Is This Really Necessary?

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Heya everyone ~

Chances are, if you're reading this, then either you just saw that I posted this and are reading this journal, or you're a person who came onto my account and said something along the lines of "Put a mature filter on your fetish art please" and I replied with this journal.

First off, you should know that as a fetish artist, I really don't give two flying flapjacks about your want for a mature filter - it's your opinion and I'm totally cool with that; you can go around and demand a mature content filter all the live long day if you'd like! But the only person that can force me to mature filter my content is DeviantArt itself. If you're not DeviantArt, you're wasting your time - and not figuratively either, you're literally wasting your time trying to make me do something that you can't physically force me to do. So there's that c:


Second off, I made this journal so you could both educate yourself on why fetish art isn't mature content unless made so, and also so it could deter the little children that don't like to read alot. Sorry 10 to 13 year olds! You're not even supposed to be on this site! c:


So in this journal, I'd like to cover a few things:



1) What is a fetish?



More than likely, you've said somewhere at one point that a fetish is (I'll just take the words straight from :iconcypruns: Cypruns himself:

"a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc." 

"Having an extreme fixation, usually sexually satisfying on something." (This definition doesn't even make any sense but whatever. I think he missed a comma after "satisfying".)


So, firstly, both of these definitions are incorrect. The correct definition of a fetish, as defined by my college professors (Specifically four different Literary Composition and Analysis Professors, all with the same answer to the question), is an obsession over a body part or object or even an action, which can develop over time into a sexually satisfying obsession. So there you go. No more thinking that it's automatically sexual.


And if you still think that it's just inherently sexual, well I'm a prime example of the fact that it's not something sexual. I have no sexual attraction to vore unless the picture is intended to be sexually explicit, in which case I mature content the art anyways, like this image is mature filtered: DDV #75 - Underwears


So hopefully you can see how I have not a sexual fetish, but rather just an obsession with something that happens to be universally known as sexual (for some reason, since it's not).



2) DeviantArt Terms and Policies



Oh boy, I love this topic. No one reads the DeviantArt terms and policies, especially when it comes to mature content related artwork.

Maybe because they know their argument holds no foundation if you actually read the policies that DeviantArt calls for...

I'll save you the trouble of finding it yourself:
Screenshot (28) by PingTheHungryFox


So here's the lovely DeviantArt rendition of what is mature content.

First off, does my artwork fall underneath these? Since I've already covered that fetishes are not inherently sexual, but rather are made sexual, you can't throw my artwork under the sexual themes category unless it features a provocative pose OR lewd themes (such as missing clothing on a provocative pose).
(A good example would be the picture I tagged up above: DDV #75 - Underwears )


QUICK QUESTION: How many of you have seen a picture on DeviantArt that wasn't about a fetish that had a provocative pose?

Almost everyone. Technically those should be mature content filtered.

Yeah, those lovely sexual erotic pictures that alot of little teens flap their wanky to? Things like These and definitely This.
Should be mature filtered.


Secondly, none of my artwork violates any of the mature content types. I don't do nudity, it's not my thing - I don't do violence or gore, as I never show any digestion explicitly, there's no strong language and I don't violate anyone's political/religious beliefs.

I swear if you make a joke to cannibalism -




3) Censorship




Simply put, I don't like censoring my artwork. I want those who have these fetishes not to feel isolated or beat down because they don't desire what everyone else desires. If someone wants to see vore, I don't want them to be limited to see what they want to see! Plus, whenever I put a mature filter on my artwork, it makes it harder for people outside of DeviantArt to see it, so I really don't want to put that mature filter on it or else I'll get less views.

Oh no! PingTheHungryFox cares about his view count?? He cares that people sees his artwork??? THAT'S NOT OKAY IT'S TIME TO TAKE HIM DOWN

Jesus Christ - I rely on people seeing my art. Since I do commissions 75% of the time, I rely on those funds to pay for meals I have in real life, so hell to the no I'm not going to mature filter my art! I need more people to see it!



That and, just so you all are educated and everything about it, Google doesn't filter any mature filtered artwork on DeviantArt.



Screenshot (72) by PingTheHungryFox Whoop, there's this picture: DDV #75 - Underwears

And I have that picture mature filtered.


Goddamn it Google. Smh.



4) Anti-Fetish Accounts




I'll be completely honest with you, Anti-Fetish Accounts can be hilarious. TheFandomMenace and that one Racoon guy that I hear about every now and then - those guys are hilarious in their videos. But, at the same time, I can't help but say they remind me of Leafy clones...

Okay, okay, whatever, this journal isn't about that.

So, I have no beef with these guys, okay? So don't go around saying I challenged them to a duel or something lol

What I want to talk about is the people that follow them.


Some people are really nice and kind and they actually kindly ask you to do things and be nice about it and when I tell them a whole shpeil, they say "Oh wow, I didn't know that! Still, I'd like a mature filter on this," and I kindly say, "No problem! I respect your opinion, but I won't do that, sorry :c "

AND THAT'S IT.


Believe it or not, that's how it goes! 

Now, when I'm talking to some 13-15 year old on this site and they're rude as all hell, and they like to poke at you and say kill yourself or use memes and everything to try and aggravate you... That stuff is some cancerous stuff, because almost everyone does that now.

I see accounts all over the place that get threatened to be doxed and are told to kill themselves and it's honestly freaking stupid at this point.


So, this was more about how idiotic the following of some anti-fetish accounts can be. I love TheFandomMenace's cause (I wished he was a little bit more understanding from both sides, but he's a pretty good guy and he's kind to the people that follow him, just like me, so I respect him) but sometimes the people that try to back it up drive it right down into the dirt with their comments and SJW attitude. Eck, it's pretty bad.

I'd get screenshots, but I don't want to cause a hate riot.



5) DeviantArt's Free Posting Policy




DeviantArt doesn't care.

DeviantArt doesn't care.

DEVIANTART DOESN'T CARE!

DEVIANTART STILL DOESN'T CARE!!!


I'll tell you, that if DeviantArt really cared, there would have already been a fetish art mature filter. Like I said, TheFandomMenace's idea is great - I'd use that mature filter, because then my artwork would be narrowed down to a specific population! But there's uh... There's kinda one thing in the way there...


DeviantArt doesn't care.


DeviantArt was made to be a free posting platform, in a little sense kind of like Youtube, and it doesn't interact with its posters frequently. In that sense, the only vibe that I get from DeviantArt is that they just don't care. They're here to maintain at least a little bit of control, but it looks like all of this Youtube-esque drama is just flying right past them because they ain't having none-of-that. If DeviantArt doesn't care, and I think I'm doing the right thing, I'm going to continue doing said right thing.

So I'm not going to put a mature filter on art that needs no mature filter c:





Hope this educated you and helped you understand the fundamentals of logistics in physics engineering and now you know how to make a blackhole and save the world from litter permanently!

Well, of course there are going to be people that oppose this, but whatever. I did my best.


Anyways, I won't be really replying to comments on this one, so let me know what you think, but I probably won't answer due to time constraints ;3;/

Hope you all enjoyed that little shpiel ~


Have a great day! :heart:


Love,
-PingTheHungryFox :heart: ~
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LordCobra117's avatar
I have a fetish for vore and I gotta say, that showed em