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Freedom

=3wyl:icon3wyl: reports, 13h 25m ago
What does Freedom mean to you?
23 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: ~01demai

The Etsy Wars-CNN examines Etsy

^kkart:iconkkart: reports, 1d 17h ago
CNN Money examines in depth the art site Etsy.com and the struggle it is currently facing to keep it's user base, fellow artist's like us on deviantART. It is a very interesting read, to say the least, and will surely raise a few eyebrows.

Gangs:No Peace Until There Is Peace In Our Streets

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, July 12
:star: Gangs in the United States are not a new or recent phenomenon. Their history has been traced back to the post Revolutionary War days and originally they formed as a means of self-protection and as social clubs.

Skills to Survive Life: Part One

=druideye:icondruideye: reports, July 11
Are you depressed? Do you feel like you are a failure? Do you feel empty inside? Do you sometimes end up harming yourself, or punishing yourself in some way? Do you find yourself unable to handle stress sometimes?

This might help. Give it a read, it might change your life. It changed mine.

deviantARTtimes Sunday July 12, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 12
Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.

"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"

=dwk61:icondwk61: reports, July 10
Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.

Grammar: I can haz?

~Selenedragon:iconSelenedragon: reports, July 9
We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.

DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL

=whitetrashpalace:iconwhitetrashpalace: reports, July 9
The Poverty Draft, Politics, Symbols, and the inconvenience of being human.

Even in times of war, the Soldier as an individual is of no consequence. The Soldier is a symbol, a simple pawn in a culture war. The Soldier is either a villain, or a Hero. The Soldier always serves for the honor of his country, not his paycheck. The Soldier is faithful, as there are 'no atheists in the trenches'. The Soldier is Combat Arms. The Soldier is male, he married a young white girl, and he has a baby on the way, whom he has never met.

The Soldier is a romantic ideal.

deviantARTtimes July 5th, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 5
Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.

To cheeseburger or not to cheeseburger

*Halohid:iconHalohid: reports, July 3
Body types in the world of internet modeling and how to respond with respect and compassion.

Editorials This Week

deviantARTtimes Sunday July 12, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 12
Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.

Grammar: I can haz?

~Selenedragon:iconSelenedragon: reports, July 9
We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.

DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL

=whitetrashpalace:iconwhitetrashpalace: reports, July 9
The Poverty Draft, Politics, Symbols, and the inconvenience of being human.

Even in times of war, the Soldier as an individual is of no consequence. The Soldier is a symbol, a simple pawn in a culture war. The Soldier is either a villain, or a Hero. The Soldier always serves for the honor of his country, not his paycheck. The Soldier is faithful, as there are 'no atheists in the trenches'. The Soldier is Combat Arms. The Soldier is male, he married a young white girl, and he has a baby on the way, whom he has never met.

The Soldier is a romantic ideal.

Skills to Survive Life: Part One

=druideye:icondruideye: reports, July 11
Are you depressed? Do you feel like you are a failure? Do you feel empty inside? Do you sometimes end up harming yourself, or punishing yourself in some way? Do you find yourself unable to handle stress sometimes?

This might help. Give it a read, it might change your life. It changed mine.

Freedom

=3wyl:icon3wyl: reports, 13h 25m ago
What does Freedom mean to you?
23 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: ~01demai

The Etsy Wars-CNN examines Etsy

^kkart:iconkkart: reports, 1d 17h ago
CNN Money examines in depth the art site Etsy.com and the struggle it is currently facing to keep it's user base, fellow artist's like us on deviantART. It is a very interesting read, to say the least, and will surely raise a few eyebrows.

"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"

=dwk61:icondwk61: reports, July 10
Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.

Gangs:No Peace Until There Is Peace In Our Streets

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, July 12
:star: Gangs in the United States are not a new or recent phenomenon. Their history has been traced back to the post Revolutionary War days and originally they formed as a means of self-protection and as social clubs.

Scientology ads on DA

=realta-eireann:iconrealta-eireann: reports, July 9
DeviantART is displaying Ads for Scientology - it needs to stop!

Quotes From the DA Politics Forum

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, July 11
[link] Official DA Political Forum

Each week the *DAPoliticalForum Club harvests a plethera of quotes we branded SKULL ChatterTM. We invite you to share in some of the humour of the DA Political Forum.

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Yes, there ARE erotic Male Nude images on DA......

