Submitted 3 weeks ago by curioscreativecat@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Yeah nsfw mostly refers to pornographic content and nsfl being gore etc.
Buuut 99% of the time nsfw refers to it all, any sensitive content. Suicide related, pornographic, gore, even drug related and so on. Anything a reasonable amount of people don’t wanna see.
I’d call it NSFW, but not pornographic. Are there any art communities that allow artful nudity?
Nudity would be considered inappropriate in most workplaces so that’s a good standard to hold up to.
There is a grey area for scientific/medical illustration, but usually this category of illustration removes most of the unnecessary details on genitals and stylizes the image in a way that makes your brain grasp better the anatomy, even if it’s not photorealistic. Usually you work out if an image belongs to this category by context, ie. you find it in a biology book, an encyclopedia, a healthcare pamphlet etc. When doctors or scientists need to document something with photographs ( which is often the case to supplement illustrations) they’re usually considered sensitive material if it’s on the genitals and they’re not as readily available to the general public. There’s often a content warning when things get that graphic.
If your work is leaning more towards photorealism then it may not fit that criteria, and would still be considered NSFW.
Yeah, if you had that on your screen at work and someone saw it, you’d likely get talked to by HR. It’s not a grey area. I’m not saying it’s raunchy or pornographic, it’s just not appropriate for a workplace, hence not safe for work.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it
I feel communities can be put in 3 categories.
Everything here is safe for work
Things here are not safe for work, e.g. adult communities. There might be a bit of safe for work, but anyone browsing it knows what to expect
The third is a combination. It might have a community rule that anything NSFW is tagged as such. With my browsing setup I have to click on NSFW posts to reveal them.
I’d have a look around for an art sharing community. I think theres one on world and they might allow NSFW content and people would be more likely to give you relevant feedback.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 weeks ago
This is a well-known issue. NSFW is colloquially used as a term to flag adult content, but that's not really what it's about. It means "not safe for work". So it's meant so you can safely browse and scroll through a feed at work, or on your phone while commuting in the train and there won't be any strange things showing up that make bystanders look at you.
Reading the news is considered safe. Pictures of dead people in a warzone are not safe for work. Naked people aren't safe to look at either. You wouldn't casually scroll through penis art while waiting for your colleagues to arrive to head out for lunch... So your art is NSFW.
(And on the other hand, if you're wrongly using NSFW to flag age restricted content, like many people do, it wouldn't be NSFW.)
Other than that, the lines are completely blurry. Some people mistake anime girls for porn and that'll get you unwanted attention. No one knows what kind of short dresses cross a line. And using NSFW for age restriction isn't the right thing to do in the first place. Learning about anatomy or asking questions regarding intimacy is a valid thing for minors to do and now they can't. The categories are completely subjective. And lumping together violence and mildly lewd things isn't useful.