I don't really understand how authors can be against it. I get that it's their world, their children they've created of sorts, but shouldn't they love the fact that their fans love their characters so much, that they'd want to write them? Draw them? If I was an author, I'd feel privileged.
But like, minors can still download these erotica books, you know? No one can stop them. And as you said, fandom just makes it more accessible. However, that doesn't mean that erotica published fiction isn't as accessible. If there was no fandom, minors would still go looking for it somewhere else. Especially these days, I find teenagers are so in tuned with adult content and how to find it.
And I admit, when I was under eighteen, I still found ways to find it. If I couldn't find it, I pretended to be older, because over the internet, no one would know how old a person is and I could get away with it. These is no way that people can hide it from minors, no matter how hard they try, so I don't see how it's an author's fault or an artist's fault.
a lot of my fests and most certainly my journal contains explicit adult content... but what happens when I have a fest like the fanart fest currently that contains adult content but is not all adult content.
Should minors be allowed to participate? There will be adult content but it will all be behind a cut/warning...
Is that enough?
I just don't have the answer to these questions...
I really don't know how to answer this question. I would love to say "yeah, it's fine" because to me, it is fine. The adult content is under a warning label, but I don't necessarily think the law system will find that okay. Or at least, here in Australia they wouldn't I don't think. They are really, really tough here with every law they put down, but child pornography is one of the toughest, which I understand completely because I'm against it. However they consider children under the age of eighteen, which I don't necessarily agree with that age in the terms of being allowed to read/view adult content (because come on, if heterosexual couples are allowed to have sex at 16, how is it fair for them not being allowed to access sexual content? So they view them old enough to DO it, but not old enough to READ about it or WATCH it?). Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of keeping teenagers as safe and as innocent as possible, but these days, it's not going to happen. They know too much already.
In the end, even if the community was fully adults only, you're not going to stop minors from PRETENDING to be adults just to read it/view it. You've done what you can to indicate the adults only section and it shouldn't be your responsibility if they follow it or not.
It's a due diligence thing, isn't it? All you can do on the internet is go by the age statements and warnings; there's no way to know for sure who's on the other end of the mouse click, so all you can do is be clear that there is adult content not deemed legally suitable for minors.
But like, minors can still download these erotica books, you know? No one can stop them. And as you said, fandom just makes it more accessible. However, that doesn't mean that erotica published fiction isn't as accessible. If there was no fandom, minors would still go looking for it somewhere else. Especially these days, I find teenagers are so in tuned with adult content and how to find it.
And I admit, when I was under eighteen, I still found ways to find it. If I couldn't find it, I pretended to be older, because over the internet, no one would know how old a person is and I could get away with it. These is no way that people can hide it from minors, no matter how hard they try, so I don't see how it's an author's fault or an artist's fault.
LOL. That would be my argument XD
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a lot of my fests and most certainly my journal contains explicit adult content... but what happens when I have a fest like the fanart fest currently that contains adult content but is not all adult content.
Should minors be allowed to participate? There will be adult content but it will all be behind a cut/warning...
Is that enough?
I just don't have the answer to these questions...
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In the end, even if the community was fully adults only, you're not going to stop minors from PRETENDING to be adults just to read it/view it. You've done what you can to indicate the adults only section and it shouldn't be your responsibility if they follow it or not.
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