My guess would be that someone found a picture of a penis offensive, and complained. So RW Towers, who mostly leave the forum to get on with it have to act.
Why a picture of a penis (not even an erect penis) should cause offense is not clear to me.
If you are worried that your children will see it, then supervise their computer use. They will very easily find much more shocking images!
Clearly it is about context though. I don't think penises (erect or otherwise) are that attractive, but they're not intrinsically offensive. But I don't think I'd be that impressed clicking on a thread about something else on a running forum and finding myself contemplating a picture of a huge flaccid cock.
I don't think it's so much about the image so much as the people who manage the website ca't be seen to be so lax about managing it that they let lots of rude imagery proliferate.
The US site occasionally had proper disgusting pics posted by trolls - not stuff you'd want your mum to see.
Horses featured, and I'm not talking in the sense of Findus lasagne.
I'd like to know who these mystery posters are that keep complaining about "offensive" threads. Not that I'm convinced they exist, I think it's moderator censorship.
But OK RW if that's your bag, why don't you do what other forum moderators do and just delete the "offensive" posts?
TBH, we don't know why it was deleted. It could be because someone objected to the picture or becuase someone objected to the whole discussion.
Unless RW Towers decide to tell us we will never know. I just hope that they didn't delete it just because one person complained and they actually considered the content of the whole thread first.
Anyway, I think that the photo was highly offensive, and as people have already pointed out, there may well be children looking at this site.
You really haven't got any kids... A child would just call it something silly and move on with their life, it's only sad hung up adults who have a problem with their sexuality...
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Well that's how I see it MP. Perhaps we should question why a non-erect penis is deemed offensive when female breasts, in general, are not.
Personally I don't find any part of the human anatomy offensive.
I am presuming the posting of a picture of a giant penis is all about context then ?
Which the one above is - interestingly enough....
So this would be OK then Dave ?
So a drawing or a sculpture of a penis is fine but not a real one? Why?
Come on RW - you can't have it both ways, cazz this thread or provide an explanation.
My guess would be that someone found a picture of a penis offensive, and complained. So RW Towers, who mostly leave the forum to get on with it have to act.
Why a picture of a penis (not even an erect penis) should cause offense is not clear to me.
If you are worried that your children will see it, then supervise their computer use. They will very easily find much more shocking images!
i agree with Wilkie about its not up to this forum to monitor kids use.......
and also agree that they would have removed it due to the fact it must have been reported......
Clearly it is about context though. I don't think penises (erect or otherwise) are that attractive, but they're not intrinsically offensive. But I don't think I'd be that impressed clicking on a thread about something else on a running forum and finding myself contemplating a picture of a huge flaccid cock.
PS: it wasn't me that complained though!
it wasn't that big
in that case I'd probably be even less impressed.
The US site occasionally had proper disgusting pics posted by trolls - not stuff you'd want your mum to see.
Horses featured, and I'm not talking in the sense of Findus lasagne.
However all the above not withstanding, I do find this large penis highly offensive !
I'd like to know who these mystery posters are that keep complaining about "offensive" threads. Not that I'm convinced they exist, I think it's moderator censorship.
But OK RW if that's your bag, why don't you do what other forum moderators do and just delete the "offensive" posts?
Genius or lazy...
TBH, we don't know why it was deleted. It could be because someone objected to the picture or becuase someone objected to the whole discussion.
Unless RW Towers decide to tell us we will never know. I just hope that they didn't delete it just because one person complained and they actually considered the content of the whole thread first.
What's Pink, Hard, about 6 inches long and will get a thread deleted??
Lost for words DF?
I thought they got rid of the HTML stuff ages ago - I remember we had great fun playing with that, making posts look like they came from someone else
Did I miss something?
You really haven't got any kids... A child would just call it something silly and move on with their life, it's only sad hung up adults who have a problem with their sexuality...
Exactly!
Gah!!!