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I'm not fond of sex pics at all, be they hetero or homo. There's a reason why it's done in private and not out in the streets like dogs, birds, etc. It's a very private thing and should be kept as such. I'll get off mah soapbox now. mrgreen

I still kind of wonder if half the populous of Japan is gay... Obviously, a male character in a cartoon can't have a male best friend for whom he cares for like a brother without being gay as well. Or the friend is gay... stare

ANYWHO. 12 year olds in D-cups?? Weirdos... It's kind of like Rei and Asuka from Evangelion. You can find all these... obscene pictures of them and they're only 14, for cryin' out loud! What kind of message are we sending to the young people of our day and age?

@Euclids- Japan, ironicaly, is much less homophobic than America or other western countries... My god, my school had a festavle while I was there, and about 75% of the boys were in full blown drag... It was rather funny. Also, I got asked if I was gay once or twice... And all the kids thought it was so cool that I had gay friends. -_-;

Oh- and quite a few of their male comidians are cross dresser. Look up Gorie-chan sometime... There's a full life size statue of him/her in the narita airport.




But yeah... Characters that hate eachother should always hate eachother. They shouldn't secrently havesex or be obsessed with the other person... It's just annoying...


And I agree that if there is a sex picture, the artistic merit should be outstanding. If it's badly drawn or colored... it's not hot...it's just BAD

those japanese bands creep me out, like Luna Sea, Malice Mizer, or Dir en Grey...they're all so feminine. i swear, every time i see a picture of Mana i think it's a girl. it just isn't natural...

@euclids: i agree with you on the sex thing to an extent. i mean, if everything that was supposed to be private remained private and was never in art at all...that would be pretty boring. it seems like we'd pretty much have portraits, landscapes and still life pictures and...that's about it. thats how i see it, anyhow. now don't get me wrong, i don't like looking at super explicit sex pictures, but i see nothing wrong with drawing something which can be a raw and beautiful expression of passion and love. but unfortunately, tasteful sex pictures are hard to find XD

@Cap'n:
xd

I have to admit, I'm not much into many of the Asian males, but Hyde's pretty cute.

@Ulterior:
... Really? They make up for it in anime, though. xd

Those pictures... Oh, gosh... xd They didn't even bother with a wig or anything...

The French were like that anyway. That's partially why it's called the "Baroque" period anyway, since "baroque" means extravagant, gaudy, excessive, complex, etc.

@kirio:
Yes, Mana looks so darned female, it's not even funny. Wonder why they've gone with that trend... *goes on a research trip*

Eh??? Why would motion be kept private??? But I see what you're getting at. So, I shall rephrase: such close intimacy as sex should be kept under wraps and not waved around. I don't mind kissing, etc., but when it starts getting provocative and brings up the lustful side of intimacy, then it's gone too far.

Looking back at that paragraph, do I make any sense? sweatdrop

hey, i didn't mention any names, you did. i just simply told a story. and don't worry, i don't think she'll look at any more asian people after what happened that day rofl

Euclids: hm...i definately see your point(s), and i agree: i'm not so into explicit/borderline (or 100%) porn pictures, nope. i don't really like what i tactfully refer to as "naked heaving in the dark," however, i do believe that pictures with sex in them CAN be tasteful, but they usually arent. for me to like it, it has to be masterfully done (with oodles of passion, love, etc. not really into the lust thing unless its very not-showy, because you can see lust in someone's face, don't need a full body thing for that), otherwise i'm just like "wtf, why would you draw/paint/photograph that?"

as for privacy, i both agree with and don't agree with it. it is a very intimate and very private thing that shouldn't be plastered everywhere, but at the same time, i believe that art should have no bounds, especially not in the realms of emotion. so i'm torn.

whew. now i don't look like a total perv, lol.

@ulterior: those pictures, aesthetically, raped my eyes. i hate looking at bad crossdressers, but i like talking to them, and i do have a lot of respect for them (unless they do it for attention, which has, sadly, become something of a trend).

@jackal: its true, some "normal" people are pretty friggen ugly, and some cross-dressers make REALLY good girls/boys; it makes me both jealous and uncomfortable when i see a cross-dresser that looks better/more feminine than me....but meh, at least they're good at what they do, and they flaunt it mrgreen

First of all... I love you guys.

Second, to get along at DA you have to have very good tunnel vision. Just... don't look them. Just don't. Don't do it! gonk

Art has always been flaunting sex. I mean, look at the manuscript pages in the middle ages and such... with those hands placed precariously handling air in front of crotches (I think that sentence could make sense). Also with what was said earlier about Baroque and classical art... Venus, and Jesus, oh god, look at all the horrible fan art he has! And let us not get into Pompeii. People are just more connected now, adolecent immature kids can show off their mad skillz and project their fantasies without being commissioned to paint a chapel for someone else, that will cost a mint and better damn well be top of the line. "Art" is free and easy, and free is cheap. So easy, cheap sex.

Cheap, easy, cartoon... sex.

I think I'm going sob under my pillow now...