I say, put it wherever, but it’s not too nasty for the Dope.
There’s no consistent approach to TMI on these boards. There are threads that get incredibly raunchy that go to hundreds of posts. Then there are threads that push a mod’s buttons wrong and shut down instantly.
I’m dealing with the sexuality of figure skating head on, and I don’t see what’s wrong with that. The pairs competition is a sexual dance, purposely and ostensibly. We’re supposed to think, “Ah, the beauty of it!” but in fact most of us hetero guys are thinking what the images demand: “Ah, some nice T&A, I’d hit that, and isn’t that quite a crotch flying through the air.”
There’s quite a gulf between admiring a flying crotch and expressing a desire to stick one’s nose in it and take a big whiff. I’ve objected to a number of thread closures on various grounds; this is not one of them. Good job, 'druid.
Look, I’ll be honest… I’ve admired the occasional female long jumper from a head on camera shot over the years in a way which I know was kinda inappropriate… hell I’m a guy, not a saint, but I also know that it’s not the sort of subject matter which I should engage other people in against their wishes.
It seems to me that to define figure skating in sexual terms is a form of objectification which is inappropriate in some way. Nothing personal there - just a different view point for you to consider.
There may be a “big” difference, but I still don’t see what’s wrong with it.
I’ve read threads here about prehensile rectums spraying shit particles all over a bathroom. I’ve read about blowjobs and masturbation. What’s so wrong with crotch-sniffing?
Haven’t you ever taken a big whiff, Q.E.D.. Of course you have–and you loved it!
Hell yes. But, you don’t see me starting threads about it, now do you? Some things really are better left unsaid. It’s one thing when it’s the guys shooting the bull around the water cooler, it’s another when it’s a public forum. IMO, it crossed a line that, like pornography, is difficult to define but I know it when I see it.
Maybe you’re a bit prudish. