If you don’t want your characters to be looked at in a sexual manner, don’t sexualise them – and displays of cleavage is a sexualised image.
If body parts are on display, we’re going to look. Less slutty, sure, but sexualised none the less. In reality it is no different to Lollipop Chainsaw’s Juliet showing her booty every 2 minutes. She was wearing a very nice, charming dress that just happened to expose her cleavage and the entire outline of her bosom. He didn’t say that was in a particularly slutty manner, but they’re on display none the less. His point is that Elizabeths cleavage is entirely on show. So yeah, no duh there’s ‘popular fictional character’ porn. The same sort of painted style that you might be familiar depicting Rosie the Riveter was also used to illustrate pornographic materials of the day.Īnd honestly, if the depiction is realistic enough to fool the peen, there’s precious little difference between perving on a toon and perving on a pornstar who for all intents and purposes is just as fictional as far as you and your tactile senses are concerned. And not just any porn, there was some freaky-ass octopi/fisherman’s wife tentacle porn up ins. You might know Hokusai from his prolific and evocative ‘The Great Wave’ print (look it up, I’ll be surprised if you don’t instantly recognize it even if you don’t know the name), but you know how he made his bread and butter? Porn. Early on there were paintings and woodcuts on the printing press. Same goes for folks scoffing at fictional depictions. Teachers taking advantage of students, cops accepting sexual favours in exchange for leniency, doctors or nurses as caregivers in positions of responsibility…Īnd yet, role-playing fantasy has made open, widely-accepted use of these abuses of power for at least as long as we’ve had pornographic media.
To be fair, taboos have always been a big sexual turn-on.įor example: we think of abuse of power as one of the worst crimes someone can commit.