Cheshire Cat said:
This is kind of a follow-up to the reply I made to Celtic Emperor's artist discussion thread. I didn't know where else to post this and figured it would make most sense to put it here. Basically, how does it make you feel or what are your thoughts on the fact that there are no doubt a lot of people masterbating to your artwork? ROFLMAO!!
Many have thought it, I'm the first to come right out and say it!!!
I mean I have recieved one or two E-mails talking about how excited certain people have gotten with my art (one in particular was a bit TOO graphic) and it really does run through my head a lot. Something I've created provides sexual satisfaction for at least a few people out there...both flattering and unsettling at the same time...heh..I mean there is a definite sense of power there, but at the same time I think about the TYPE of people if effects...and become nauseated...
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::shrugs:: whatever...now you know why I have certain issues with showing my original characters in more adult situations...other than just having respect for my girls...😀
Actually, I believe I'm the one that came out and said it first. It was in one of GC'S threads, where I was replying to Tiger about his conflicting feelings about being here and about viewing the artwork. It was then myself who mentioned the masturbation part and how unsettling that would be to know that.
In any light, I'll repeat and in more detail than before.
The way I see it, people that would come to this community for the sole purpose of looking at tickling and fetish material are most likely doing so because they are attracted to it, and this may or may not have anything to do with the actual quality of the art or the skill of the artist him/herself. I've conducted tests, observations really, to see what hooks people and what doesn't.
From these observations, it is very evident that people here really go for foot licking, toe sucking, tickle torture as opposed to tickle teasing, and even genital tickling and/or nude tickling.
These are very sensual if not down right sexual themes to have in any artwork. Therefore its my observation there is a big likelyhood that people do masturbate or at least get sexually turned on by this type of material. Also add in the fact that this is an adult website catering to fetishes of the tickling kind. That makes the TMF and other places a focal point, a center of gravity for these like-minded people to wet their appetite.
Now, on to me.
As I said, to know that some or alot of people probably are masturbating to my artwork is both unsettling and uncomfortable and yet is quite possibly one of the upmost signs of respect, praise, and honor I could recieve (albeit a bit nasty) aside from verbal communication which is what each of us artists rely on primarily to both feed our esteem and get feedback/critques.
Personally, I do not create my artwork with the mindset to get people off. I do not create my artwork so it can be looked upon in a sexual way. I do not create my artwork the way I do so it can be misunderstood, manipulated or ill-concieved on their part.
Alas, all art is different things to different people, and the fact that I draw fetish material also is like putting a bulls-eye on my shirt and declaring open season. I am a magnet for those whose sexual satisfactions lie in seeing my artwork in such a way.
While it has never been my intent to seduce, use, or play off of someone else's emotions, feelings or desires, my art (the fetish stuff that is) does that for me regardless. Because of its very nature it caters to the minds of people that would look at it in a sexual way, or somehow need it to help manifest a fantasy of their own.
The big thing about art, which makes it unlike actual real pictures, is that anything goes. You can draw the impossible. You can draw what would otherwise not happen in reality. Thats why anime hentai exists. There are no limits, and it serves to cater and feed off the desires, dreams, and sick fantasies of young and old everywhere. The fact that it is japanese animation makes it a genre that trancends all age groups and caters to all.
I also mentioned how one artist in our community, who is reletively inactive, mentioned to me in private that he masturbates to his OWN artwork. The thought of that made me sick. First, his art wasn't that great, so his fantasies are probably really simple and don't ask much of his imagination. Second, the idea that someone would use any talent they had, a talent they had to develop at some juncture just to sexually satisfy themselves makes them a deviant in my eyes. Theres nothing wrong with possibly getting turned on by it, once you've stood back and look at a piece well done and well drawn, because that would only be natural, regardless of the fact that you yourself drew it. But to conciously masturbate to your own artwork when there are other reasons and things to masturbate over just makes it a very deviant act. Mainly because you are soiling and degrading yourself as an artist. Its like literally pissing on yourself and letting that make what drives you on to create more. Like thats your fuel, thats your passion.
I myself have recieved e-mails, PMs and instant messeges both congradulating me and thanking me for not only well drawn pictures, but for the excitement that the picture(s) gave them. And these messeges have been sent or recieved whether or not the person had requested something and was thanking me for it.
While I've yet for someone to openly tell me "I really loved your work man, it gave me a good orgasm", I doubt I ever will. Mostly because it would take guts and a total lack of self-respect to tell me that. Also, this brings up the negative aspect of all of this. And that is that it could make me feel cheap and used.
I'm sure its crossed all our minds, as it should. I sure as hell don't want to just be someone's lust and someone's tool to get off on. Its a total sign of disrespect to both me, my art, and to what degrees I express myself in my art. To whack it with a total disregard to the person who drew it, and a total surrenderance to indifference would make me feel cheap. Like I'm nothing more than a whore to them.
Just like women should be able to dress sexy but still be classy by nature, I should be able to draw this fetish material without having to worry about my art just being looked at like a piece of 'digital meat'. Its a lack of disprespect to me and my art, and whats sad about it is I can't do anything about it.
Surely, there are two extremes to which someone could masturbate to my art. There is the one that would do so with consideration to my feelings and my art, and take it to the extreme of masturbating to it, and then theres the extreme of not giving a damn who or what drew the picture, what the hell it looks like, what the hell the characters are, who they are, what the hell is going on, what the hell kind of feelings are going on in the picture, and to hell with the time, effort, and dedicationp put into it, and just jacking it like a complete deviant because they need their damn fix and they need it now!
While the idea of people masturbating to my art is uncomfortable regardless of which extreme is taken or used, needless to say it would be less offensive to me personally, and less disgraceful to do so in a more respectful and appriciative manner.
