Yeah, same here.

Sometimes I feel guilty of doing NSFW, mostly because I'm from a Christian family and to the eyes of them, do these stuff is a big sin.

But at the same time I sorta doubt that, cause at the end of the day we're kinda "telling a story/situation" with characters, so it's all fiction.

Yeah I feel this deeply.
I draw what I want and what I like, it makes me happy. I really like expressing myself sexually with my art.
But at the same time it like leaves me like no one to actually talk about my art with which is very disappointing and frustrating.

Thank you v much for this :')))) it really is hard sometimes to fight with internalized guilt when so much messaging nowadays is about how shameful sexuality is viewed (even the intensely vanilla aspects)

It's an amazing feeling to be free of those chains!!!✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 But boy oh boy is it a rollercoaster w some STEEP lows and highs, and I am feeling those lows atm TTwTT

Also just about took me out misreading the tag as "god is dead. raw what you want" FHDHDHF (like in a funny way not a bad way lmao)

I went to a christian camp getaway thing as a teen, and got so hyped up on the hot gospel talk that when I went home, I gathered up all the nsfw art I'd drawn on notebook paper, and burned it in front of everyone on the fourth of july. It was a big fat manila folder of porn I felt ashamed of drawing, and at the time burning it felt liberating, like i was making some kind of statement, like i was "doing the right thing".
Not even a week passed before the guilt and regret struck me. That was a LOT of art that was just Gone. Ideas I would never remember, characters I've since forgotten about, all just gone for a moment of religious excitement. I wish I had never done that. I wish i still had those early drawings to look back on, but they're just gone, and for what?
so anyway yeah don't be ashamed of drawing porn, and definitely dont burn it in a bonfire on the fourth of july

it's like the kind of thing that i'm still shaking off, and i haven't fully because lol i separated my sfw and nsfw accounts.

kink is a thing to be explored, not to be ashamed of, and it's something that i really was afraid to think about until i started hanging out with other artists who were okay with talking about and discussing nsfw content and whatnot.

the distinction of porn and "real" art is an entirely arbitrary one and one that i think the world would be better off without.

I was lucky enough to be able to let that go early on, but it truly kills me to see artists, skilled and IMMENSELY practiced, succumb to that weird guilt.
Draw what you want, and never feel shame for it!

Thank you for saying this. I draw both sfw and nsfw...and I'm always trying to balance how much nsfw I can 'justify' doing before feeling like I'm spending too much time on it, as if it were taking away time from my other, just as valid projects.

I don't want to feel guilty anymore. It takes time and some days are easier than others to get through those thoughts. So again, thanks.