Nicholas Knight wrote:
_*How is the image useful*_?
Um, it describes the act of autofellatio. That's about as useful as it gets. Personally I'd rather we had a photo of a guy getting much of his penis in his mouth.
Can you give me a single example of a case where a PHOTOGRAPH of a sexual act is meaningfully more useful than a line drawing?
All cases I would have said. A photo shows actuality, a sketch can be inaccurate.
If it's pertinent and not gratuitous, I don't tend to have a problem
It IS gratuitious.
Heh, well many people probably think the act itself is gratuitous. It's actually a pretty good picture, which says to me many people complaining about this picture aren't complaining so much about the picture but about the act.
Most people do not want to see photographs of explicit sex acts when browsing an encyclopedia. Given the lack of educational value such images have, I see no reason to drive those people, including me, off with such images.
Where does this "most people" come from? You have some data I assume.
Christiaan