[WikiEN-l] So, why do we provide porn?

[The Mangoe]

Of course it could be fixed, assuming some bloody-minded type doesn't
fight it. The point is that the preference for graphic images makes
this kind of surprise happen readily.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> The Mangoe wrote:
>  > Um, yeah. Just this morning I was trying to fix up something involving
>  > insect mouth parts, and in clicking on "Labium", I was treated to a
>  > full color photo of female genitalia, up close and personal. There are
>  > a lot of booby-trapped links like that; one wonders how many
>  > ordinarily innocent phrases lead to similar surprises because the
>  > sexual fetish community-- and therefore Wikipedia-- has co-opted the
>  > phrase.
>  The specific example could easily be fixed by making [[Labium]] the
>  disambiguation page, and moving the current content to something like
>  [[Labium (genitalia)]].  The explicit title would avoid surprises  When
>  did the word "labium" become anything other than an innocent scientific
>  term.  Referring to the entire Wikipedia community as sexual fetishists
>  just because of your personal dislike of explicit photographs is
>  unnecessarily inflammatory.
>
>  Ec
>
>
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