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Long-nosed Horned Frog (Pelobatrachus nasutus), family Megophryidae, Lupa Masa Rainforest Camp, Sabah, Borneo

A pyromancer who burns most of her outfits 🔥🔥🔥 (Adara's 4 year redesign)

I know very few people who never accessed 18+ mature content before they were 18. But. They did NOT benefit from being completely isolated from adult material until they were suddenly given access to all of it and expected to know how to handle themselves. There’s a lot of strange infantilization about teenagers - no you can’t look at porn or go to the bathroom when you want, but the second you turn 18 you magically become capable of joining the military and smoking and getting hello kitty tattooed on your face? And idk how to tell ya but there are a lot of people who have sex before they turn 18. There are a lot of people who become parents before they turn 18.

First out of an abundance of caution so that anyone picking it up would know what they were getting into. Not just kids. You'd be surprised how common the "clean" label is with the adult audience.

The second reason was because readers of those works often knew specifically what they were looking for. Less a warning and more a promise. Trust me putting a M/M/M label on a story didn't equate to fewer readers. (That particular label indicates an all male threesome will take place.)

But overall, just posting is not usually a problem unless you are posting in a spot designed to attract underage people.

The other tricky spot seems to be teaching. We have seen public school teachers fired because someone discovered they were writing erotic romance, even if that was under a penname and unconnected to the job.