Favoriting Porn Makes Me Feel Icky
14 years ago
I always feel weird favoriting porn or nude pictures. Mostly because I don't favorite it because of that, I just like the picture regardless of the genitalia exposure or not. It bears no correlation to what I find "exciting", though I don't usually find much furry art arousing anyway. But it still makes me feel weird, like I'm saying "Yeah, I find this hot" when I really don't.
Also stories, I don't usually favorite them because I found them arousing; I do because they've been well-written in general and I enjoyed reading them. (Actually in my experience writing tends to fall apart a lot more in porn than not-porn because writing with the explicit purpose of arousal towards some fetish generally requires you to ignore a lot of common sense and have to cut out a lot of decent stuff.)
I'm not saying that people shouldn't put in sex or nudity or whatever. I don't really care, you can do what you like. But I think it does complicate things for some people if you include it.
Then again this is FA where making it porn may make it up to an order of magnitude more palatable, and a bunch of artists get money off of making masturbation material for others, so... yeah.
Also stories, I don't usually favorite them because I found them arousing; I do because they've been well-written in general and I enjoyed reading them. (Actually in my experience writing tends to fall apart a lot more in porn than not-porn because writing with the explicit purpose of arousal towards some fetish generally requires you to ignore a lot of common sense and have to cut out a lot of decent stuff.)
I'm not saying that people shouldn't put in sex or nudity or whatever. I don't really care, you can do what you like. But I think it does complicate things for some people if you include it.
Then again this is FA where making it porn may make it up to an order of magnitude more palatable, and a bunch of artists get money off of making masturbation material for others, so... yeah.
Omnikitsune
~omnikitsune
I agree with you automata. I feel much the same way. It's kinda why I try to stay away from porn and usually only go with the mature ones at most with a couple of exceptions that I either find the story entertaining or I like the artwork. Though I admit in some cases arousal has played a part in the faving of them.
DamnBear
~damnbear
Sometimes it's best not to favorite porn, furry politics and personal preferences don't mesh well. I tend to favorite traditional art styles that impress me, I watch artists that produce material(s) that I enjoy visually, artistically, or that helps me enjoy myself.
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