(January 16, 2015 at 11:21 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'm afraid you're going to do a lot of skipping if you're looking to avoid anything that might be construed as "gross."

We could propose a baseline ignore list...

(January 16, 2015 at 11:21 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'm afraid you're going to do a lot of skipping if you're looking to avoid anything that might be construed as "gross."

We.. thats sad.. i always thought that people here might be above the lizard brain mentality..

Come on, Esq... there's an Area69 for a reason.
And that reason is to keep this sort of conversations away from the younger audience that the forum in general is aimed at, right?
As a mod, you should have been the first to exercise restraint there... but, knowing you... knowing your line of business... you just couldn't!

The trouble is that if a mod goes along with this behavior then... what are standard users to make of rule 6:

Quote:No Pornography
Any pornographic content will be deleted immediately. This includes pictures, videos and links. Discussion of pornography is fine, but for legal reasons we cannot display pornographic material, even if it is hosted on another site. Remember, this means anything pornographic. Just because it is a cartoon or it is funny does not make something any less pornographic.

There is an exception to this rule. The adults only area is dubbed "Area 69." Atheist Forums allows adult material in this forum. For that reason, we prefer any discussion that is explicitly sexual and does not address any other topic to take place here as well. In order to gain entrance to this area, members must go to the area and request entrance. Please take a photo of a picture ID and your member name written on something in the same photo. You can black out all identifying features of the ID, except the photo itself and the year of birth.

Also, almost any thread that Losty takes part, at some point, has BDSM elements... Some of us become increasingly insensible to that, but the new people notice it and, naturally, feel uncomfortable.
Perhaps Losty would do well to work on restricting these conversations to A69...
It's nothing against Losty, she's a great gal... but this constant hijacking of threads with this kind of material should be stifled. Hasn't any mod noticed this yet?

(January 16, 2015 at 11:25 am)mainethinker Wrote: We.. thats sad.. i always thought that people here might be about the lizard brain mentality..

Being atheist, intelligent, rational or skeptic in no way precludes also enjoying the pleasures of the flesh.

Exactly, pocaracas, exactly.

Hopefully someday people will be grown in pods without the want for sex.
so people can study space and time without sex getting in the way

(January 16, 2015 at 11:33 am)mainethinker Wrote: Hopefully someday people will be grown in pods without the want for sex.
so people can study space and time without sex getting in the way

People can do all those things without getting rid of sex. Believe me, there are plenty of other distractions holding humanity back that have nothing to do with intimacy. You not wanting sex is fine. Me not wanting furry sex is fine. Deciding what sort of sex or lack of sex people should or shouldn't have, or hoping people get rid of their own individual pleasures that have nothing to do with you? Not fine.

(January 16, 2015 at 11:33 am)mainethinker Wrote: Hopefully someday people will be grown in pods without the want for sex.
so people can study space and time without sex getting in the way

Why would they want to study space and time though?
It is a Vulcan illusion to think that humanity can be dissociated from its primal instincts and still be human, or that anything is done for fundamentally rational reasons - there is no such thing, there are only rational conclusions from - fundamentally emotional or instinctive - motivations.

if we sent people to mars.. someone would end up going nuts and rapeing someone...

(January 16, 2015 at 11:39 am)mainethinker Wrote: if we sent people to mars.. someone would end up going nuts and rapeing someone...

uh... no. I don't think you understand how this works.