Over the years the CEA Updates have often spoken about prohibited sexual themes. The one constant in our policies has always been the fact that we maintain a zero tolerance response to pornographic content whether it concerns photography, artwork, sexual roleplaying on dAmn, our chat network or any number of other situations.

Today I’d like to address a closely related subject which most often affects those photographers who choose to submit artistic nudes, fetish, or other genres of erotic photography; namely comments directed at their models which are clearly sexual in nature and which show a complete lack of respect for both the model and the photographer.

As we have never tolerated direct sexual harassment of our members we also have never tolerated this type of commentary directed at nude models and while it is more common for the photographer to bear the brunt of this type of disgusting remark than it is for the model to receive it that does not diminish the fact that it is not allowed.

The number of these comments being made has always been a small percentage overall but as our artistic community has grown so have the number of visitors treating the community as a wellspring of masturbatory material, leaving comments describing the sexual acts they would like to perform upon a nude model or otherwise commenting in a lewd and disrespectful manner.

Over the months we have observed that the number of these comments has increased ever so slightly and that many photographers, while outraged at receiving them, often do not realize that they can report the incident to the staff.

We’d like to remind all of our photographers and artists that you do not have to sit idly by and accept these comments as they are most definitely not tolerated by the administration and that you should immediately report the incident to the Help Desk and provide us with the name of the offender and a link to their comment.

This element is not welcome here in our community but we need your reports in order to identify and remove these disrespectful people so please do not hesitate to report any lewd or sexual comment which you personally receive or which you may observe during your daily browsing.

Working together we can rid ourselves of those people who have mistaken our artistic community for their local strip club.