# Frank, enough with you Pilgrim ethics!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2006, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892 "2006-08-31T07:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/1 "2006-08-31T07:56:16Z")
You closed [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=386235) thread? Dude so fucking what if the whole front page is covered with sex questions? As long as they all aren’t asking the same question; who cares? And furthermore… Eh, thats all I got. I’m going to stop now because I promised myself I’d never pit a mod. They do a fine job around here it’s just that this one got under my skin. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/2 "2006-08-31T08:34:59Z")
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**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/3 "2006-08-31T09:38:03Z")
What are those squirrels doing in there, spoiling all that wonderful sex? :dubious: I have to say, though, that I was surprised at that closure. Maybe we aren’t Penthouse, but to arbitrarily close a thread simply because there happen to be too many threads on the topic seems a little, well, arbitrary. People want to share sex stories, let 'em, say I. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/4 "2006-08-31T11:21:40Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] What are those squirrels doing in there, spoiling all that wonderful sex? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Eh, they’re just there for the nuts. 😃 I was mildly annoyed by the sex-purge, too. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/5 "2006-08-31T11:25:39Z")
Everybody wants to fill the Dope with silly sex threads And what’s wrong with that? I’d like to know Cause here I go Again ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/6 "2006-08-31T11:25:46Z")
What a prude. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/7 "2006-08-31T11:27:13Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] Eh, they’re just there for the nuts. 😃 [/QUOTE] _snerk_ Ah, hap-penis is a bad pun. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/8 "2006-08-31T11:44:49Z")
Speaking of forplay… What’s wrong with a kiss, boy? Hmm? Why not start her off with a nice kiss? … You don’t have to go leaping straight for the clitoris like a bull at a gate. Give her a kiss, boy. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/9 "2006-08-31T11:51:13Z")
That’s not a pun, it’s a play on words. The latter may be truly clever; the former virtually never. It seems to me the thread in question was entirely in keeping with the idea of fighting ignorance; an honest question was asked about the human experience, and folks were offering their own experience and insight. Unless somebody started inserting hotlinks to Swedish “Aunt Peggy” videos from the 1970s, I don’t see a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/10 "2006-08-31T13:07:22Z")
I agree. Either make a rule about no sex threads or leave the damn things alone. Closing one just because there are too many of them (in your eyes) is arbitrary. And don’t make a rule about no sex threads. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/11 "2006-08-31T13:27:31Z")
Wait. so the clitoris looks like a bull? Or a gate? No wonder I can’t find the fucking thing. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/12 "2006-08-31T13:31:01Z")
Yeah, especially when the front page of the Dope website currently mentions the baad word SEX in two different places. OMG, think of the chiillddrreennnnnn… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/13 "2006-08-31T13:37:25Z")
He also closed [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=385719), saying that the thread had run its course, twelve minutes after somebody else had posted in it… ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/14 "2006-08-31T13:43:02Z")
I was irked by this as well. It does seem a little arbitrary. I don’t think any of the threads violated the rules, did they? ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/15 "2006-08-31T13:45:22Z")
Also in the front page, A Cecil Classic: Did Renaldus Columbus discover the clitoris in 1559? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/16 "2006-08-31T13:47:26Z")
maybe **Frank** just needs to get laid. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/17 "2006-08-31T13:55:12Z")
He should have sailed with Columbus in 1559 then… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/18 "2006-08-31T14:18:25Z")
One of the things about power is the need to use it wisely. Most of the time, wisely=sparingly. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/19 "2006-08-31T14:23:44Z")
Eh. Closing that thread is certainly arbitrary, but I can’t seem to get too worked up that now we only have six threads (on the first page) to discuss sex in. For the record: Foreplay? HELLS YEAH!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892/20 "2006-08-31T14:26:31Z")
After i read the OP, i clicked on the link, thinking “Surely there’s no way he closed it _just_ because there were too many other sex threads. There must be some other reason.” But no, that’s exactly what happened. Very poor judgment. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-enough-with-you-pilgrim-ethics/370892.md?page=2)