What's the deal with Rule 34 material?

Pornographic images of various types existed long before the 50s. I'd not be surprised or shocked to learn that ancient cave drawings included some.

If you don't want to do that type of thing, then don't.

The "Venus of Hohle fels cave" is a female statue that was fabricated about 35040000 yers ago. So guys have been doing porn well into the past

"Are people doing this for their own personal entertainment and/or amusement and/or the entertainment and/or amusement of others?"
Yes
"Are they actually trying to give themselves and/or other people something to "get off" to?"
Yes
"Are they doing this for the sake of doing this, like for "shock value" or to get attention?"
Yes.

Personally, I don't seek this stuff out so I tend to avoid seeing sexually explicit fan fiction and fan art.

If you’re not interested in pornography why start a thread on it?

Perhaps because he’s holier than thou?!

Like the alcoholic who keeps telling people he doesn’t drink.

I was in Pompeii back in 1956...and visited the Naples museum during that visit. Two buddies and I bribed a guard to let us up to the Pompeii pornography area. It was off-limits at that time.

Great stuff!

Bethany Hughes does some wonderful documentaries about the classics. I think the Pompeii porn was blurred at the interesting bits.

Kok0pelli with phallus, near Embudo, New Mexico

What reasons other than the ones I listed are there to produce any Rule 34 material - cartoon stills, animations, comics, video games, etc.?

I know people do this because they want to "rape or ruin people's childhoods" but that probably falls under doing it for "shock value".

I think some people also do it for the sake of doing it. They do it to see if they can.

Do people do it because others try to pressure them to do it?

Please don't post any pornographic images.

I don't intentionally seek out any Rule 34 material online either. Do the people who produce this stuff not care about any minors seeing their stuff? It sure seems like they don't have qualms about it.

A classification I thought was hilarious is stick figure porn. Didn't know that existed until I caught my boy at about 12!

I was debating whether or not I wanted to tag this thread as "NSFW" but I didn't think people were actually going to post porn images in it.

To be clear:

I'm a born-again Christian. Please do not post porn images in my thread. I don't want to see them. Thank you.

Typically, any explicit material is marked as NSFW on the major sites (Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, DeviantArt, etc) and is usually filtered by default.

Same with search engines: Google and Bing both have safe search on by default and try filter out any offensive content.

I browse The DC Comics, Marvel, and ComicBooks subreddits on Reddit.com, and I very rarely see any unexpected sexual content.

Once more: If you do not want to create this sort of material, just don't.

See? It really is quite simple.

I haven't seen a case where an artist is pressured to create and post NSFW content online. Or at the very least, I haven't seen people admit they were pressured.

You already posted every possible reason for anyone to make rule 34 art. I can't give any other major reason.

That is even not a pornographic image. It is a cave drawing of a Native American fertility deity. It is nothing explicit.

The '50s porn I was referring to was porn of old Disney characters. There's probably porn of other old cartoon characters from the '50s.

There's probably cartoon porn made that's even older.

I remember when I was in grade school or middle school some boys were drawing Transformers porn. They didn't draw robots engaging in sexual acts, they were drawing robots having "discharges", which to me is/was disturbing and gay.

Transformers was a popular cartoon series from around that time.

When I was in high school I remember there was a boy drawing naughty pics of Cleo from The Catillac Cats.


I used to draw fan art of cartoon characters when I was in public school, from grade school to high school, and even in art college, but nothing I drew was pornographic or fringed on being pornographic.


This was before commercialized internet access came about.

Around the time I first started using the internet I discovered that artists were making porn out of a lot of old '80s and '90s TV cartoons and animated films. And out of some old Hollywood cartoons.

I wasn't intentionally looking this stuff up. I used to be a big cartoon nerd or geek I was searching for SFW stuff. I was also looking up indie cartoonists and animators. Eric Schwartz was one of the earliest online animators and cartoonists I learned about - the guy who created Amy the Squirrel and Sabrina the Skunk and other characters. He's an underground artist - I'm not going to go into his work.

When I was in art school I was working at a local supermarket. A young man I was working with knew I was going to school for animation and he knew I was influenced by Looney Tunes cartoons. He told me I should make "Looney sex". I looked at the boy like he was crazy and told him "no." He looked at me and said, "Then you must not be interested in making money."

I told the boy I was a Christian and that I'm not making cartoon porn.

I remember one time on my way to or from art school in NYC I was on a bus doodling in a sketchpad and I drew a male anthropomorphic cat standing around being surrounded by a bunch of sexy-looking female anthropomorphic cats. This was one of these things I drew to see if I could. I remember there were older ladies sitting around me and they looked at me disdainfully when they saw what I drew. They must have been Christians. I felt ashamed and I think I scrapped that drawing. A young college boy shouldn't be drawing stuff like that especially if he is a Christian.

I don't draw cartoon smut.