One of my perennial problems in making comics, is the apparent age of any of the characters. In a coming-of-age story (which my comics are often about), getting close to that ‘first time’ feel, without crossing that boundary of “Hold on, this is depiction of under 18s” … is pretty difficult. How old are fictional 3D characters anyway?
And it doesn’t really matter how old you say a character is – if their apparent age, or implied age is fourteen, then you’re in dodgy territory in which you get hunted by the police. Personally I prefer to avoid that territory. So I try and spell it out …
And for some reason, the easiest way to make clear that a young woman’s over eighteen, is to simply stick a COLOSSAL great pair of tits on her …
… and then have them bounce around the place as if it’s completely normal and they’re used to them wobbling about …
… just completely regular …
… no big deal …
… and if someone happens to notice them …
… well, that’s their problem, isn’t it?
… as far as I can tell, the rule does seem to be that the bigger the boobs, the older their owner must therefore be. To be honest, I initially modeled Jilly [below] to be right on the edge of that ‘sexually active’ boundary …
… but sticking these massive great knockers on her, makes her seem an apparent … what … 22? Maybe even 32 years old in this image?
… and so with references to her youthfulness elsewhere, her ‘actual’ age is left up to the reader to decide … which is fine in terms of legality. But what if I’d wanted Jilly to be a bit more flat-chested? … frankly, a bit more realistic?! She’d immediately risk looking underage, I think.
It’s strange because the boobs=adult logic really doesn’t work in the real world because as we’re surely aware, girls can have huge great baps from the age of twelve or thirteen or whatever; but my issue is that great big melons kinda ruins the vibe if you want your comic to have that ‘first time’, sort of heart-beating teenage-experimentation feeling. Or if you just prefer to have characters with more realistic tits! It makes it really hard for me to make comics about those exciting first times … and keep them legal!
(Nb. I’m always working on a few …)
… because that angsty teenage wrangling is THE BEST!!! I noticed a comment on Tira Yugen’s Rather Magnificent comics online somewhere recently, where someone commented how amazing if it’d been Shotacon (ie. if Kal’s character had been a sort of mid-teens boy discovering their aunt in that way) … and I have to admit, I agree! It would’ve been really cool. I mean personally, I wouldn’t change it one bit …
… but a younger Kal might’ve been fun too. Hmm. What to do, eh? Anyone got any good ideas about how to get round this? Any lawyers know much about where courts might draw the line in what ‘apparent’ age really means?
Look, here’s the issue. Figure [A]: big boobs, innocent womanly sex scene:
No legal problem here. But then if I want her to be more realistic, and solely reduce the boobies a little …
Figure [B]:Â suddenly becomes this.
… dodgy territory, right? In fact by the time you read this blog, that image may have already been removed for breaching ToS, which would immediately demonstrate the point. Love them or hate them, I’m saying boobs do immediately change the whole vibe – which is a shame because if I’m depicting someone flat chested who’s 20-24 years old, it can still seem like I’m depicting something else. And I don’t particularly want to get arrested, when my actual intention is to create sexy AF comics about innocent, loving, wonderful, exciting relationships!
Tsss. I dunno what to do, what to do. Guess my legal protection would come down to how courts define apparent age. Maybe I should just move to Hungary permanently, where the law doesn’t give a damn, and I can just churn out sexy comics, and let the rest of the world filter what they want. OR perhaps I should never release any comics as Sindy Anna Jones, but just have burner accounts on other forums to release ambiguous comics … and then just use the SAJ persona to point them out? Might be a better option.
(Nb. my continued experiments with the free La Femme 2 model distributed by Renderosity are going pretty well. Turns out there are a few free [genital] morphs for her as well. So that’s nice.)
I mean this grey-area conundrum is the reason I always depicted Meg’s little brother from an angle that disguised his face, so it was kept ambiguous:
… but then, is depicting incestuous sex acts also illegal, no matter the implied age?? And if that’s the case then am I already screwed either way?! Uh-oh. Answers on a postcard. Or on a note baked into a cake, along with a metal saw and a few files 😬
(seriously, if anyone understands the law [in the UK], speak up; I wanna keep making sexy comics but I probably would prefer to avoid attracting the attention of the authorities …)
(am I gonna have to veer more towards the wholesome boring comics that everyone else makes, where two consenting, non-related adults meet and have sex? Surely not. I can’t even begin to imagine such a dull plot.)
