Alright peoples.

I understand that deviantart is primarily a glorified porn site. Get it. Got it. No problemo.

But what I can't handle is when people come along and add my work to a collection that is clearly just...porno. None of my models are naked (or, if they are they're hidden behind something large like a cello). None of my art is pornographic - unless you're a WEIRDO. So why is my shit getting faved and shoved into favorites categories that could be summarized fairly as "NAKED0RZ!!!1111!!1111!1" ???

I'm not saying I don't do my own fair share of porno collecting (see colections "because lesbians are awesome" and "hot naked men") but what I DON'T do is take someone's not naked (or at least not sexual or not romantically intimate) artwork and shove it in with my porno.

I find it disconcerting when my asexual pictures of a FRIEND OF MINE doing yoga find their way into a collection that is at least 50% close-ups of dicks and 45% dicks from afar.
Again, I have a collection dedicated entirely to beautiful women. But I also have a collection dedicated entirely to beautiful men. One has to categorize by subject. And I think that when one categorizes i such a way it leads one to deduce that such collections are not intended to be porno collections unless such distinction is GLARING. Usually, on Deviantart, the porno is pretty damn glaring. Personally, I also have a variety of collections dedicated to various inanimate objects like flowers, trees, pearls, and cute things (aka puppies, kitties, children, teddy bears and lizards) or to themes like "a little dark" and "fairy tales." My "M A fucking C" collection is all photos highlighting the joy of cosmetics, and "A la Mode" is photos that make me think of high fashion.

Consider my collection "pearls" which features a lot of tetas, not gonna lie. But the common bond here is "pearls." If you're asking yourself "why did my non-pornographic work land in a collection full of tetas?" the answer would be, "because it involves pearls." Fair enough, right?

What freaks me out, then, is when someone who has not clearly categorized (thus enabling me to deduce that they're not just collecting copious amounts of DA porn or that they're taking my work and sticking it in with naked people for some reason other than pornographability) takes something which I have made and do not consider remotely pornographic (like a face shot sans O face) and sticks it in his/her favorites, and then I check their favorites only to find I am staring at GIANT CAWKS EVERWHAR. Good Lord, people. Maybe they just really really really really like my photo. OK. Yay? It's still frightening. Imagine this: cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, vagina, cock, cock, cock, cock, butt, cock, cock, cock YOUR BEST FRIEND'S FACE HERE, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, tits.

See what I'm saying? I never ever ever want to see one of my friends smiling gayly (no pun intended) at me from a small hole nestled within a plethora of cocks.

It's making me self-conscious. Is there something subtly kinky or pornographic about my work? Am I somehow, unbeknownst to mysef, sexualizing my friends who trust me to do no such thing? Is there some sexual...well..."Deviant" living inside my subconscious somewhere? Because when I look at my work, I do not see sex. I see aesthetics, and beauty, and perhaps even people who are attractive and therefore potentially (objectively) desirable sexual partners in a PURELY THEORETICAL SENSE...but no porno.

SO WHY SO MUCH PORNO, INTARNETS?

To quote the Supreme Court in some case I read somewhere..."But there is also an enormous amount of pornography on the Internet." NO SHIT SCALIA.

Deviantart...is...so...weird.