ADDITION:
if you're in the boat of 'youre always gonna get something like this, if you don't want them, stop posting on the internet!'
yes absolutely! let me just unemploy myself by removing all my portfolios just so five people out of the 18,000 people who follow me across all my sites, don't have to understand what Unwarranted Sexual Comments and Acceptable Boundaries are

fucking PREACH

THIS x1000

Common courtesy and decency are somewhat of a rarity on this website as well as several others. Same goes for real life.
It sucks having to deal with people who lack social but that is why I keep comments on my submitted works disabled these days.

the thing is I don't want like. one or two people a month to ruin the participation abilities of everyone else. it does suck, but I'd also rather prevent the few who don't seem to understand knowledge of their kink isn't something that should be shared, rather than kick Everyone out.

Which is also a reasonable response.
Alas, there always will be 'those' people who do such because they lack the social skills to you know.. not do that.

and thats when you say 'hey your comment is uncomfortable for [reasons], I'm going to remove it now. please consider boundaries before you comment next time'

Agreed.

Some people don't think.

Unfortunately this website has a lot of NSFW art so people get the idea that all artists on here should be NSFW artists. All you can do is put a note in the description saying "DO NOT POST FETISH COMMENTS" or something like that and pray that they read it.
I see RUDragon get this all the time, and i think they just phase it out at this point (though their art is a bit more sexualized than yours)

Once, long ago, I had someone comment on a photo of my cat saying how pretty she was and that he wanted to date her.

I was more than mildly creeped out.

Wtf
What the actual. How do people think that's okay??? That's just wrong

I wish I were joking.

I question their mental state already. Yup, nope nope nope instablock

Sorry that happened :(

I'm fine, long since past, but things like this have been around for so long, and it's been getting worse. I'm hoping for a solution, like awareness this journal brings :>

All for the 'Keep Creepy Off SFW' and show some decency on NSFW.

common decency
thats something this fandom lacks, sadly.
i usually only make stupid comments on peoples art if i KNOW them personally, but it seems like random people take taht as 'oh i see this person being 'creepy', so that means i can to'

its just
uhg
internet
lol

It's not just this fandom. It's everywhere, including IRL. Sadly the fandom's just a reflection of society as a whole.

Even if I am doing and uploading nsfw pictures from time to time doesn't mean I wanna hear how turned on a random, creepy stranger is. Not to mention comments about "what they would do" to the subject on the picture.
Comments like that are absolutely unacceptable in most scenarios

This!

Most of my work ends up being NSFW commissions and while I'm personally fairly lax and not really bothered when it comes to "this is hot" comments, I still DO NOT ever want to hear the creepy comments about what they want to do to the character, how turned on people are, or those seemingly trying to roleplay? Stuff like that is gross and some people don't understand boundaries at all. Half the time I just laugh, give the x) face thing, or just ignore it -- cause I just don't know what to say to it! XD

Seriously though, peeps need to learn boundaries. SFW or NSFW, the artist behind the picture is still a human being -- most I assume don't feel comfortable with gross comments ¬^¬

YUP. this happens a ton. Like... I can deal with the playful flirty type stuff, but when it turns into... well, pretty much what you said, if not in explicit detail, that's when I don't touch it with a 10 ft pole.

Stop being creepy and cringy, internet.

Please.

jus stahp

Preach it.
Some of us like particular kinds of characters because they're fun to draw/cute/excuse to draw different textures etc
Not because we want the creepy comments.

Thank you <3

I’m not even an artist and I get comments like this all the time. Mainly what they would “do” to me or something when I’m clearly in a relationship as well. People just don’t respect boundaries.

Yes, I do get plenty of NSFW art but people have to make it creepy and say stuff they shouldn’t say. And I have never gotten NSFW art with a random. That’s never gonna change.

And same for what art I have taste in. People think art is to please them and them only. When it’s mainly to please oneself or show oneself skill in what they can draw.

