My favourite of my sets, Water has been sitting in MR for almost three months and I must say that it makes me a bit confused. Looking at other MR sets and frontpage even more confused.

Is it that the recession makes people crave for safety and peace? Just like women were forced back to suburbs and the maternal role after WWII, the SG audience wants their girls pretty and innocent? There has been some great photography and modelling on the frontpage, yes, but the lack of emotional and political sets make me wonder if this is what they are looking for now.

For example, Charlie's Kinda Scary and Prussia's I want to believe showcase beauty that isn't easy. It's independent, strong and sexy but not something you could control.

The thing I despise in traditional pornography is the feeling of subjugation that has nothing to do with S/M but with the power relations in the society. Women are portrayed like mindless dolls without will of their own, something that the spectator has power over. Portrayal of the fantasy to have control over another human being.

SG in it's early days broke that pattern by creating a space for women to portray themselves in their own terms, to be subjected to the gaze and in the same time in control of it. And I'm not saying that one can't portray her/himself in a powerless way and still have control over the situation, just that the sets with opposite themes tend to be forgotten, they are not given the place to be part of site's canon.
I am fascinated by different ways of portraying women and the diversity is what matters to me. And there seems to be so little of that nowadays.

At times I hope that members' and models' opinions would matter more and create a renaissance of creative and mind-blowing sets. And on the other hand, I believe that the silent majority votes with their subscriptions... Would you like to have art challenging your perceptions or something nice and normal for your $4?