At 05:26 PM 2/13/2005 -0800, Nicholas Knight wrote:
I see nothing wrong with an encyclopedia having a blanket policy that sexually explicit photographs not be displayed in articles. You can argue relativism, subjectiveness, and "censorship" all you want, we both know it's crap.
You _think_ it's crap. Others obviously think otherwise, or there'd be no ongoing debate.
We're here to provide an educational resource. Inlined explicit photographs of sex acts as a whole do little to educate that a line drawing wouldn't do, and only turn people off to Wikipedia as an educational resource.
Perhaps you could provide a line drawing to substitute for it? Back when I first notice the poll on this thing before it had erupted onto the mailing list, someone suggested that the photograph was unacceptable but that we should find a piece of "artwork" to substitute, and I jokingly suggested running the photograph through Photoshop's brushstroke filter. Maybe an edge filter could turn it into a line drawing and actually be a way to resolve this.