Same here. The avoidance of sexual content isn't a morality or cultural thing, it's just completely uninteresting to me and I feel blatant sex scenes are often unnecessary. :u But it's hard for many to understand that point of view. Though it's good to have seen several other people around here feel the same.
I will never draw characters who smoke. I think it's an awful habit, and I just couldn't enjoy drawing or writing a character who does it, nor do I want to promote it as an acceptable habit.
I won't depict most other kinds of drugs either. I might show characters drinking a little alcohol (but probably not to the point of getting drunk), and I might show characters using drugs for religious rituals if I felt it necessary, but generally speaking it's something I avoid.
It depends on the kind of precedent you wish to set. If you're all about doing whatever your audience wants and have established yourself as such, by all means.
I won't ever depict rape, abuse, hard drug-use, bigotry, racism etc. etc. in a positive light.
I'm okay with most sexual things, but not those really niche fetishes like vore, cake-farting, anything to do with fecal matter, sounding, or anything that makes me cringe.
I mainly hate discrimination so I won't allow any of my characters to discriminate someone n let him live without a consequence.
THE LAST SAMURAI
there's not too many things i would say i absolutely would not depict in a comic. i actually sometimes like being repelled, and a story being repelling just for the sake of being repelling is better than a story being repelling because the creator themself is repelling.
of course, the limitations depend on the kind of story being told. swearing, political intrigue, and copious blood and guts, while i'm not opposed to any of it, would look somewhat out of place with my current comic, whose protagonists are mainly children in a subdued society.
Same! It's unfortunate, but there are a lot of stories out there that romanticize abusive and controlling behaviour. I'm definitely trying to avoid that!
... is.. is this a thing? I had no idea.
Fillers?
Obvious tropes and cliches, you can have words of power that aren't the obvious tropes, but it's very hard to make them.
Porn, that includes no weird fetishes you only see on Deviantart
And discrimination
@joannekwan ...Do I dare ask what Cake-farting is? lol
I'm not sure if I want to say there's something that will forever be off limits for me.
However I would make sure that if I ever pick up some shadier topic, I wouldn't downplay it in any means (like it wasn't that bad because they love each other now TEEHEE). Also like @joannekwan said about portraying racism, abuse etc. I don't like to see those things romanticized, which is what happens pretty often.
Also the pure evil vs pure good is something, like @noctuidae, I don't think I'll ever want to feature in my stories. Grayscale is something I like when it's about characters and their morals. I'm not saying it can't be done well, but it's not something I'm interested in making. At least for now.
I think most important is to be aware of things you put in to your comics and for what reason.
Things I'll never do in my comic:
I'll never mush two characters together just because they are being shipped.
I'm not going to spare a character just because a lot of people like them, if the character is destined to die in the story, then they are going to die.
Like Joannekwan, I won't depict rape, abuse, bigotry, racism and so on in a positive light.
I would say that anything can be really good or terrible just depending of the way it's showed in a story. Even the biggest cliché wtv can still looks good. I'm not against chosen ones, only the ones that are boring, predictable and repetitive.
About what I would not do, I was more restrictive in the past, but now it really depends of the story I'm doing...
It would be great if we can simply leave our tastes or preconceptions behind when creating something. It's too hard... But at least try to do some diferent points od view (?)
If we just put our tastes in our characters they'll all end up being the same person.... x.x A world full of me.... What a nightmare... :
-Scatologic humor or porn (all right with other kinds of porn XD)
-"And in the end it was all a dream"
-Involve in social topics that I don't have clear... Or take party in a war conflict between two countries... If it's necessary I'd try to show all the complexity of the matter wothout taking party.
-I try not being maniqeist (good vs evil)
.I think I'd never show a character taking drugs...
Now I remember somethong that made me real mad, when I was watching Terminator Salvation SPOILER ALERT when the good cyborg sacrificates himself to save John Connor, and John Connor (who is a good guy, the hero, the savior, a model to follow =_=) ACCEPTS HE DONATES HIS HEART AND DIE. JOHN YOU BE SUPPOSED A GOOD GUY. Well, I hate the thing "this really really bad thing must be made for the sake of a supposed supreme GOOD". That is something that I never want to put in a story.