"Look at this thing on the internet! It's obviously not catering to my kinks or fetishes, but there is a /part/ of what I like in it! Let me tell the artist how much I want to do XYZ with their artwork because I JUST NEED TO TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT IT OHHH"

My friend once posted an innocent piece of artwork that he received on commission and someone inserted their foot fetish into it. And in the art they were borderline nonexistent already. Sometimes I wonder if it isn't a lack of control, but that imposing your interests on others is a fetish of its own? Like come on.

I've been lucky so far to have a bare minimum of this type of conversation but there's been enough cringe that I just...I'm disappointed really.

I had someone on twitter comment on a dragon character on how they liked her soft pink belly and how she was covering up her crotch area with her feet and I asked them not to make such a comment on my art and my character
they said 'can't I appreciate a beautiful lady?'
no? do you catcall women on the street? I don't want your gross comments, goodbye
and then they had the balls to get all self-righteous and say I had a stick up my ass when I blocked them

they probably do catcall women on the street ._.

Odds are good that yes, they talk like that in RL.

Amen

I can't specifically say anything in regard to nsfw art since a few people have relaxed boundaries regarding their work, and others would prefer creepy comments kept to a minimum - but even so. it should be up to the commenter to figure out what is acceptable for them, in that case, and yet they fail the basic human standard of observing and learning
it's like they don't understand that anything with sexual nature revolves around boundaries and consent! even if it's just art! aaaaaaa!!!!

I feel your pain! I’ve had this problem with art I’ve commissioned and re-posted. Particularly from people I know, which to me is worse than a random stranger/comment. And I’m more sensitive with Rooth pics than pics of the other characters, as you can imagine.

It could be something entirely innocent, like in one case it was a bust of Rooth at a table with a hand of playing cards, looking them over, and someone found a way to make such a lewd comment that I was compelled to retag the submission as NSFW. I’ve had to do that a few times. This was before I had the ability to hide comments, and nowadays that’s usually what I’ll do, just hide the comment. But, now, there’s always that hesitancy to post my commissions lest I inadvertently invite more of the same.

When I repost my commissions on Twitter, somehow I don’t really have the same problem. Maybe because Twitter is usually a “personal voice” platform, and people censor themselves the same as they do in RL conversation, versus here where the only activity is around furry art and people have no problem letting it all out, as it were; or trolling.

Bleh. Freedom of expression and all that, but jeez, people gotta learn to respect the artist on the artist’s own page. Post a journal on your own page with a link to the sub if you wanna say something crass, but honor the artist in their space, please. :/

I'm sure you frown on me for becoming a purely "NSFW" artist after all our years together in the past. Even though what I do now, even for FurAffinity, most of the artists I watch are either exclusively SFW (like you) or minimal/lite NSFW. My favorites gallery is also a stark contrast to what I draw too.

Because of this, it does make me feel like maybe people coming to my gallery, seeing stuff like you's in my favorites is sending those people your way. I apologize for that. -.-'

As for myself, I still watch you the same way I have for about a decade now. If anything, with an even lesser "NSFW" view I may have had at any time in the past. ^^

pshh, to each their own, I'm not faulting someone's gallery - it's how they choose to conduct themselves on others' artworks is where the Judgment comes in. it's for people who treat every art like it's implied for nsfw, when it's very very obviously not.
it's also from a huge range of sources. I get a lot of odd comments on twitter, far disconnected from FA; even on FA, it's often comments from people lookin at the front page, or from keyword-watchers who are hoping for specific content on specific subjects, and must let everyone know about their specific kinks

Reading through your other comments about encounters you've had are pretty bad. You are very justified in what you and a lot of other people are saying about this. ^^

I wish you the best in figuring this out cause you really don't deserve any of that crap. >_>'

There is a strange hungry maw behind you

yeah lemme just get a hammer

that journal was hot, i wish i was there, HMMMMF!

jkjk xD

Most of my art is nsfw, but everytime i posted something sfw, there was a user that used to leave a cringy sexual comment and i had to block them xd.

you beat me to it

Preach it to the hill tops.

