Well there was a blog on Animevice from Red L.A.M.P. (Ethan). And if you're too lazy to actually read it, it said that people were adding a bunch of 'adult content' to the website and as such Google clasified the website as a porn site. I'm sure they want to avoid that for Comicvine and hence the enforced rules (plus the fact that it's a kid site).Animevice is seriously considered a porn site? Or was that before?
Is Adult Sex Comics Pornography?
These titles are included on the site because they're comics, and that's what this site is about. From my perspective, if I was a parent, I'd be grateful that I could log on and research any comic title; it would allow me to have educated conversations with my kid(s) about what I did and did not want them reading. Porn is out there, and not just on the internet; if a kid really wants to see it, he's going to find it, one way or another. It's prolific because because it plays on our biological reproductive drive, one of the most basic (and most natural) instincts we have. Rather than having roundtable discussions about how much exposed flesh is too much, maybe what we should all be doing is sitting down with our kids, talking to them, and listening to them. Find out what they're reading, find out what's popular with their crowd. Help them nurture a healthy perspective on sexuality, and teach them that, yes, there are some truly sick people in the world, and you'll find them everywhere, even in the comics industry. Prepare them for what they're going to have to deal with, educate them so that they can make educated choices. Trying to shelter them and keeping them ignorant about it is just setting them up to get blindsided by it later in life.
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