There is a TV series on Netflix called Big Mouth. It's an animated series that's definitely catered to an adult audience. Raunchy humour, foul language, and obscene themes resonate through the show. Skirting the line between what's acceptable and what's not.
I just finished watching the second episode of the second season. [SPOILER for those who haven't seen it yet]. In it, Jessi and Missy, both aggravated that puberty is not yet set in for them, feel very self conscious about their pre-pubescent bodies. Missy's mother, in a hope to encourage them about body positivity, takes them both to a Korean ladies spa, where naturalism is encouraged. A song-and-dance routine ensues, and by the end of it, both Missy and Jessi are now more positive and accepting of their bodies. The episode also features full frontal nudity of both girls, albeit in brief amounts.
At first I thought nothing of it. It's an animates series targeting adults, and the content reflects that. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how significant that scene was. It featured two pre-pubescent girls fully naked, genitals exposed. If it were a live-action series, that would be illegal, but since it's animated artwork, that makes it okay.
I'm reminded of one of my favourite works of contemporary art, The Treachery of Images by Rene Magritte. It's a simple painting of a tobacco smoking pipe against a sea of yellow, with a caption written underneath, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," which is French for "This is not a pipe." The idea behind the image is that, despite its visual likeness with a real tobacco smoking pipe, it cannot serve the function of one, so one cannot correctly call it a pipe; instead, it must be referred to as an image of a pipe.
"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe', I'd have been lying!
— René Magritte
Moral busybodies in the furry fandom love to dump on cub art, saying it's the equivalent of child pornography. I don't think that argument has any merit. If it did, then the staff behind the production of Big Mouth could all, in theory, be producers of child pornography, and Netflix would potentially be distributors. Certainly, the subject is a touchy one, and many people certainly feel morally justified in their opposition to cub artwork, but after this argument, I don't think anyone sitting on the fence on the issue can do so anymore.
It wouldn't be a surprise that any of the producers of the series are actual pedophiles. For example, that weird episode of Total Drama Island Kids which involves a "fart fairy". The scenes showing kids farting and a creepy fairy dude smelling their farts with a horny face were extremly graphic, so it's very possible that one of the creators are into that kink. Anyways, I can't deny I'm a cub porn watcher, but in this case (Big Mouth) creators shouldn't be that graphic with child characters. There are more subtle ways to touch the topic of puberty, and it should be considered more if your main audience are adults...
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