In message 4386325.983324798982.JavaMail.root@crowe.unimessage.net, littles@lycos.co.uk writes
After all, if Gareth Thomas doesn't have a problem with going to a convention with adult artwork, why should anyone else worry?
Having hauled Gareth along to the realism in slash panel when this subject came up so that he had an opportunity to explain how he felt about slash, I presume you *weren't* at that panel. To say that Gareth is comfortable with adult art would be stretching things somewhat.
He stated that he had no problem with slash fanfic, but that nude art was a more complicated matter. If someone from outside fandom sees such art, it is likely to be seen as nude art of Gareth Thomas, actor, rather than Blake, fictional character - with all that implies for people's opinion of him, and possibly his career.
This is not paranoia on Gareth's part. As an editor of adult zines, I changed my policy on explicit art after I met an example of the fan who either cannot, or can but doesn't want to, distinguish between actor and character. This person's stage door behaviour worried the other fans present, and clearly worried Paul Darrow.