[Gendergap] Hardcore images essay - HELP!

[Ryan Kaldari]

Yep, try 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_using_vacuum_cleaners

So do we all agree that the Principle of Least Astonishment needs to be 
encoded into some kind of policy or guideline? In other words, images 
with a sexual context should only appear in articles/categories that 
also have a sexual context. Otherwise, Wikipedia naturally tends towards 
an editorial policy dictated by 20-year-old single white males who see 
no problem with keeping pictures of naked women in every corner of 
Wikipedia and Commons.

Ryan Kaldari

On 2/17/11 11:55 AM, Sydney Poore wrote:
> Not true.
>
> In fact the careless way that these images are categorized and linked 
> to inappropriate articles is one of my main concerns.
>
> Often sexually explicit or sexually titillating images placed in very 
> mundane categories like electric fan, couch, or coca cola.
>
> So when these topic are linked to Commons the sexual content appears 
> without the person expecting it.
>
> My attempts to fix this on a case by case basis are often reverted.
>
> When I discuss it with the some of the people reverting, I'm told that 
> I denying people the ability to find these images...censorship.
>
> Sydney
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Nepenthe <topazbutterfly at gmail.com 
> <mailto:topazbutterfly at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     An important point to remember about images depicting sexual
>     practices on Wikipedia: one has to look for them. In order to see
>     the image stirring so much controversy, one actually has to visit
>     "Bukkake". This isn't Playboy calendars on the wall, it's Playboys
>     under the mattress in a different city.
>
>     Unless our missing female contributors are entering through the
>     site through pornography and sexuality pages, it's relatively
>     unlikely that they will see any of these images. Perhaps it is
>     possible to exclude them from "Random page", in which case a
>     person offended by the images would never see them unless they
>     looked for them specifically.
>
>     Nepenthe
>
>
>
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