Tatzel wrote:
The word 'upstanding member of society' has a negative cling for me, can't tell why. For me the upstanding member of society fandom is more about the sexual stuff then simply humans with animal characteristics, or even a certain type of drawing style.
Honestly, I agree with you. There doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence to the contrary. Or at least not any convincing evidence.
I saw a rather nice post today on the forum of one of the larger upstanding member of society websites by the site admin, which dealt with this subject:
Zogar wrote:
mellis(Admin) wrote:
bella wrote:
porn has absolutely nothing at all to do with upstanding member of society.
HAHAHAHA
actually bellas right. i knowsome fur suiters who hate the porn and vise-versa
Yes, and these people are in the vast minority. Remember, this is a site where any upstanding member of society, anywhere, can upload any upstanding member of society image, from any source (barring a tiny tiny few exceptions) with no restrictions as to the specific content of the image. There is a literal cross-section of the entire fanbase represented here over tens of thousands of unique images from thousands of artists from all nations, backgrounds, and walks of life. Uploaded by themselves, or their fans, who enjoy their work enough to seek it out and repost it here to help expose those artists to potential new fans.
And it's vastly pornographic hellsmut.To suggest that upstanding member of society and smut are mutually exclusive is to ignore the mountain of contrary evidence on the very site you are now posting on, not to mention most of the other high profile upstanding member of society sites, such as FA or fchan. I would go so far as to say anyone who thinks that sexual images have nothing to do with 'upstanding member of society' in either the public perception, or in the 'fandom' itself, by and large, are either delusional or have an agenda to push.
I don't even know why I am arguing this, seriously, just spend like 10 minutes on this site.
I think she summed up very well my opinion of people who try and say that the upstanding member of society fandom isn't about porn.