People can be idiots and push sexual fetish mumbo-jumbo onto anything.
Your art is fantastic keep it up! Ignore and block the idiots.

Preach! Some people have no filter and their logic behind it is the dumbest and most self entitled bs I ever read.

I love the eyebrows on this. They're so... luxuriant!

More knuckle hair plz

Hear, hear! I completely agree; it's so awkward.

It's the internet, anything that can be sexualised, will be. And unless you disable comments on your submissions, you have to expect these things. I agree that there is a time and place for such comments, but I'm afraid the culture and freedom of the internet has allowed this to become the norm.

Although complaining when someone says 'this is hot', simply referring to the attractiveness of the character, seems a little extreme. After all you might say that about someone you pass on the street. Of course it will depend on the context of the rest of the comment, but those three words by themselves, seem perfectly harmless, and not necessarily sexualising something any more than calling someone attractive or beautiful.

Naaaah, no.. nope. Ya wrong, Son.

Actually when referring to context I am right. I'll admit that saying 'this is hot' about someone is generally viewed a sexualising them. And as I said in my below comment, calling them beautiful is also sexualising them. It's just viewed as more appropriate.

But uttering those three words does not necessarily mean I'm sexualising something. After all, I'm not sexualising the weather when I say its hot am I? ^_^

It depends on the posters intention, it depends on the context, and the context of a comment can change when you add tone and body language, which is not possible to do with simple text writing. It's down to the reader to interperate it correctly, which is easy to get wrong.

if you ARE saying that to people on the street, then that's catcalling, and the recipient almost always regards it as unwanted and uncomfortable

As I said, context.

I wouldn't shout it to a random person on the street, 'catcalling' as you put it. (Although certain people dress in a particular way to get such attention. In that case do you judge the person who dressed that way, or the person 'catcalling' them? But 99 times out of a 100, as you say, the person being 'catcalled' won't be looking for it.) I may say it to someone I know, such as, "Did you see them? They are hot!" Or I might say they are 'stunning', 'beauitful', 'handsome', 'pretty' or you could describe them as 'head turning'.
All these words have the same general meaning. I could look at the most beautiful person I'd ever seen an call them beautiful. Am I sexualising them? More than likely, because we generally view attractive people as ideal mates, because this is hard wired into us at the most basic instinctual level. But most people would not take offence to me calling them beautiful, where as 'They're hot!' is viewed as a much more vulgar term, but when you get down to brass tacts it means the same thing.

My point is language is an extremely complex thing. Hell you drive fifty miles in one direction and the culture of the local language can change completely! Words and phrases which you'd never hear in the last area will be common practise. A choice of words which might be viewed as crude or vulgar in one place may be viewed as harmless, just one of those things you say. (I'm not saying that this is right, just the way that it is.)

I could keep going on about this, but what I'm trying to say is that it is all about the context of the comment itself. If you draw a picture of a character and they say 'They are beautiful' then they are sexualising the character. If they say 'The picture is beautiful', then they are likely not sexualising it, and are referring to the artstyle and quality of the picture.

Context, context, context. Anything and everything can be taken out of context. A persons choice of wording can easily be scrutaised, if that particular choice of wording is considered crass or vulgar by the rest of the world.

And lets be perfectly frank here. I agree with you. People shouldn't post comments that make people uncomfortable. But the internet has allowed anyone and everyone to be able to speak freely and with little consequence. And the problem for you in this regard is that, ultimately, culturally and undeniably, FA is a porn site. The majority of its users come here to look furry art to get, or satisfy, their arousal. FA just also happens to have non-pornographic works on here as well. If you don't want these comments then either disable your comments, or post the pictures you don't want sexualised elsewhere. Because horny people are not thinking with their brain most of the time, and they only care about sexualising something to satisfy their needs.

there's a difference between calling something beautiful and saying 'i like the way this character hides their crotch with their feet, it's sexy' on a piece where that was absolutely not the intention of the artwork, and none of the context alludes to that being the intention of the artwork. I know the difference between a compliment on the art/character/subject and a sexualising statement, and the latter is what I'm talking about. Some comments skirt the border of it, but it's the downright creepy comments I'm not wanting on my work.

