While it's true that my primary reason for not being on DA as religiously as I used to is because of the awful past two years I've had in the fields of financial and employment misfortune, there is another outstanding reason that sickens me every time I see it, and the more of it I see, the less faith in humanity I have for users on here.

DA constantly gets away with photos of girls sucking cock that are marked as "artistic nude", and deviants are always sneaking shit under the radar that way. Then, when someone comments on it and goes "this isn't art, this is porn", you have all these artsy-fartsy types going "omfg you uncultured buffoon this too is art omg it's so DEEP".

And if it's not some idiot slapping a porn picture up with jack shit for a description and ten dozen tags all consisting of "cu*t" or *pu**y", it's half a million pictures of chicks with huge boobs. A friend of mine here once came across a stock photo ghallery here that consisted ENTIRELY of girls masturbating. On top of that, despite the fact that all of these photos had pretty poor quality, they each had hundreds of favorites to their name.

Because, you know, girls touching themselves? SOOOOOO DEEP, MAAAAAN.

Now, before I get a bunch of asstards pointing at me and going "yeah, like your animay and vidya game fanart is SOOO much better than these photos, you stupid weeaboo", no, I'm not saying it is! DA is also overrun by a lot of shitty anime and video game fanart, and mine are pretty average, too. However, that doesn't disqualify me from being able to at least provide my two cents on what I think is a blurry line between art and offensive material.

Depending on what your political stance is, whether you view offensive art as "bold" or "offensive" is a horse of an entirely different color. After all, when I took Art History classes in college, there was a three-page essay in the last chapter of our textbook dedicated entirely to an essay entitled "Why Controversial Art is Necessary", and listed the infamous works of Chris Ofili and the student of the Chicago School of the Art Institute as textbook examples, if you'll excuse the pun (the former drew a picture of the Virgin Mary with pictures of female genitalia cut and pasted all over it, and the latter painted a picture of Chicago's former mayor wearing women's negligee).

Now the next thing I'm going to get are accusations of being a "neo-con", "redneck" or "Jesus warrior". None of these are true; as a libertarian independent that has views on both side of the fence that divides right and left, I always enjoy taking a look at both sides of the issue before I decide which one I personally find favor with. I do believe that my country in particular definitely needs an enema when it comes to being as accepting of sexual themes and alternative lifestyles as, say, most European nations (and maybe even our neighbor to the north, Canada), but that doesn't mean we can go shoving porn in everyone's faces, either.

In short? Yes, I WOULD rather look at a picture of a smiling unicorn with fluffy dandelions and a rainbow rather than a close-up of some girl I don't even know with two of her fingers shoved up there.

Bring on the hippies.