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Originally Posted by lynn P.
Personally I refuse to answer casual sexual questions because its my private business and I don't feel the need to discuss it.
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I think that your personal rule is great, but, the thread's title asked for opinions on the favorite sexual positions, and, in doing so - straightforwardly and without any nuances of meaning - it put you on notice about the content of the post. So if you refuse to answer casual sexual questions, and, moreover, find the question itself an invasion of privacy, it seems that you should not have clicked through. You did click through - in order to
1) form an opinion about the visual, as expressed on the original thread and the current thread,
2) side with the policy on censoring web content employed by the administration of the college attended by one of the original thread's participants,
3) post on both threads
- you must have clicked through.
So if you were put on notice, and you had your own policy on what kind of questions you would answer, and you felt that the question was an invasion of your privacy, why did you click through?
Clearly, the site administration does various things in an effort to put us on notice - the forum is described as being "frank" and you are advised not to read it if the content disturbs you; there is an option to block the forum from view - say, mentions of SI generally disturb me so once I found out about the forum blocking capability on the site, I immediately blocked the SI forum, so I no longer see the latest SI post when I scroll down the list of forums. So the site administration tries to be helpful.
That said, there is a limit to what it can do while trying to be helpful: if you click through
against your own policy and
despite being put on notice, I do not know what the administration can really do to protect you, because your clicking actions are completely outside of the administration's control.
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Originally Posted by lynn P.
Asking what sexual position has a creepy factor similar to a person calling and asking "what are you wearing?"  Some people get pleasure from reading this. |
I did not see anything creepy in the post. Moreover, the thread was started by an old timer, who has made numerous posts that endeared me to him and revealed his many vulnerabilities and, in his posting, he has come across as very genuine. I cannot assess the analogy between his question and being called and asked what I am wearing, though, because nobody has ever called me to ask what I am wearing.
I also do not have a problem with people getting pleasure from reading this or anything else. There are all kinds of people with all kinds of unusual sides to them and there might be people who enjoy reading about suffering. There might be people who take pleasure in reading the depression forum while not being depressed themselves. All sorts of things might be happening. The administration clearly cannot gain visibility into the brains of the users, even if it had an unlimited budget.
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Originally Posted by lynn P.
I felt if a nude animation pic was posted anywhere else it would've been deleted.
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It was a computer animation. I do not think that you can call it "nude". I feel that the adjective "nude" can only be used to describe real human bodies, depicted in art or captured via the use of various tools of technology. Unless this can be called "nude":
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/phys...rso-side.page?