The name’s Art, Erotic Art.

• A manifesto against eBay’s censorship of all erotic works

The world has been having sex since its inception. Men are attracted to women, women are conquered by men, women are loved by women, men are sought after by other men. In such a world I grew up, was educated, and most importantly, self-educated over the years.

In 2009, when I embraced my new fate (that of an erotic plastic artist) with the confidence that none of this can change, but, on the contrary, will evolve into an even wider opening, more honest with ourselves, more revealing about our common being and our different way of reacting in intimacy.

But in the year 2022, the eBay consortium wants to show me how the whole struggle of humanity in the plan of gaining full rights to a truthful sexuality, without being tailored or socially stigmatized, is an absurd hologram of the beginning of the third millennium.

Erotic art by any graphic artist or painter is no longer tolerated on eBay, with any work that is nude or depicts “provocative clothing” or “sexual overtones” being permanently censored. Thus, the respective auction appears only as a virtual place empty of the title and the related image. As a result, no one will ever know about the new creations of erotic art that appear.

If they called you Correggio, Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Rubens, Schiele, Klimt, Bosch, Hokusai, Manet, Cezanne, Courbet, Velázquez, Picasso, Warhol a.s.o. it would have been in vain – because eBay.com would have censored all your freedom creative. From 1999 to 2022, eBay didn’t have such stupid rules that totally obstruct any erotic artwork. But now everything seems an incomprehensible pettiness, pathetic even in the intolerant baseness of those who thought up the new regulation.

Things would not have been different even if you had been the creator of ancient Greek bas-reliefs or statues (you know, Greek athletes are only depicted competing naked), Roman frescoes in the houses of the largest landowners or senators (sexual orgies were their favorite theme), carved erotic images on Hindu temples and in Southeast Asia. Even if you were Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci, and your masterpieces loaded with eroticism and sexuality sat proudly in the Sistine Chapel and other Renaissance churches, you would not be allowed to display them in the year 2023 on eBay.com. because nakedness scares the people who now run the online platform more than the famine, viruses, war, recession.

I’m wondering why? When any video on TikTok or photos posted on Instagram by music artists, actors and “influencers” of globalist consumerism is almost explicit or overtly sexual content. When we started to open up to each other, to communicate our preferences, to accept and tolerate each other, there are still intransigent positions, of façade conservatism that attack the historical foundations of human understanding and evolution.

Hypocrisy or medieval traditionalism of eBay’s current management? Either way you put it, ART REMAINS ART, regardless of the background noise of some ignorant people or non-erotic activists. Censored or accepted, erotic art was, is and will remain one of the engines of humanity’s spiritual existence.

Do you understand, „dear” eBay, why this ostentatious act of denying artistic eroticism only belittles and insults people’s intelligence? Because whether you say it out loud or not, you want it too, you admire it too, you fuck it too. Yes, you, ignorant bitch!