the pictures (few shown bellow) in his gallery.
That pissed me off so much that i asked him to get a grip of his attitude towards other artists because his works are closer to the 'low budget porn' category anyway, and wouldn't even get accepted if he didn't put so much effort to bypass the rules.
Of course that was the point where he immediately started honoring me with some special version of his aggression,
and then added "we are having so much fun, so i don't give a damn if you like it or not" and the all-time most popular rationalization - "if you don't like it, you don't have to see it".

I replied that he needs to be aware he's putting something out there for the world to see, actually on a site whose main purpose is PROMOTING ART and ENABLING FEEDBACK on the same. And when you go public, you need to be ready for critique. Well, after another round of insults, i gave him my share of nastiness as well.
   
For a while i thought that's just how things normally work. You see, this guy seemed to have no problem whatsoever that the only other feedback he gets consists of celebrations of his girlfriend's wet vagina followed by people expressing gratitude for supplying them with such good material for their last masturbation.
Kahm, examples.

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… Mmm. Ok, let's say that's lovely and all – but i don't see what the hell is it doing here?
You see, i'm on neutral grounds about crappy porn – I don't give a damn about it.
I just have a BIG problem seeing it here.



Anyway.

The point is:
As time goes by, people come up with more and more creative ways of going around dA's official rules about nudity and sexual content.
This is a place dedicated to giving all art a chance to be seen; and certain individuals, day after day, are consciously or unconsciously stuffing it up with junk.
I see that as an abuse – if everything is allowed to enter, that opens a loophole for the submittal of softcore/hardcore pornographic garbage and rubbing it off people's eyes when they search for artistic nude photography.


My humble observations have shown the following.

On one side, we have the male kind – endless galleries of photos of male genitalia being photographed just for the sake of it, combined with descriptions such as "waiting for u". Most often they are put out there with one sole purpose: to cuddle one's ego image as an invincible stud whose potency should be observed from all around the world.
Examples.

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Hanging by maxsure
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Then here come the gals – again, endless galleries of photos of nude girls, sometimes CLEARLY underage, just chilling at home in the middle of the messy room, showing us how hot they are – also just for the sake of it. Of course, with the usual accompanying titles and descriptions, for example "eager to be taken mmm".
It's like the *naughty* equivalent of  'decent' pictures that people put on their profiles on social networks. Or, just imagine the pictures of half-naked chicks in their bathrooms that occasionally pop up on facebook being submitted on dA, under the category 'artistic nude'!

Imagine no more, it's right here.

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Red bush by EBrummer

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at the door by lahabana
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On the last photo, many random visitors left comments describing how turned on they are.
To one of them, the artist herself replied:
"hehe don't be i'll fix it for you im a naughty lil slut i love sucking hard c**k and with no gag reflex i can go deep and hard"

                      ...Feel free to form your own opinion about that.


Sometimes i seriously wonder why don't they publish it on their facebook/whatever profiles as well, if it's a part of their prideful artistic creation? Or is this site perceived like the perfect wasteland for the 'naughty' side of the "free-minded", because everything is art, right? RIGHT? :faint:


But that's about the pornstar wannabe's. There is still one big catergory left - the real porn.
Examples.

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In 6 years, i have never felt compelled to become the judge of what should or shouldn't be placed on dA, yet i am so revolted and disguisted by this that i had the urge to publicly share my views.

I hate seeing one of my favorite places on the internet become something that not only doesn't match it's stated vision and purpose – but also devaluates the serious work of people who try to create truly amazing art in this specific category.
I mean, artistic nudes are still provoking conflicted opinions, a lot of people are clinging on the belief that it's just another name for good old pornography. And these quasi artistic nude works are not helping at all.

Open mindeness is cool. Great. Acceptance of the carnal human nature.
I truly respect it, it's a way of celebrating and gloryfing the intriguing beauty of our human bodies and sometimes even expressing the deepest emotions and visions through them.
Revealing the hidden messages of the flesh – that's just as important as the ones we capture in our mind, because we are creatures who unite the seemingly ununatable body and soul.

But what's really happening here is an abuse.
If someone tries to search for some amazing artistic nude photography here on dA, most of the results he will get will belong to the above mentioned flood of meaningless self promotion coming from people whose only aspiration seems to be getting a spot in the porn industry.
It just doesn't belong here, hiding under the veil of art.
It needs to be stopped.


If you agree, please show your support by reporting works that violate the rules, sharing your criticism about works that don't violate the rules but insult everyones common sense and good taste, or joining some of these groups:

:iconkeep-da-porn-free: :iconantiporn-da: :iconartistsagainstporn:

If you don't, feel free to explain your opinion with arguments.
If you are not able to do that, run along and keep doing your...thing.



:iconcip33: And now for some beautiful and inspirative pieces of what artistic nude really looks like! :iconcip33:


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Yin Yang by ulorinvex
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An Hour May it Lay in Ruins by lepersabstain

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It's all Feliz fault III by zenibyfajnie

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hollow by zenibyfajnie

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Be Obedient by zenibyfajnie

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Tiffany 6 - Splash by BareLight

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Listen To The Heartbeat by dwingephotography

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Amber 1 by BareLight

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Sarah 5 by BareLight

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laces by scottchurch

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Watermind by dydorova

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Angel by vanner

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alya VIII by ToryLabel
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The Faceless by HereticPandora

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serpentine by HereticPandora

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Shadowfire933's avatar

I understand artistic nude as a sketch point of view as long as its professional like a position but if its like a girl sucking on someones genitals or something like that then its considered porn i mean i know art schools and institutes use nude models to draw anatomy art at times and thats not at fault its when you use your phone to selfie your tits or ass or other parts is disgraceful and cringy. I just want to view creative art that isnt about someone getting bondaged or gagged in a drawing or some clean people photography in which they pose professionally instead of focusing on one body part like their asses up to the lenses or boobs. I hate porn i hate hentai i hate nude fanart that fetishes grow out of and hopefully people will understand where I come from with my point.