In Hungary, someone who has sex with their sibling gets two years, someone who has sex with their child gets three years, and if they force it, they get two to eight years plus. With consent. 🙂
A woman’s age is reflected not only in the size of her breasts, but also in other changes in her body. Such as hip size, buttock size, skin color, pubic hair, wrinkles (especially on the neck and hands), so there is room to grow even without breasts. 🙂
But I like how you age women based on their breast size. I wonder how you would portray a woman in her 40s? 🙂
P.S. Karen is not worth mentioning, she was never ready for sex. 🙂
Yeah, I just mean in Hungary the law seems okay with ‘depiction’ of sex acts – so they really don’t give a damn about what your pr0n contains (I mean within limits; it’s just the age limit of depiction is lower than elsewhere, so I wouldn’t be creating comics in a grey area, I’d be safe, is what I’m saying)
Heh. When I was in the US Navy I had the typical sailor’s enthusiasm for T&A. This moderated somewhat as I eventually learned that people were more than the sum of their physical parts.
Then, at age 52, I started triathlon, and met many women who had “run their tits off” in pursuit of this cardio endurance sport that’s actually a lifestyle (to train in swim, bike and run). My own definitions of physical beauty changed, starting with flat-chested athletes, then including all body types that participated in this amazing sport.
Some women just dealt with it, and others got small implants to regain some curves, while a few tried to restore their former glory. In recent years, several women I know removed their implants, which they claimed (joked) was to reduce their weight to regain speed lost to aging!
The whole body-image thing is a common topic for conversation, mainly to share and gather perspectives, with the most common goal being to become OK with the changes.
So, older folks clearly have droopier boobs, and athletes have emptier boobs. Neither of which is standard porn comic fare. However, a character with smaller yet cute boobs (to which I have no objections whatsoever) could claim they had breast reduction surgery, or had implants removed, or were an endurance athlete who “worked their tits off”.
Cosmetic surgery is typically an “adult” thing, so little confusion there. And just saying tits were lost due to a decade or more of intense cardio (such as due to constantly having sex) should also imply an adult age.
BTW, Luce is way beyond hot. I know some triathletes in their 20s and early 30s who are as lean and strong as her, and they move like powerful poetry in motion.
I think another way to show maturity (18+) in females would be to make them hirsute in their genitalia & oxters. If you want them to be shaved then give their mound of venus a 5 o clock shadow. You could also play about with various pubic styles, have before & afters of them having trimmed, shaved or waxed.
You could even show the treatment happening. Including dialogue with these images of their trepidation at their first experience of the treatment, (something you’re great at with their virginity experience), will also show they’re older.
That is a tough one…
Seemingly, you are in the shitter either way. Unless you keep to a censored version of yourself.
I just don’t understand where we are heading.
The law has become so convoluted by now, it has become more easy to understand a bible (yes, a bible, not The Bible, making an effort to be inclusive here :O) ). And at one point that was the law.
Then there is the social-laws, the unwritten laws to what is acceptable to do in society.
We have issues with “triggers” these days, as soon someone has been triggered by something, there is a shit-storm possibly brewing depending what was triggered.
And “by the power invested in me! (and the unwritten laws/guidelines), you are hereby censored, or banned from doing this and that, on this and that. Now shoo, go away… I was butt-hurt by your art…”
As a devoted leg/bum man, I find women with smaller boobies fabulously attractive. It’s a shame you can’t model them fearlessly. The world is, indeed, a strange place.
I haven’t really seen any small boobs. I love small boobs. Especially when the have pronounced nipples. Either coat hangers or some nice puffies. Big boobs are nice too but small boobs are my favorites. That was the only thing wrong with Ix and Skylar. I love short petite women but their boobs were way too big for their bodies. I just remembered the blue girl from Grace. Great story btw. It didn’t even need dialogue. Her boobs were very nice but she could have used more nipples. The point is small is good too. Are you gonna give us some?
Nah
Well if small boobs implies youth then all those runway models and there elderly husbands are going to be done as Pedo’s
I think the boobs thing comes in when the 3D rendering eliminates wrinkles and sags and the basic imperfections a 30-year with however small bosom might have. That, plus the inevitable lack of pubic hair pretty much dooms the image to “WHOA CLOSE THAT TAB” and Bob’s yer uncle.
Frankly, as a cis het dude nearing 60 (“In my day real women had pubic hair, dammit!”), I’m pretty aggressively turned off by any images that seem a bit too young, so I welcome the curves — everywhere — that help say, “this’un is of legal age.”
Also, I’ve always been a sucker for large bosoms.