Erik Moeller wrote:
We went through
this with 'clitoris'. We used to have a photo there
which was terrible and in poor taste.
I beg to differ. So far, I still haven't seen any reasonable argument on
what was wrong with the original picture. And, as I recall, it could be
tracked down to a website about the clitoris, not to a porn site. You
will have to accept that many people are not happy to follow someone
else's opinion on what is "terrible and in poor taste"."
And everyone will have to accept that in a wiki, if your writing style
is bad, or your taste in photos is bad, other people will delete it.
People who are not happy to follow other people's opinions to a
significant degree probably have a lot of stress when wiki editing in
general, no?
Aesthetics is not something which is easy to argue
about, obviously. In
the clitoris discussion, I got the impression that some people
deliberately were looking for "ugly" pictures in order to make sure that
any sexual arousal by the image is prevented. Someone even suggested a
truly horrible and inaccurate illustration from 1866, when women weren't
even believed to be capable of orgasm. Is it objective to say that a
vagina or penis which is unattractive is more tasteful and encyclopedic
than one which is attractive?
Well, it is objective to say that if the purpose of a photo is
educational, it needs to be (unlike the 1866 illustration) accurate
and informative. And it is also objective to say that if the purpose
of a photo is educational, then it should focus on the informational
aspect rather than on sexually arousing (or shocking, or whatever) the
viewer.
Let's be honest here: Someone who really wanted to
know about
autofellatio -- out of the desire to know about the subject, not out
of the desire to discuss its merits as we do -- probably would like
to see that photo, even if it's not the best possible one.
This person will not be hindered by us having the photo as a link.
To be even more informative, we could add a link to the google image
search (or similar) with a notice explaining that if you click it, you
are likely to get what you're asking for: autofellatio images.
--Jimbo