Some Problematic Art

 

This sequence, which I titled "Don't Ride with Strangers," is a remake/reimagining of a much older piece of mine by the same name.  It was the most recent feminization piece I posted to deviantART, but I took it down it a few months after the fact because I feared that someone in charge might have taken issue with the age of the guy in it or might do so in the future, even though as a cartoon drawing, I don't think anyone could definitively pinpoint whatever his age is supposed to be.  Ironically, part of the reason I decided to redo that earlier piece is because, aside from thinking I could do a better job now, I was concerned that I'd given the guy in it a much too youthful appearance the first time around and wanted to make him older, but due to some complications, I thought there was a chance he might still not look old enough for someone's liking.

I wrote about this at length on dA, but I'll try to give a more concise account of events here.

In September of last year, I received a notification from deviantART informing me that the account I'd created for my fetishistic work had been suspended and was in imminent danger of being deleted unless I removed certain artwork that was supposedly in violation of that site's guidelines.  Frustratingly, when I pressed for clarification, I received an unhelpful form reply stating that they were unable to cite specific examples, forcing me to guess which images had landed me in hot water.  

Although this situation was annoying, I can't pretend like I had absolutely no clue as to which pictures of mine had potentially been deemed objectionable.  I've done a number of femdom drawings of young male teens being feminized and/or spanked, etc.  This kind of thing is not uncommon in petticoating art and the like, and while I personally see it as relatively harmless, I can understand why some people might have a problem with it.

Honestly, I think pretty much all my erotic fantasies have problematic elements.  While it's obviously important that anything sexual in nature in the real world be done between consenting adults, I can't remember the last time I experienced arousal by fantasizing about something totally "vanilla" or doing something entirely voluntarily, which is why nonconsensual femdom and forced feminization appeal to me.  

When I first started exploring erotica on the internet, some of the earliest femdom stories that resonated with me were ones in which the male protagonists were not yet full-grown adults.  For one thing, at the time, I was much closer to the ages of those characters, but even now, I feel like I relate more to characters who are more immature, naive and inexperienced.  I just find it more exciting when someone like that is thrust into a sexy situation.  Also, from a logical perspective, when the activities in question are nonconsensual in some way, if the protagonist isn't yet an independent adult, it provides a handy explanation as to why he simply doesn't walk away.

One of my favorite stories by Bea may be "Maid Machiavelli," which is about the secret relationship between a guy and his stepmother's dominant maid, who the narration states has been sexually controlling him since at least the time he had hit puberty.  The word "groomer" gets bandied about way too loosely nowadays by bigoted conservatives, but if we were to apply real world standards, what occurs in that story is textbook grooming.  In reality, that maid would absolutely deserve to go to jail.  Still, I can't help finding it hot... as fiction, that is.  Then there's Bea's longer story "Aunt Fanny's Girls," in which the protagonist ends up in a sexual relationship with his high school guidance counselor.  There are possibly other examples that aren't coming to mind now.  Since I can differentiate between fantasy and reality and have no problem saying that there's certain content that I enjoy in stories that I would condemn in real life, I don't feel an excessive amount of guilt over what turns me on, especially since I don't fantasize about hurting anyone, but rather imagine being the submissive/victim in any given scenario.

That said, I do have qualms over the rare stories Bea wrote in which he inserted female characters who were uncomfortably young.  The reason I don't have an issue with femdom art or stories with male characters who haven't yet reached adulthood is because I believe the purpose of such characters is usually to essentially serve a surrogate for the author/artist and the male fans of such work.  On the other hand, if the author/artist is involving female characters who are on the overly young side in their work, I'm afraid it does make me wonder a little about them.  Sorry, Bea.

After I thought I'd sorted everything out with deviantART and my account had been reinstated, I received another notification a few days later letting me know that a moderator had deleted an installment of an incomplete feminization comic of mine.  They claimed that the male character in it was under eighteen.  What made that decision so baffling was that, not only was there no visible nudity, sex or even touching of any sort in it, I hadn't even intended the male to be below under eighteen in that case.  It seems that someone simply saw that he was shorter than the female character and automatically declared him to be underage, which is utterly absurd, but I had no way to prove what my intentions were.  I think taller women are sexy; so sue me.  I may need to put a disclaimer in all my art from now on that all the imaginary participants are above the age of consent... assuming I ever find the necessary drive to get back into drawing.