Oh dear :(

What piece of F!

This is terrible that artists are so restricted in their freedom.

But don't let yourself be finished, your art is wonderful.

It makes no sense either. The tiny black bars don’t censor well/can be SUPER easily removed and shopped out and most of the dirtiest kinkiest stuff comes from Japan so why bother upholding that law?

I don't know the laws in Japan for pictures.

It is not so easy in Germany either because it can be seen as zoophilia.

I uncensored Japanese porn in my free time when friends used to ask me to. I’ve gotten super good at redrawing over the sensor and matching lines and colors so it always struck me as odd how useless those black bars were

This is super shit for Artca, so don't think I'm defending this. I like explaining history.

It's because the law pretty much mirrored US puritan laws right after WW2 (There's cultural history too, but it's complicated.) However, while the US laws were updated, the Japanese did not. Since it was written into their constitution, it was much harder to change. Basically: you can draw penises all you want, but you can't distribute them.

So they've just been interpreting it leniently. Somewhat recently they allowed pubic hair to be shown uncensored. And no politician wants to go on the career-ruining campaign to amend the law so people have better porn.

TL;DR: Old law everyone knows doesn't make sense, including the lawmakers. Enforces anyway because Japan is a conservative country (and rabble-rousing is often frowned upon.)

TIL, thank you :D

talk about a shitstorm of fuck

Congrats on managing to offend modern day cultists and their dark age values: With the gorgeous stuff you draw, I can only imagine what did it. I haven't used that service and barely heard of it, thank goodness for that... I'm sure there are alternatives but that sucks and it's another reminder of the miserable and laughable times we live in.

Pixiv is Japanese and that has been the law since WW2. I know you're implying this is some recent moralism crisis or whatever, but it's pretty much the opposite: unpopular law that's hard to change.

Ah, Japan. Yeah I know some artists there had to put black bars and stuff on their art citing some medieval law, many obviously don't care as I doubt anyone would enforce something as demented as that but of course it scares others. As much as I like them on other things, Japan needs to step out of the dark ages with this stuff together with America... I mean come on they gave the world hentai and even offended the UN they should be a world leader in the fight against puritanism!

Well, um...

1. People are totally arrested for this in Japan. Though it's rare because nobody prints uncensored on a wide scale.

2. Japan's government officially denies genocide during WW2, so that's probably what you're referring too with the UN? That's just confusing to me how that correlates. The UN is like the opposite of puritanical: they're diplomats lol. They don't give a fuck about stuff like that.

3. Given how we're both posting dicks and cunts on an American-based website, I thiiiiiink our laws regarding sexual content are not nearly comparable. Like really, you can go buy hentai advertised on the street in Akihabara. It's just censored. In America, we'd find that odd regardless of censorship.

4. I'm getting some odd vibes, and I don't think you're interested in Japanese/US history, so I don't think I'm going to continue this conversation.

Was referring to the UN attempting to ban anime a few years ago. Yeah that was a thing, they tried to introduce a planetary art police because hentai and such scared them. Obviously it was dropped in early stages once the outrage grew and they realized it's not worth it.

And that's okay. I'm no expert in Japanese culture, but generally I'd regard them positively and one of the few places in this world I wouldn't mind visiting.

How do you get banned from pixiv fanbox when there are worse things from pixiv?

I recommend migrating to subscribe star, I've seen creators have no problems there as of yet.