[WikiEN-l] Re: Autofellatio - NO to that image

Mon Feb 14 11:28:22 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:
> csherlock at ljh.com.au (csherlock at ljh.com.au) [050214 11:23]:

>>Out of interest Arno, why are you looking at the Autofellatio article if 
>>you risk getting offended?
> 
> 
> 
> I too would like to know the answer to this question.
> 
> (It's like people who complain the picture on [[clitoris]] is not worksafe
> and can't come up with why they were reading about clitorises in the course
> of their job.)
> 
> nb: the photo on [[autofellatio]] is indeed awful.
> 

I think it's perfectly reasonable to want to read about a sexual or 
otherwise explicit subject without seeing explicit images of it.  I am 
quite interested to know what exactly autofellatio is, if it really is 
possible and what proportion of the population are able - but I'm really 
not interested in seeing an image of it.  And if I am, I'll turn of 
safe-search on google and search for images there.

The argument that I can turn off images on my browser seems a bad one to 
me - for a start, many people don't know how to do this (never 
underestimate the non-techyness of the general user).  It's also 
inconvenient to have to switch images on and off for different pages 
(especially as I use tabs).  And for the general reader, why would they 
/expect/ to have to turn images off when reading a general encyclopaedia?

--sannse

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