FA was never intended to be a porn site outright, or it would have stringent borders in place regarding age and consent when making an account. Porn is common here, but if it's the majority, it's not by a large margin.

Ugh, I know, right?! People who just NEED to let you know what they jerk off to on your personal art of your characters (and hell, even fanart) are so gross and irritating, and doubly so if their response to criticism is "well!! the internet!!! fair game!!" :///

"LET ME MURRR AND X YOUR CHARACTER RANDOM PERSON I NEVER MET IN MY LIFE"

Back when I first joined FA, one of the very first things I submit on here was just a drawing of a fox character and THE VERY first note I got was someone asking if they could sniff her butt.

I mean, I don’t get bothered as often as I used to, but man did people shove their fetishes at me in the past....

I like your drawings

While I fully support what you are saying, you will likely not convince anyone who is too perverted to do anything else. Remember, humanity as a whole is a bunch of idiots with ego complexes to various degrees.

Hell I'd be considered extremely perverted for the things I like. I know full well to never leave unwarranted comments on someones hard work. There's not a single excuse to make someone feel uncomfortable showing their art to the public. Giving up because "humans are just like that" is just sad.

Let me ask you do you think that telling people to stop will actually do anything when it comes to those who are extremely dedicated to being perverts? Do you HONESTLY believe that you can convince them with words? That's just naive.

that's when I make the call to block them :Y

Quick question!

Say I were to leave a comment like this:

"Oh my gosh, I love this piece! Those big silly claws look especially great - those can be tricky sometimes!"

Would that be considered okay? It's calling out a specific feature I like about a piece, and I sometimes do that when I leave comments on stuff, but I've always tried to not be weird or anything about it.

yeah see that's fine - if you mentioned the claws and said 'i bet they'd be awkward going certain places ; ) ' or something like that, THAT would be a bad time
if it's specifically alluding to a sexual activity, it's unwanted. Everything else? is fine.
And even if someone IS attracted to certain features, they can still comment on them, if they know how to tailor their reply to just appreciate those features without being weird about it, i.e saying 'i love [feature]!' vs 'i love [feature], I want it to stamp on me with it '

That makes a lot of sense! Thank you for clarifying! =)

I know, right?! Not...that I've gotten any, but...I do worry about it sometimes.

I posted a photo of my DOG and got sexualized comments... like... seriously?

Me too, it was disgusting. The person who left the comment went instantly to my block list.

Internet social skills, not all of our fandom's strong suit.

I had a case last week where someone sent me a note, telling me about their fetish. I am not sure if it was a troll or something but man, this is the wooooooooorst.
So yes, I really wish people would understand this. This and other unwarranted comments. You'd think you're safe when you have not that many followers, and yet...

Well, I hope I wasn't one of these commenters, if so; I apologize.

Es el internet, desgraciadamente es asi por la "Libertad de expresion", uno tiene que reservarse dichos comentarios para algo que, no solo entre en sus gustos/fetiches sino que sea en base a eso y mas si hablamos del NSFW, hay un lugar, tiempo, espacio en donde uno puede y debe comentarlo y no, quedarse "callado" (o no escribirlo) y reservarselo para uno mismo/en su mente, ya que puede desbordarse...

Y me es estupido, que por estos comentarios, de unos pocos,algunos borren sus artes, cuentas, etc....como el bloquear la opcion de comentar, a lo mucho el Mutear/bloquear al usuario pero ni asi, simplemente ignorar dichos comentarios y pasar de largo completamnete.

Opinion.