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Hey! Did you know that, of the top five pictures that appear when you Google Image Search "Tom Preston", three are my comics! That's pretty neat, right??
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The inflation bit made me laugh, but in all honesty it's not because he has drawn fetish art, but it's the way he handles the subject.
Tom forgets the impact of the 'streisand effect', meaning that if you try to hide something, people will start to notice that. (eg. when I say: "Don't look at the mess in my room", everyone is going to notice the mess in my room.)
Hiding something also gets a #2 label, as in that 'when' you hide something, that means you're asshamed for it and for those with 'evil intent', it becomes the perfect ball to play back.

Now, I'm not saying everyone has to be completely open about their fetishes and/or sexual orientation (let's be honest, the internet is TMI enough on its own), but it's better to admit (whenever it's pointed out) that you have a certain attraction and that if they don't like and/or understand it, that's all logic and understandable. Just click the back button and go on with your lives (Hell, that's what I do whenever I see something that personally offends me. Plus, everyone is their own person and/or allowed their own life and happiness after all), rather than that you're going around making excuses for the sake of putting yourself down as a stronger, more normal, more intelligent and superior human being... which is what Preston does and which is also what makes his inflation fetish a powerful tool to begin with.

The point I'm trying to make here is: We're all human beings here, we've all got our own strange and quircky attractions and that is alright! Our personality, our hobbies, what we like, what we believe and what we do is what makes us all unique as an individual. I personally love drawing rule 34, but it's not like I'm 'forcing' people to watch it, it's not like drawing art is my full-time job and/or professional trade, I draw what I like and I draw for fun and if someone is really offended by my work for whatever reason: nothing is stopping them from going somewhere else, they don't have to like me or the stuff I draw, that is for them to decide, not me. Problem solved.

And sure, there will be people who sign onto a site like Furaffinity, change the settings in order to be able to view Adult artwork and then start ranting about said adult artwork for how 'wrong' and 'immoral' it is. You can facepalm at that and yes, those people exist, but there's an easy way to deal with them: Ignore them and if they're really volatile hate mongers: block them and get it over with. Someone who does not even want to 'try' to listen to reason and only wants to tell someone else how 'wrong' or 'perverted' they are, are generally not worth your time and effort. But if someone is simply curious and asks me if I drew 'those' fetish/rule34 pictures, I wouldn't wind long stories around them and just say something along the lines of: "Yes, I tend to have an affection towards <this> and <that> with <those characters>, I know it's a bit weird but that's just what I like." end of story.

While I agree it's not a 'good thing' to advertise such things when 'going professional', it is an even worse thing to outright say that you "no longer want anything to do with that stuff", not only are you making your personal fetishes go live, you also gave the trolls/haters powerful materials to use against you.
Again, a bit of maturity and (self) relativation comes with that and sadly, those things are not something Tom Preston is all too familiar with.