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Hi, cymru.lass and, first of all, let me apologise for my appalling delay. It's always good to hear from you!
Lately, I've been overrun with work, which is very good, but also very fatiguing... As a consequence, I've heavily reduced my wiki-presence, because, when I get home, I only wish to collapse on the couch...
The conversation about the ejaculation video and pictures has been framed in terms of censorship/freedom of speech. Instead of going into the legal intricacies of what is or what isn't allowed on wikipedia's webpage, how about we think generously and altruistically about the children of this world. Normally, to see ejaculations one has to sign in to a password-protected porn site. Wikipedia's page is nothing of the sort, so let us remember back to a time when we were not all desensitized by the glut of online porn, when the innocence of our children was something to uphold and protect (and when people knew that letting a child see a graphic sexual act was a breech of his innocence) - in short, when ejaculation was something a boy saw first when his own body performed it.
Wikipedia could dance around and around on the censorship issue, and perhaps win on those grounds and continue to broadcast these images, but wikipedia has a social responsibility. Of course a common response will be, "Why is it harmful for a child to see a real ejaculation? This happens! It's biological!" People have been so desensitized by the saturation of sexual images in our society that the answer to this is no longer in reach. It's because these images titillate, they arouse (at least in those that haven't been been over-exposed to porn) and have the potentional to induce a child into the seamy world of online sexual addiction, that a child should be protected from them. That's why. Does anyone have a heart for this issue? Can anyone be sensate and feeling enough to want to spare children from the under-world of online sexual perversion? Does anyone still appreciate the difference between sexual health and sexual perversion?
We could trumpet our "right" to express, educate, disseminate freely and without hindrance, but could we shift the debate to the responsibility we have to our children. PLEASE - let's think about others and remember the children. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.54.213.35 (talk • contribs) 15:10, 27 December 2010
(talk page stalker) Hi, I'm cyrmu.lass (a friend of salvio's), so I hope you don't mind my replying to this post. There's no simple answer to the question of what is and isn't appropriate when it comes to sexually explicit images. The question of the line between encyclopedic material and gratuitous nudity is unclear and different people have different opinions. Personally, I think that showing ejaculation and other forms of nudity is all right, so long as it is only used to inform and not used to excite.
There's a couple of pages I think you should read; they're pages documenting some official Wikipedia policy, as well as essays documenting the opinions of readers on this subject (click that link for more information on Wikipedia essays).
The first is Wikipedia:CENSORED, which is a paragraph covering objectionable content as a whole, with links to other policy, guidelines and essays. In a nutshell, the page says that content that violates Wikipedia policy and/or the laws of Florida (the location of Wikipedia's servers) will be removed, but other things won't be removed simply because a person or people object to them.
If you're concerned specifically about your children seeing these images and videos, you can look at Wikipedia:Options to not see an image to block out images.
Aw, thanks! I know you've been busy, so I've been stopping by from time to time to make sure no one's vandalized your talk page or needs help. I have a little too much time on my hands, it being the winter hols and all How've you been? ---- cymru.lass(hit me up)⁄(background check)17:14, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to thank you for making sure noone has vandalised this page, I appreciate this very much!
Lately, I've been great; I've hardly had any time to breathe, though... But, from time to time, whenever I manage to get a little time for myself, I come back here and take a look at the areas I like working in; it helps me to relax. And how have you been? By the by, I see you have a new userpage: I like it very much! SalvioLet's talk about it!19:17, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much Salvio for your warm welcome! :) I've just made my first contribution requesting to add a snippet in the Blogs entry, now I need to wait. Thank you very much for the information you provided me! :D And happy new year!--Findernet (talk) 17:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, things are finally starting to fall into place, I have more time for myself and for my hobbies and I'm no longer being beat up by deadlines . Just take my advice: don't ever get married... SalvioLet's talk about it!16:19, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You're correct: it's congratulazioni! I remember you could speak Spanish; well, Spanish and Italian are rather similar, to the point that they're mutually intelligible (citation needed ), except for some false friends, such as embarazada, which means pregnant and not embarassed (imbarazzata, in Italian), an error you might want to avoid if you're 17 and you're meeting for the first time the Spanish-speaking mother of your 16-year-old girlfriend. Erm...
Oh don't worry, that's not the worst Spanish mistake. I once told a host family in Costa Rica that I was hot (good-looking) instead of hot (warm). Good old ser vs. estar. I then proceeded to tell them Tengo mucho homre (I have many many man) instead of Tengo mucho hambre (I'm very hungry, literally I have much hunger). And yes, I said those sentences one after another. I was ten. --- c y m r u . l a s s(talk me, stalk me)01:46, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
