So all images of naked people in illustrated stories are redacted now? oh MY FUCKING CHRIST

[nice90sguy]

 

[nice90sguy]

Note, that almost none of my pictures had sex organs visible, So basiclly theyre banning tits and ass.

 

[djrip]

What's even the point of an illustrated category now then?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

If it makes you feel any better, the only submission I had in the Erotic Art category was archived and is no longer available online. The funny part is that the "erotic art" in question was a map of my fantasy world.

This is what they banned



I don't know, maybe it's because those hills look like tits, or because the main continent looks vaguely like Australia, and we know how obscene Australians are.

 

[AwkwardMD]

I think we can all agree that this is a drinking situation

 

[gunhilltrain]

Note, that almost none of my pictures had sex organs visible, So basiclly theyre banning tits and ass.

We live in a very strange time when "everything erotic is okay" and yet it's not. The avatar kerfuffle is a good example. No one knows what the rules are and yet it seems people make up their own. Sometimes it's to please advertisers, sometimes it's fear of the "authorities" (depends on the country, to some degree), some of it seems like pure pearl-clutching.

I realize that online we can't go full Jeffrey Epstein. Yet I have seen things on sites that go pretty far beyond what I even I can take. The servers may be in Serbia or Nigeria for all I know. Some sites publish a U.S. Federal Code "seal of approval."

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-federal-law-obscenity

How does one interpret that thing? The famous statement from Miller v. California (1973): "Whether a reasonable person finds that the matter, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." I guess that let's Lit off the hook, although frankly I've met few "reasonable" people in my life.

"Any material that satisfies this three-pronged [Miller] test may be found obscene." So are threesomes okay or not?

 

[nice90sguy]

If it makes you feel any better, the only submission I had in the Erotic Art category was archived and is no longer available online. The funny part is that the "erotic art" in question was a map of my fantasy world.

This is what they banned



I don't know, maybe it's because those hills look like tits, or because the main continent looks vaguely like Australia, and we know how obscene Australians are.

No, but when I tried to make a map with ChatGPT it looked just like that, down to the font. Maybe lit has really good AI art detectors

 

[nice90sguy]

I think we can all agree that this is a drinking situation

That doesnt really narrow it down much

 

[gunhilltrain]

I think we can all agree that this is a drinking situation

Or pot-smoking. That must be legal now, because one can buy it on Allerton Avenue. Well, until the store closed. Ran afoul of the tax laws? No one is sure of the drug laws either.

 

[gunhilltrain]

If it makes you feel any better, the only submission I had in the Erotic Art category was archived and is no longer available online. The funny part is that the "erotic art" in question was a map of my fantasy world.

This is what they banned



I don't know, maybe it's because those hills look like tits, or because the main continent looks vaguely like Australia, and we know how obscene Australians are.

Looks like Randalls Island at the top, Wards Island at the bottom, and Rikers Island to the east. Do really pious people call Hell Gate "Heck Gate?"

 

[AwkwardlySet]

No, but when I tried to make a map with ChatGPT it looked just like that, down to the font. Maybe lit has really good AI art detectors

It was archived only recently, and not due to AI or anything, but because of the new no-nudity policy. I made the map myself, by the way, using an online map-making tool. Nothing was generated; I had to place and shape every landmass, hill, tree, and city you see on that map.

This is the tool I used (I think) https://inkarnate.com/
I made that map like two years ago, so I can't be sure. I am certain that the tool I linked had far fewer options at the time

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I think we can all agree that this is a drinking situation

:: hic ::

 

[PapaRomantic]

Is it possible that they disappeared like so many people's avatars have done?

 

[nice90sguy]

FYI
This is a removed picture: Disgusting and perverted, eh?

View attachment 2557144

 

[nice90sguy]

This move by literotica is probably the most puzzling one of all. Has there been any explanation of it? presumably its some shitty compliance thing due to some new law around porn? I wonder if making the mages only available if you're logged as with an age-verified user would work (as they do on other porn sites)

 

[PennyThompson]

This has been discussed pretty extensively in the Visual Arts forum since the policy change happened in June. The consensus seems to be that Literotica has decided to try and avoid getting caught up in the Age Verification for Porn requirements gaining steam globally, and focus the site back to non-visual content.

I would probably stop participating on Lit if I had to upload my personal information, and I also imagine that the age verification systems being developed are not cheap.

It sucks for people that have invested a lot of time and creative energy into making art for their stories, and philosophically it's a distressing trend, but I can understand why the decision was made

 

[PapaRomantic]

FYI
This is a removed picture: Disgusting and perverted, eh?

View attachment 2557144

Seems ironic that this image has already been removed. I know Lit much prefers pictures be submitted as links and not as attachments.

 

[onehitwanda]

I would probably stop participating on Lit if I had to upload my personal information, and I also imagine that the age verification systems being developed are not cheap.

The day I can no longer be moderately anonymous here is the day i log out for good

 

[Bamagan]

The day I can no longer be moderately anonymous here is the day i log out for good

Yeah, when multi-billion dollar tech companies and federal agencies can't avoid data breaches, what hope do porn and porn-adjacent sites have of maintaining the integrity of their databases? Cynically, of course, the lack of security is probably the point of the exercise, or at least a happy side effect.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

That doesnt really narrow it down much

No, but it's a darned good start!

 

[lilshymynx]

I think we can all agree that this is a drinking situation

Good thing I'm home from work and can!

Lagavulin 16 anyone?

Edited cause I'm a dumbass and forgot the my 18yo scotch is Bowmore, not Lagavulin

 

[Ciceri]

Yep. All we’ll have are dead links

 

[ElectricBlue]

Note, that almost none of my pictures had sex organs visible, So basiclly theyre banning tits and ass.

Keep up. This has been happening for at least two months now: the site is progressively redacting all visual content depicting nudity. There are several threads in the Visual Artists' Corner and the Technical Forum that cover what's going on.

 

[ElectricBlue]

This move by literotica is probably the most puzzling one of all. Has there been any explanation of it? presumably its some shitty compliance thing due to some new law around porn? I wonder if making the mages only available if you're logged as with an age-verified user would work (as they do on other porn sites)

Yes, there has. See previous post.

 

[Katie_Mae]

This move by literotica is probably the most puzzling one of all. Has there been any explanation of it? presumably its some shitty compliance thing due to some new law around porn? I wonder if making the mages only available if you're logged as with an age-verified user would work (as they do on other porn sites)

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...-publishing-queue-nudity-policy-more.1632509/
If you're interested, the initial announcement was here, though there's general consensus that the explanation given at the time was not the driving factor. I think elsewhere the site has acknowledged this.

Given all the stuff going on in the US and other countries its understandable why the site might want to take this path, but it's all very disappointing.