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Shota: A Serious Journal Entry

Journal Entry: Tue May 13, 2008, 4:39 AM
Firstly, this isn't really meant to attack anyone specific, and certainly not anyone on my friends list (I don't think any of you guys do this kind of thing anyway).

What I wanted were people's opinions and thoughts on a so-called art form called "shota", which, as far as I'm concerned, is legitimized child pornography. I know that likely sounds a little harsh to many of you but essentially it's artists drawing sexual/pornographic pictures of young boys under the guise of cutsy anime. If you're unsure of what I'm talking about you can read the wikipedia article here: [link] . I won't link to any shota works on this site, or the artists who draw them, because I think that would be inviting drama, which is not my intention at all.
The thing is, there are many otherwise talented artists on this site whose galleries I have been turned off from due to content like this. People who know me and know my characters are probably aware that I'm no prude, and I don't mind sexual fetish art or homosexuality or incest, etc, etc, but I find that there's something profoundly disturbing about artists who post work of half-naked, underage boys having sex with each other and/or adults. It's as if labeling it shota, and therefore anime, makes it safe or harmless, and I think that's bullshit, personally. For instance, if I were to post a "shota" style drawing of one of my male characters as a child jerking off one of my older characters, claiming it was "hot" or "cute" and did it in my style or in a more realistic style I expect I would receive a LOT of angry and repulsed comments. Take the same picture and draw the characters with huge eyes, lots of shines and anime hair and you'd get a whole lot of comments like "kawaiii" and "omg they r so hott i luv them."
It's the same picture, but they anime style somehow makes artists feel as though they're not doing anything harmful, and that, to me, is kind of scary.
Now, drawing pictures of two kids innocently kissing, or something that has some meaning behind it or purpose is fine and dandy, and that's not what I'm criticizing at all. What I think is questionable are the pictures people upload that are quite obviously neither of those things.
ANYWAY. There's my two cents. Opinions? Comments?

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~garbages:icongarbages: 15 hours 1 minute ago
thank you for all the kind comments, and the favs!

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*xxsqueekbatxx:iconxxsqueekbatxx: 5 days 11 hours ago
np :3 actually I think I have so many people watched that DA bumps off half of the uploads- it happens to me constantly now. those pics were never in my watch so I was like OMGWTF MUST COMMENT NAO
~adventocld:iconadventocld: May 6, 2008, 4:22:59 AM
Thanks again for the watch!:)

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~Kwieskita:iconKwieskita: May 4, 2008, 2:16:23 PM
Thanks for the :+devwatch:!

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~mime:iconmime: Apr 18, 2008, 9:54:17 AM
I LOVE YOU I am alright I will respond to your note when I go over to Dave's and steal his internet tonight. <333 Not a lot of time this week but I miss you!

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~Midnight-Stock:iconMidnight-Stock: Apr 18, 2008, 9:48:18 AM
Thanks for the add! ^^
*Foux:iconFoux: Mar 29, 2008, 8:53:46 PM
Thank you ^__^

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~mime:iconmime: Mar 9, 2008, 3:41:55 PM
I LOVE YOU

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~mistressshinma:iconmistressshinma: Mar 5, 2008, 6:37:15 PM Mood: Lust
I am dead on DA but I will always looooove youuuuuu~

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!amyperticone:iconamyperticone: Mar 1, 2008, 4:18:35 AMFlagged as spam
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Wow! You really are a brilliant poet, aren't you?

Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ?


It's free and every nitwit such as myself who enters gets a small gift

but someone like you might win one of their $10 000 or $100 000 prizes.
~mime:iconmime: Feb 27, 2008, 7:01:04 PM
MAILED YOUR PACKAGE ON MONDAY I HOPE IT GETS THERE SOON! /caps.

<3333!

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~yaminokaze:iconyaminokaze: Feb 24, 2008, 6:12:19 PM
It's a lovely picture! The style is very elegant and fitting for the characters. Thanks for sending it my way. ^^

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~celtic-wand:iconceltic-wand: Feb 21, 2008, 3:25:19 PM
<3 the gallery! desuuu rorripop!! xx

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~rottingteeth:iconrottingteeth: Feb 19, 2008, 7:23:11 AM
hey, do you remember me? (paperdoll)

I'd love to talk with you again. :)
~yaminokaze:iconyaminokaze: Feb 2, 2008, 3:40:47 PM
AGH! DA ruined it! :(

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~yaminokaze:iconyaminokaze: Feb 2, 2008, 3:40:17 PM
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They're angel wings! I win at everything.

I was thinking I should invent a new flavour of tea, would you like to help?

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*xxsqueekbatxx:iconxxsqueekbatxx: Jan 31, 2008, 1:55:38 AM
:heart: I should be FINALLY taking your packages in this week! XD
~fetal-castro:iconfetal-castro: Jan 22, 2008, 2:28:58 PM
thanks for visiting my page :)
~Bossnis:iconBossnis: Jan 10, 2008, 7:49:17 PM
thank you for the add.
~QueenIsis-Blu:iconQueenIsis-Blu: Jan 5, 2008, 4:56:23 AM Mood: Adoration
thank you for the watch
~haemophiliaque:iconhaemophiliaque: Dec 28, 2007, 11:20:44 PM
know me as in,..person? O:
~Shnails:iconShnails: Dec 28, 2007, 6:29:38 PM
I ammm mailing you things tomorrow. HURR!!
PS. Hope your Christmas was happy.
~haemophiliaque:iconhaemophiliaque: Dec 25, 2007, 9:10:46 PM
i love your art - esp the squeeky bat pic. i like russia too!! ahh!
~mime:iconmime: Dec 16, 2007, 10:52:16 PM
pssst posted some character journals for yooou ;o

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