Cheesy Art

You know, I have only been on a site called SheezyART a few days. I haven't done a lot other than upload pictures, but I did go and read a couple of things by the site’s admins. To be completely honest, when I read some stuff I thought "WTF, are these people on crack?" All I wanted to do was have a place to post my pictures and get a little feedback, more than anything from friends and family than anyone I knew from there. Now I have found that it’s also nice to meet some new friends with similar interests, especially since my friends and family don’t really give a rat’s ass about anything I take a photo of, being the lazy ne'er-do-well I am (that IS Sarcasm with a capital S, for those members of my family who may not understand that - I'm saying you are way out of fucking line in your judgements, but that's another rant altogether).
 
Now, having looked around a little more, it is giving me some pause - not because of a direct effect on anything I might do or not do with my photos, but because it is an injustice. I hate injustice. I hate immaturity as well. Most of all, I hate censorship.
 
There is a stupidity about the word "porn" and what "porn" is. Well, I can tell you - porn is SEXUAL material. That isn’t some kind of “special” liberal interpretation, that’s what it means. Some people think that anything can be interpreted as sexual, even a nipple, but that's just crap. If someone takes a picture of their own genitals, that is not really porn, unless it is in a very specific context. If they take a picture of their genitals while masturbating – that’s porn. Breasts are not porn in even the remotest sense unless they are being portrayed as part of a sexual act – they are for feeding babies. Yeah, they look nice. I like ‘em. I’ll stare at ‘em for hours. But I like eyes, too… you can convey more with eyes than you can with breasts. Doesn’t that make eyes pornographic? How about hands? Don’t most people use their hands to perform sex acts of some form or another? BAN PICTURES OF HANDS! AND EYES! All those awful perverted hand and eye pictures are ruining our society’s family values. Should I even point out that you wouldn’t have a family at all without having sex? Somewhere, sometime, someone has to have some kind of sex to make a child. Even adopted children are products of that horrible dirty sex. Test tube babies? Well, the sperm had to come from someone having sex with their hand, right? While they fantasized about sex? Maybe they were fantasizing about eyes while they did it?
 
The nude human body is NOT porn no matter what some uptight evangelist or the Republican Party of the United States would tell you. How can you even consider "moral judgements" from a completely immoral government? These are people who think it is evil and wrong for someone to see or even hear about you sticking your penis into any orifice on another completely consenting adult, yet they stick their big phallic military equipment into any country they feel like, any time! Hey you, don’t fuck your boyfriend in the ass that’s wrong – now, bend over, Iraq, while I lube up my missles. You’re next, Iran, better get ready.
 
How can anyone even think that it's OK to show our kids killing, death and violence EVERY DAY on free television, but oh no, the world will end if they see a woman's breast? What kind of a sick world is it that kids learn at 4 years old how to beat people up with Martial Arts Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger moves, but when they get to be 16 they have no idea how babies are made, or if they do it is because they have already been practicing in secret because they are afraid that someone would find out and punish them??? What's next, do we find some old Nazi War Criminals and ask them to decide what books can be published based on their "unbiased insight"?
 
Maybe it’s a sign that I don't really belong on SheezyART after all. Maybe I don't belong anywhere.
 
It is hard to find a place where you can concentrate on the stuff you do without having to be able to write HTML code as well (I can do it but it wears me out nowadays). I am on another site called “DeviantART” – what a stupid name for that site, since there is nothing actually Deviant about it – no nudity (except in one category) or sexuality is allowed, and violent acts which are portrayed are often censored. The only thing Deviant about DeviantART is the fact that they are making money off the backs of artists while the speed and quality of their servers indicates that not much cash is being cycled back into improving service. They keep half of anything you might make from something sold from their “store” using the artists work, and that is after they have already recovered their expenses. If I sell a print for $50 that costs them $10 to print, I get $20. They get $30. Ok, yeah, recover your costs. But why the heck should you get HALF of the value of MY WORK in PURE PROFIT? I don’t believe there are any other agents that would have the balls to ask for more than 25%. But then, maybe I am naïve. But that would go with the fact that I have never had an agent, I suppose. They aren’t really interested in making 10% of nothing.