The Mystery of Deviant Art Fans

"Please, sir, do not rape me, we have not yet been properly introduced."

This is my second most popular upload to my public-facing Deviant Art site, "A Cry of Surrender Heard in the Dungeons." Over 12,000 views to date. Twenty "Favorites" (viewers who like you work can add it to their Favorites section, which displays the image on their site, and includes link so viewers can visit my site) and three comments. It's one of the least artsy of my images, the imagery on the woman's face is very loose, almost impressionistic. Still, I can understand why people like it. It's simply done, but the woman's body and face have a real passion and tension to them. Her pose and expression would be entirely appropriate if the man behind her binding her arms (such as her arms are, more really loose work) was instead fucking her standing doggie style. I also think my title for the image was fire.

This one is called "After the Dance" as in, "After the dance comes the fucking of the dancer."

This image is in ways very similar to the one above. Once again a man is behind a woman who is in bondage, his body pressed against hers as he holds her bound arms. It's MUCH more graphically sophisticated than the image above it. The facial expressions are much stronger than the above image, I especially like the way the head harness panel gag on the woman came out. Civitai frequently fucks up even simple ballgags, a gag rendered this well  is vaguely miraculous. All I can figure is that the looser rendering of the top image gives the slave's facial expression more emotional intensity. With her mouth hidden by the gag her expression is more, how shall we say, restrained?

Anyway, 5,500 or so views on this image, less than half of what the top image got. 18 Favorites (nearly as many as the top image got) so proportinately twice as many people who saw this image liked it enough to Favorite it. And two comments.

All I can think is that the higher emotional intensity of the first image, and the fact that the slavegirl was fully naked helped a lot. An awful lot. (That bra was unasked-for and a bad idea, but Civitai does hate nudity, it's a constant struggle even in relatively uncensored Civitai models.) On the other hand, if you look closely at the lower picture, you'll see that the guy's "shorts" are strangely hiked up in the middle. It's almost like he's wearing a short dress instead of shorts, like the guys wore in those old gladiator movies (aka peplum). Which means what COULD be making his dress tent is his cock, because he's actively fucking the woman he's holding. My preferred explanation, but I'm guessing most casual viewers didn't catch that bit.

In short, I have no idea why some images work and other don't... but I'm paying attention, and I'm learning.