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ippiki ookami
Former StaffCan't decide if this is gay or straight...
leo nine
Member*tilts head*
Does it matter?
dude1982
Memberoh man.. at least he have the opportunity to lube it up.
Dorian Gray
Blockedfemale domination is stupid.
Twilix01
MemberAgreed
Jacob
BlockedHow can you NOT be able to figure it out? Questions of orientation only become confusing or muddled when there's more than two people involved in the act. If it's one character, you ask yourself one simple multi-part question: Is the character the image focuses on masturbating to a picture, if so, is the character in the picture they're masturbating to visible, and, finally, if so, is the gender of the character in the image easy to discern? If any one part of this question can be answered with "no," then no orientation tag can be added. If they're all yes, then tag it as straight if it's a male character masturbating to a picture of a female character or vice-versa, gay if it's a male character masturbating to a male character, lesbian if it's a female masturbating to a female, and intersex if the either character is herm/dickgirl/cuntboy. Two characters? The question you ask yourself is even simpler: What gender is each character? If both are male, it's gay. If both are female, it's lesbian. If either is herm/dickgirl/cuntboy, it's intersex. If one is male and the other female, it's straight. It DOESN'T MATTER what the characters are doing to each other, it's a simple question of their genders. (Unless there's some visible, on-screen proof that one character is imagining the other to be a gender different from reality...that's the only way a two-character image's sexuality becomes unclear.)
Jirokoshi
Member^^^^^^
wat?
Jacob
BlockedThen again, since you can see neither the chest nor the nether-regions of the character that's licking the strap-on, and (to the best of my knowledge) there are no other images of that character on this site from which to establish a precedence, none of that matters for this particular image. 'cause the "male" tag's gotta' go...
ippiki ookami
Former StaffIt seems vandalizing tags isn't the only thing you're overly passionate about.
Jacob
BlockedAh, forgive me. I used too many big words. Allow me to dumb down the message of my first comment for you: People who can't figure out if an image is gay/straight/les/whatever when there's only two characters in it are idiots.
Jacob
BlockedOr ignorant. One of the two...
ippiki ookami
Former StaffIt's a male and a female, which implies straight. But the male is sucking on a penis-shaped strapon, which implies gay. Thus the confusion.
Jacob
BlockedOkay, ippiki, two tings: First, the chest of the character that's on their knees extends outward from the stomach, which can be interpreted either as the beginning of a boob, or as it merely being a male with a slim belly. The gender, therefore, is subject to the judgement of the viewer, and as there is no on-site way of proving it to be male OR female, you can't tag it as male. Secondly, even if you COULD prove it was definitely male, sucking on a penis-shaped strap-on does NOT imply he's gay. It could mean that (and that he's going to close his eyes and imagine it's a real penis when it goes in him), or it could just mean he's a particularly kinky straight guy. Or even that he's just bi! Since the other character is clearly female, there's no indication he is somehow missing the pussy and tits telling him so, and there's no way of knowing what's going through his head, the only thing that can be assumed is that he's into girls wearing strap-ons.
kaomera
MemberIt definitely is, unless that's a nullo.
AlyaStormrider
MemberIf you follow the link back to the original, the artist tags it as male and female.
Blaank
MemberUhh..
male/female = hetero.
male/male or female/female = homo.
male or female alone = solo.
It's not that hard.
Jacob
Blockedhttp://e621.net/forum/show/22963
This is why I've changed the tags back again...See, "it doesn't matter what ANYONE says" would include the source image's tags. There's nothing that clearly defines the kneeling one as a male in this image, so anyone searching for images with the "male" tag wouldn't want to see this pic.
Chonkis
Membertheres something really nice about the old works of this artist
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