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What adult art is not by SF
Adult art is not -
- inferior
- effortless
- degrading
- selling out
- the only reason there are artists more popular than you
- fringe
- anything but a genre
- perverse
- instant popularity
- in the majority
- a convenient villain to project your insecurities onto
- not art
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I'd argue that it's not a "sex sells" phenomenon so much as one of common interests.
People are always going to be more forgiving of the quality of works containing subject matter they already enjoy. Pick any sub-fandom for any intellectual property and you'll find people more likely to click/favourite relevant works at a lower threshold of quality than for subjects they don't take an active interest in. The concept of sex just happens to be a very universal interest, not to mention an extremely broad term. That's my hypothesis, anyway.
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I dunno. I thnk there are two stages an artist can occupy where the popularity argument false and true, but I'm pretty sure this only applies within the fuzzy-walled garden of the fandom.
If you're a relatively unknown artist, porn definitely gets more watches, faves, and pageviews. People spot something on the front page, see that it's tittilating (damn, I love that word), and they pounce on it.
However, if one is an established and well-known artist, it doesn't matter what you post, it's going to get a crazy amount of attention from everyone, porn- and non-porn lovers alike.
Not every artist gets to that peak strictly on porn, though. It does help that some already on the peak will lift an unknown artist up by giving a shout-out, which is awesome. It shows that they truly enjoy what they do, and what others create, too. If a truly talented but struggling individual catches their eye, they extend the hand of friendship.
There are always exceptions, of course. Maybe an artist creates a clean web comic that has endearing characters, or the artist is really awesome at handling commissions and the word spreads, but for the rest of us that threshold has to be crossed, whether one draws porn or not.