Erik Moeller wrote:
We went through this with 'clitoris'. We used to have a photo there which was terrible and in poor taste.
I beg to differ. So far, I still haven't seen any reasonable argument on what was wrong with the original picture. And, as I recall, it could be tracked down to a website about the clitoris, not to a porn site. You will have to accept that many people are not happy to follow someone else's opinion on what is "terrible and in poor taste"."
And everyone will have to accept that in a wiki, if your writing style is bad, or your taste in photos is bad, other people will delete it. People who are not happy to follow other people's opinions to a significant degree probably have a lot of stress when wiki editing in general, no?
Aesthetics is not something which is easy to argue about, obviously. In the clitoris discussion, I got the impression that some people deliberately were looking for "ugly" pictures in order to make sure that any sexual arousal by the image is prevented. Someone even suggested a truly horrible and inaccurate illustration from 1866, when women weren't even believed to be capable of orgasm. Is it objective to say that a vagina or penis which is unattractive is more tasteful and encyclopedic than one which is attractive?
Well, it is objective to say that if the purpose of a photo is educational, it needs to be (unlike the 1866 illustration) accurate and informative. And it is also objective to say that if the purpose of a photo is educational, then it should focus on the informational aspect rather than on sexually arousing (or shocking, or whatever) the viewer.
Let's be honest here: Someone who really wanted to know about autofellatio -- out of the desire to know about the subject, not out of the desire to discuss its merits as we do -- probably would like to see that photo, even if it's not the best possible one.
This person will not be hindered by us having the photo as a link.
To be even more informative, we could add a link to the google image search (or similar) with a notice explaining that if you click it, you are likely to get what you're asking for: autofellatio images.
--Jimbo