Adult Content Category

Sfariah D

drafter69_696b99e42b said:

barcgwcc said:

Let's face it, at least 30% of DAZ users are using it to make adult content.  The most frequent threads are about gen issues.  The biggest issue artists whine about is the lack of gen material available at a reasonable cost from DAZ.  Why not just create a category for Adult Content. This category could contain how-to threads, suggestions, faqs and provide a place for artists to go and get help without worrying about offending someone or slogging through dozens of threads before finally getting to something helpful.

Just a suggestion.

You're joking???? A company who can't even use the word "genitals" is going to have an adult content section??????    You want Renderotica

 

I prefer the term anatomical elements as long as I do not say atomical elements. We need some great atomical elements for scientific reasons such as school scenes.

twitch99

I do look at whether anatomical elements are included with any figures I buy and many times it does impact my purchasing decisions

chris-2599934

cwlcak_994ef1dab6 said:

I don't think the OP was saying create an adult content store or open up the forums to posting adult work.  I read it to be more of a help/faq/tips thread that is a sticky.  He/she didn't mention the store.  Could be wrong tho (in which case, I wouldn't be for that either).

I'd rather not have an adult content thread in the forum, especially if it's sticky.

Ewww.

Rashad Carter

These days for better or for worse, we tend to seek any means to avoid offending other people, even if that means never telling them the truth. Fact is, lots of people would find such nudity offensive, no matter how tactfully presented or isolated. Those are the people who seem to be putting the breaks on such ideas right now. Because the notion of an Adult Section at Daz is not a new question by a long stretch. Clearly up to this point the choice has been repeatedly made NOT to include any Adult Content Specific pages onto the site. There must be some specific set of reasons for that. Until you know what that or those reasons are, you'll stand little chance of changing their minds.

You won't know why unless you ask them. You'll have to send them an email or something tos ee if you can get them to comment.

And then there's the reality. Why bother getting worked up anyhow? Why even start a thread about it? It seem intuitive to assume that one would gain support for an idea by voicing it in the forums. Sometimes this does happen, but not always. If you want change, the forums are not the ideal place to bring it about. From years of experience around here I can say ardently that it doesn't matter what anyone requests in the forums, it's never going to happen because "they" don't read the forums. Nothing substiantive ever comes out of threads and subsequent posts made in the forum. Direct communication seems to work best. So it's ultimately no harm in imagining all kinds of additional sections to the website, no matter how ill conceived, unnecessary, or well intended.

Sure, an Adult Section. Why not?

I also wish they'd go further with medical stuff. I wish there was a Medical Content section where I could find amazingly detailed human tissue models of all parts of the body. We have the guts from the Generation 4 figures, but wouldn't it be nice if we had them for all figures? And much much more of that? It'd be cool to see someone sculpt a full body nervous system or a circulatory system, that could morph and move with the character. Could even manage to present a few bits and pieces from the reproductive tissues list without enlisting the ire of the internet search engines.

There are respectful ways to explore some of these Adult themes. But coming out and calling them "adult" will cheapen the experience for some people.

Best of luck.

outrider42

nonesuch00 said:

outrider42 said:

nonesuch00 said:

outrider42 said:

j cade said:

PedroC said:

XoechZ said:

Well, the DAZ site is kind of funny - at least for me as a European.

In the store and the gallery we meet all kinds of violence. There are deadly weapons, armours, all kinds of creatures, monsters and demons. We can even buy pruducts to drench our characters in blood and slime. But a bare nipple? Oh my god, we cannot do that. That´s not family friendly!?!

. Sometimes i think N.American people see European's museums full of porn. Maybe the solution could be a default ative filter to block nude images, and let people decide deactivate it or not.

 

Uhh... you do know there are museums just like the "European" museums in the US too right?

This is true, there is one in Las Vegas (go figure.) But how many are located in the Bible Belt?

There are plenty of museums in the Bible Belt and more all the time. It's not like most of the content in the museums and the Bible are talking about different things after all. ​

I'd like to see some examples, because I can't find any using Google. I found the Kentucky Creation Museum, though. Maybe I'm not using the best key words.

It's not enough to type something into google to find what you are looking for, all sorts of museums and at the least, sophistated culture exists in rural areas worldwide, even absent the Guggenheim or the NYC Metropolitan.

Amon Carter museum for one. Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. Speed Museum at the University of Lousiville. Headley-Whitley Art Museum, The Art Museum of the University of Kentucky. Fred Parker Gile Gallery at Eastern Kentucky University, and the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, KY for another, my father, grandfathers, and uncles all worked those coal mines to heat the Guggenheim and such places I'm glad I never had to.

Also there is a very well-known college called Berea College that is free to attend and teached traditional folk art and crafts to their students.

That's only a short list of museums.

Are any of these specifically catered to adult content? I'm not disputing art museums existence in these places, they are everywhere. But Las Vegas has a museum focused entirely on erotic history. Are you going to find an equivalent place in the "Bible Belt?" Or a similar adult subject, like brothels? There are brothel museums in Nevada and...Montana. Specifically adult in content...that is what I am talking about. Not the occasional display of an adult piece in a corner of the museum away from the high traffic areas.

The following is Outrider's own opinion, not to be confused with any statements by Daz...

Daz can do what they want. But I find it highly hypocritical the way the act on the subject. You can't have nudity, but then there are all these products with "sexy" content. Type in "sexy" in the store search, and see how many items pop up. Its a very popular key word. Somebody's selling some sexy content here. Like a lot. So in spite of their insistence on political correctness, it still isn't a site I would be entirely comfortable allowing a kid to wonder around in, either.

Be honest, would you let your young kid wonder freely in the Daz store? There are certainly worse things out there, but Daz has some pretty crazy stuff in its store. And I don't mind that at all! I just want Daz to honest with itself about what they are selling here half the time. Even after the creation of Daz, people still use the term "Poser Art" with that negative connotation of a scantly clad chick wielding a sword. And they do so for a reason. And sometimes this is part of their own promo art, LOL.

And look at all the RDNA content that was brought over, which had many of their promo images removed because they didn't fit this store's policy. And people complained and feared what would happen to RDNA content in this store. There are so many RDNA items that only have a single promo image, its kind of hard to judge what you are buying on these items. Its a shame they wont let anybody add their own galleries or reviews for these vague items. But that's another argument for another day...

Daywalker Designs

Unsupervised? Probably not, but then I wouldn't let them wander unsupervised on Walmart.com either.

Havos

The hypocrisy is by society in general, and DAZ has to follow that hypocrisy to conform to community "norms". Lots of violence etc barely raises an eyebrow in many areas of the media, but a flashed nipple creates a huge storm of controversy (and a record fine for the broadcaster I believe). Many family sites and tv shows will sex up their content if they feel it will gain them popularity, but they have to stick rigidly to those norms, or which nudity (ie: the lack of it) is the most important.

So I do not blame DAZ for doing things as they are, society set the rules, and they, along with the rest of us, just follow them.