Recent content by Menace

That might be the theory, but in practice I'm following accounts with several 18+ stories and they are still there. So it seems the ban is enforced pretty badly. But we're really getting off course here.

There is a lot of adult content on deviantart right now.

I highly doubt that would happen. Sorting stories by popularity shows that there's quite a lot R - rated stuff among the things people read on the site. So unless the owner would want to intentionally limit traffic it would shooting themselves in the foot. Never mind actually trying to enforce...

I think there's a misconception about how different the preferences of adults and YA adults differ. It's pretty likely that someone reading some YA fiction will keep reading it further into adulthood. Heck it's possible to enjoy both. I've read both "serious literature" and translations of...