spinner opened this issue on Nov 16, 2002 ยท 41 posts
dialyn posted Fri, 27 December 2002 at 4:20 PM
Erotic is in the mind of the beholder. Legume's naked blond viking with the plastic breasts are about as erotic as twin zucchinis to me (apologies to those who get a rise out of squash--this is an aversion of mine and not a reflection on your vegetable fantasies). Personally I don't think nudity automatically equals erotic anymore than violence (threatened or actual) to men or women automatically equals erotic, but some people do while other people get turned on by the sight of an unexpected bulge in clothing. So what is erotic...it is different for different people. I don't think adding "erotic" as a gallery would result in anything but an endless debate about definitions. And we have enough of those kinds of threads as it is. For example, are semi-naked fairies / elves erotic? I suspect some amount of those who created fantasy pictures would object to be thrown into the same group as the S&M crowd. And at what point is someone nude? At the neck? At the shoulders? At the chest? At the waist? At the hips? Full figured? Frontal? Rear? Implied or actual? Shadowed or full light? What is provocative to me may be subtle and unrevealing to you. You get into deep trenches here. And since it would probably be the members making the decisions about where to put their own art, their would be inconsistences of taste. My viewpoint and not worth 2 cents today.