It really depends on the story for me. When i do commissions my gimmick is that there is "nothing i wont draw" and there's not....and let me tell yah ive got alot of messed up stuff. But comic wise "if it fits it ships" BUT if i know what people will freak out about and i wont include those things.
Given the fact that Terminator Salvation is like almost a decade old, is it REALLY a "spoiler"? Lol...
I don't think that the opinions people are expressiong could be called aversions to sex; I think we're all adults about its existence, but that we're trying to avoid participating in its... Unnecessary overabundance in stories that are not ABOUT sex. We can all think of an unfortunate sex/makeout scene in a movie that just does noooot need to be there. Some of us have even watched them with family in the room, because that kind of scene wasn't expected- thank goodness I'm not talking about me here. My heart goes out to those that HAVE gone through that though.
As for fanservice, I think probably that's a matter of objectification. It's such a broad term that could be used to excuse a lot of choices that could be dumb for any given story. Some comics are intended for fanservice, but others are an actual piece of media trying to tell a multi-layered story, yet for some reason the artist also has all the women in skimpy gear no matter the setting. It's just cheesey in a lot of cases where fanservice isn't the joke/the point.
you just had to bring that up 
(i was three when i cried at that and had 30 years of piss taking from my brothers GRR!)
LOL
hahahahaha
but I guess I'm being a hypocrite cause the main baddies of Time Gate for the chunk of the story is a government group called the society
/sigh cliche af
As for things I wouldn't do in my story? I'm not really sure, but here are some listed off the top of my head:
Unnecessary love triangles. I'm not gonna force some cheesy cliche romantic plot if it doesn't make sense (especially cause Uzuki, the main character, is not one to give that much of a shit for romance). If I do do a love triangle, I'll at least make sure it's a proper love triangle, which means that one of the characters would be gay lol (and out of the three likely characters that would get into a love triangle, the two guys involved are DEFINITELY NOT GAY at least not outside of my smut writings WHAT)
Unnecessary shipping scenes. Yeah I know people want to see Uzuki and Mitsuhiro ~get it on~ but even if it does happen I'm not gonna just let it happen out of the blue. The April Fool's pages I did this year were kind of a jab at that concept (and the people that do it). Let them fall in love gradually, don't have them suddenly doing loving shit out of nowhere if it makes zero sense for them to be doing so and you're only doing it to shut your fanbase up. Your fanbase can be patient and if they're only in it to see the main characters ~get it on~ despite the main plot of the story being about everything except that, then clearly it's not the story for them and they should stop torturing themselves lol
I can't say I do this directly in the same sense of "The Sword of Truth", buuuut books 2 and 3 sort of fall into this trope, only a little though. It's definitely not as cliche as your examples :U
TIME GATE: THE SWORD OF DESTINYYYYY
(not actual title of any installment in the series, if i do make a title like this, please shoot me, because i must be braindead by that point and i would have no further desire to live).
I'm currently working on a fight scene and the most my pages get is lots of blood, but never like . . . anything squishy.
That's my rule. No squishy shit. No intestines or brains please. Cuts and gashes and blood, sweet, as long as it's not forced, but I don't want to be seeing anything squishy come out of there, that's bad news bears for me lol
I think it's mainly because of the fact that most comics these days that have any sex in them are just so forced. Especially when it comes to furry comics, but not just those either. Any time sex tends to be in comics it seems to be for a.) the creator's personal kinks, or b.) the READERS and THEIR kinks, or because they just want to see characters have sex and the creator goes "welp fuck it let's do it even though it makes no sense in context".
There are so few comics that do sex well these days. It's depressing. We're in the prime of the sex world right now, especially with the introduction of virtual reality porn via devices like the Oculus Rift, but for god's sakes it seems that sex is just getting cheesier and cheesier because of these things /shudders
Don't know if this counts but in one book I have a character who's pretty much immortal who repeatedly tries to commit suicide and can't seem to off themselves. And it's not even because they want to die, they just want to test the boundaries of their immortality and see if they actually can die (and the fact that they're bored).
I dunno if that falls into the same category of what you're describing but I mean, that's a thing and I'm actually looking forward to writing it because it's really a moral, personal dilemma in the context of the story and you can really feel the character's desperation to just find out the truth of their existence.
Yessss. KILL THEM ALLLL
