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> believe it or not, art does not revolve exclusively around porn. Sorry, but you're missing the point. The problem isn't that all art is porn. It's that all p
by jchw 3y ago
> believe it or not, art does not revolve exclusively around porn.
Sorry, but you're missing the point. The problem isn't that all art is porn. It's that all porn is art.
A drawing or a photograph is not magically less of a creative endeavor because there's a dick in it, or two people fucking. It does create some complications for cultural or other human reasons, but it changes squat about the actual creative input. It sparks emotions, and why anyone ever thought appealing to the emotion of lust was any less valid than any other emotion is confusing as hell to me.
Constraints and limitations sometimes breed a level of creativity, but when you just suddenly limit expression to the degree that Tumblr did, it's a smack in the face to artists, even ones that do not necessarily produce pornography at all. I know they had their reasons, but still.
Of course, you can still have an art community with no porn. Obviously. But what they did was cut off a lot of people's existing avenues for expressing things, and that is not something that people tend to take lightly. It feels very personal.