Anonymous asked: Ambris, now that you've gone and drawn that nude version of the latest height chart, do you worry that perhaps you've given a bunch of pedophiles fresh fap material? I can't help but be wary of anything that comes close to sexualizing a minor. (There's a reason why such content has to go to shady places like Inkbunny and Derpibooru, after all.)
Oh boy.
(Just a note to Ambris: If you don’t feel like talking about it, that’s fine. But I’ll be talking about it, so you don’t need to respond if you don’t feel like it.)
I’d like to point out that, while I personally think foalcon/lolicon/shotacon is “slightly pedophilic,” I won’t consider everyone who’s into that sort of stuff a pedophile.
With that being said, though, I have to agree with Anonymous. Based on this post it seems the chart includes the Cutie Mark Crusaders (which I would’ve guessed), who are underage. So actually, even if foalcon isn’t the same as pedophilia, this would still have “given a bunch of pedophiles fresh fap material.”
Anonymous also correctly points out that Tumblr does not allow such content, which is why it must be moved to such sites as, indeed, Inkbunny and Derpibooru. (By the way, I don’t think those sites are “shady” as Anonymous put it, but rather “less restrictive.”)
I’ll discuss my views on foalcon/lolicon/shotacon more broadly in another post. Right now I’m only addressing Anonymous’s points here.
I actually do feel like talking about it now. Your point is fair. And I appreciate your tolerance. The bit that I like to see the most is
I can’t even answer that because you jump to the conclusion that foalcon = pedophilia.
Yeah, this isn’t something I feel like talking about.
“I’d like to point out that, while I personally think foalcon/lolicon/shotacon is “slightly pedophilic,” I won’t consider everyone who’s into that sort of stuff a pedophile.”
And that’s exactly right. Those who are into those fetishes ARE NOT PEDOPHILES. I understand that there definitely is an overlap between pedophiles and foalcon fans (foalconists?), but no more of an overlap than compared to porn fans and serial rapists.
As such, I take no responsibility for pedophiles that may fap to my stuff anymore than I take responsibility to rapists who also look at my porn.
Yes, I draw foalcon. But never will I never condone pedophilia in any sense. In my book pedophilia is the rape or sexual exploitation of real life children. Even with “consenting” children, it counts as rape because children do not understand the consequences of sex. And the adult should know better than to take advantage of the child. An adult who does take advantage of such a situation is the fucking scum of the earth, and probably deserves to be eradicated, or at least their genitals lopped off.
On that note, to bring this into a context that my followers can relate to: the act of calling a lolicon/shotacon/foalcon fan a pedophile is like calling a clopper a zoophile; They are not the same thing. It’s also like calling a porn fan a serial rapist.
Just because someone faps to something, does not mean they will go out and force sex upon the nearest real world equivalent. I may draw some odd fetishes, but damn it, I have some moral standards that I would also expect anyone intending to be decent human being should have to.
I think it comes down to this, with which I both agree and disagree in different ways:
“Just because someone faps to something, does not mean they will go out and force sex upon the nearest real world equivalent.”
I’m not a psychologist, but I suppose that’s true. Even with realistic depictions of fictional children, I don’t think that’s outright pedophilia, just as clop and yiff are not outright zoophilia.
(Okay, in my discussion related to Down with Molestia I agreed with people who pointed out that rape jokes are correlated with actual rape, but I note that, even so, rape jokes are not to blame.)
However, my personal philosophy is that porn should not be enjoyed if the sex acts are wrong/illegal in real life. So I will not get off to fictional depictions of rape, sex with underaged individuals (this includes lolicon, shotacon, and foalcon), etc. But that’s just me. Though I am quite opposed to this sort of content, I am fine with others enjoying it.
Wait, sex with ponies and furries? That’s okay in real life? Yes, I believe so, actually. These individuals have human-like intelligence, so I believe they can be treated as consenting adults.
TL;DR: I think this sort of stuff is “wrong” on a personal level, but I think it’s okay for others to enjoy it.