Erik Moeller wrote:
The fact that you compare human body parts to suicide methods and excrements is somewhat disturbing, but let's not get into this. Just some basic cause and effect. Feces are prone to carry disease, that is why most human beings are taught to avoid touching or even eating them (there may also be a biological taboo that is triggered by the smell and/or taste; note that baby feces smell differently). Similarly, most human beings with a functional brain avoid pain, as such, events that are likely to cause pain or death, as well as images of pain and death, are likely to trigger the emotional associations that have been built through a lifetime to teach avoidance thereof.
This is an argument that feces is "correctly" considered offensive, while those who consider nudity offensive are incorrect. Such arguments are completely irrelevant to the current discussion: it is not your (or anyone's) place to decide whether it is "natural" to avoid pain or feces and "unnatural" to avoid nudity. It is a simply fact that a great many people consider explicit close-up images of a clitoris offensive--in fact, perhaps there are more people who consider such photos offensive than there are who consider photos of feces offensive. You can argue they're wrong, but I don't think that personal viewpoint ought to influence the encyclopedia.
In fact, I think people who consider close-up photos of a clitoris *appropriate* for public display are probably a fairly small minority, worldwide.
-Mark