At 1/3/24 04:14 PM, Thetageist wrote:
So I’m… starting to realize that I’m not really interested in porn. It was an exciting feeling when I initially realized I could look at it legally and without feeling bad, but it just kinda turned out that the novelty was the only thing I found appealing.
That being said, there’s more than one way to use nudity and sexual themes in art than just creating something for an audience to be aroused by. I want to find other people who are interested in using adult art as a storytelling device or for other purposes, but aren’t just drawing straight-up porn. (Ironic usage is fine too - I’ve applied porn tropes to monsters before in order to elicit mixed emotions, and I thought that was amusing.)
I legitimately don’t know where to look. There’s an NSFW artist hangout thread here, but I’m 99.99% sure it’s literally just porn artists. The same is probably going to be true for almost any other Art Forum thread on the same subject. So where do I go instead?
Softcore NSFW is a thing. I think @nylonics art is like more so like that. They post more so on their X/Twitter account than their Newgrounds account. Maybe a thing to look into. Don't have many other examples. I think they are also working on a comic that is NSFW, but not focused on sex.
Not very common, because it usually doesn't add much to a story or media to add full NSFW art for their story, in fact doing so usually reduces the audience anyway. Which is why people would rather just have a tasteful censored pan. Seeing what a characters genitalia looks like or them doing the dirty doesn't usually add much to the story.
To be honest, I sometimes feel this same way about prolonged PG romantic scenes. How much does every second of the make-out and fondling of each other add? If the story was written well, I should understand how much they like each other.
But there are some times I can see there being some artistic not pornographic use of adult content in art.
- The context is gritty reality. Not necessarily violent. Like just trying to convey the adult uncensored existence of that world. So dark dramas and horror come to mind. The adult content, or in another way the not trying to censor the adult content adds to the "real" and "believability", because the universe itself is trying to be raw, uncensored, not hiding anything.
- The art piece is about the human body (or whatever not censored version of the creature). Like anatomy reference or practice. But also perhaps the piece is like on the subtext of it. If a piece of art is about someone's self value in their looks it makes sense. Doesn't always have to be negative. Could be their proud-ness or in the least acceptance. Censoring would get in the way the message or even contradict it.
- Comedy, like you said. If something is funny, adult or not, why censor if it would ruin or detract from the humorous tones.
But in terms of groups? Don't know what you would call it. Softcore, is still semi-erotic usually, but I don't know any other sort of group. Maybe a new SoftestCore, lol.