*gr8shiva:icongr8shiva: reports, September 22, 2007
Yes, kiddies, Male Nudes are on DeviantArt, despite the odd penchant of Admin to delete-at-random should a penis appear even slightly erect! In fact, well endowed penises tend to get deleted as well. Why? I have asked the same question...and answered thus: 1. maybe not-so-well-endowed male "members" of Admin don't want the word to get out that penises exist in super-jumbo-gargantuan-erect-looking sizes. Gawd forbid the female tribe learn this!! -- or perhaps -- 2. If it is erect, he has to be "aroused" and thus makes it pornography. Oh please....folks, not ALL erections are sexual in nature. Men: speak up here! I for one wish to make it known that erect penis images are ART as well...and if the viewer judges their own reaction as "musta been porn, I got a woodie/wet spot..." - then who is to say? I, for one, do a lot of male nudes, very erotic stuff, not one hard-on (well, only one...hehe...they haven't discovered it yet...LOL!), and I do not in my wildest dreams think of MY ART AS PORNOGRAPHY!!!! NO WAY! It is art. It is the beauty I see in my husband's form. It is partially the way I love him, the way I MAKE LOVE TO HIM....

So: what do you think? Should erection imagery really be banned en masse on DA? And what's wrong with the viewer being aroused by viewing nudes, male or female? Sheesh -- we are HUMAN ANIMALS -- we have Gawd-given sex drives -- we respond to visual stimulation -- thank Gawd we respond! And HEY! What about women with HARD NIPPLES???? Huh? Does it mean they are sexually aroused if their nipples are erect? Talk about double standards here...

FOLKS: SEX is good. Showing erotic sensual images of human bodies is good. If the ARTIST creates an image that incorporates the nude form in ANY phase, who are we to judge it as right or wrong? (that is Art v. Porn)....

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*gr8shiva:icongr8shiva: Sep 22, 2007, 5:03:06 PM
COOL! My first thumbs down! I consider THAT a great compliment! Really...

So, thanks! :hug:

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~Satin-Chrysalis:iconSatin-Chrysalis: Sep 22, 2007, 5:13:34 PM
Bravo, sweetie! I agree completely! Where do I sign the petition?
~vincelador:iconvincelador: Sep 22, 2007, 7:04:51 PM
Just thought I should mention, none of those links there work... They all say 404 file could not be found. I guess one of our small-penised friends up at admin are cracking down on you.

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`timmy64:icontimmy64: Sep 22, 2007, 7:55:02 PM
Okay, first, admins do not go on "random" deletion sprees. They delete what deviations violate policy.

Second, I speak as a MALE when I say that erections are sexual in nature. Hard nipples can be caused do to cold. An erection can not.

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`Tepara:iconTepara: Sep 22, 2007, 8:00:27 PM
First "come look at the rest of my gallery" You arnt allowed to do that. You cant self promote your art in news :aww:

This is DA its Artists nude not semi porn.
I fully support Artists nude. If the model is "good" They wont be turned on at a photo-shoot. Artists nude does mean getting a boner. There should be more control in the photo-shoot.
It has been one of the rules since day one. You knew the rules when you joined and so did everyone else.
if you or anyone else didn't like them. Then why join!
Admin do not just delete them for the hell of it you know. They also don't just delete cause of a "slight" erection ..
You are reading into this far more then needed. Making something out of nothing.
The rules are there for a reason.
Like it or not. DA does not allowed "semi porn" shots. Like it or not that's how it is. If you don't like it. That's your problem no need to try and make it everyone else's problems.

And yeah you asked for those shots to be deleted by adding them in here..

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~WrongState:iconWrongState: Sep 22, 2007, 11:57:01 PM
I actually dont' think the world is ready to see the male nude in that manner yet, the whole debate over the differance between the aroused male versus female, well yes I agree there shouldn't be censorship as far as that is concerned, but DA thinks otherwise, yeah I've had a few photos pulled cause I looked to close to erect status or I was touching myself in a none sexual manner. BUT it seems okay for women to have things or fingers inside themselves. SO DA is biased, simply put.

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~WrongState:iconWrongState: Sep 23, 2007, 12:00:14 AM
THey do though, I've seen photos that clearly violate the TOA, and those that don't, and just randomly they'll delete if anyone says anything, I had one deleted cause my face was too close to the womans vagina, and I thought 4 inches was enough. but I've seen better photographers do photos and having their women spread wide open, fingers placed in areas that are sexual in nature, and have nothing happen to those photos.... so yeah random happens here, along with being biased

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`timmy64:icontimmy64: Sep 23, 2007, 12:02:04 AM
Each violation is investigated on a case by case basis. Remember they are investigated by different people at different times.

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I don't think anyone who has flower power nipples should speak for the common male. :evileye: ~CubePusher
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=Artheeria:iconArtheeria: Sep 23, 2007, 12:13:46 AM
I have to agree with you. There is a mature content filter, it's in use and it works. Why should the rest of us be "punished" so to speak because of a few people? Censorship, of any kind, I fiercely oppose.

No one can really classify porn or art to anyone but themselves. If they don't wanna see it, they don't have to look at it. Same with everything else. I think the admins are being too picky here. *shakes head*

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*NorwegianAngel:iconNorwegianAngel: Sep 23, 2007, 4:28:58 AM
the news are not for self promotion:roll:

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