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ratcreature) wrote2006-01-26 10:29 pm
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a labelling question
Do you consider stories or art in which a character masturbates without it being clear what/who the object of their fantasy is gen? I don't see this happening very often in stories, but I've been tagging art for the LJ fanart listing for a while now, and try to tag art as gen, het, slash and/or femslash, but I never quite know what to do with (solitary) masturbation pictures.
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I wonder whether for practical reasons I just ought to tag them "masturbation" in addition to the character name to make clear from the tags that there's sexual content, not just nudity, because I use the "nws" tag also for pictures of a character that have nudity without explicit sexual acts or gear (like toys or restraints or whatever), though I tag those as "gen" unless they're more suggestive than regular nude poses in art are.
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Maybe you could tag them Gen(Adult content) or Gen(nws) ?
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I don't quite get that, because for me neither things like my Nightwing/Arsenal picture where all you see is them nude, cuddling and kissing in bed (but with no visible genitals nor explicitly sexual positions), nor artistic full nudity without sexual content really warrants any kind of warning, that is in my mind and for rating standards here both aren't problematic even for younger children, and I don't see how it is more inappropriate to view in the workplace than any other fanart. But since I label for other people I use NWS that way too.
With slash and het pictures labelled NWS it's quite safe to assume that it means there's sexual content, but with pictures when I see the label "gen, NWS" without any other hint of the content I assume it's just a regular nude portrait not porn. And somehow I'd like to make the pornier subset visible in tags, because for example to me a graphic picture of Sirius masturbating with a focus on his genitals feels very different from a picture showing just a naked Sirius in a classical portrait pose draped on a divan or something like that.
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I'm pretty sure, though, most fannish people using your links would figure that in most cases you're using "adult content" to indicate sex. But you have a good point, even movies these days (under the MPAA system) will say "Rated R for violence, language" or "Rated R for sexual content" or "Rated R for disturbing themes." So maybe you could add different tags: (NWS: nudity) (NWS: sexual themes) ? Or something like that.
I don't quite get that, because for me neither things like my Nightwing/Arsenal picture where all you see is them nude, cuddling and kissing in bed (but with no visible genitals nor explicitly sexual positions), nor artistic full nudity without sexual content really warrants any kind of warning, that is in my mind and for rating standards here both aren't problematic even for younger children, and I don't see how it is more inappropriate to view in the workplace than any other fanart.
Must be an American thing. *G*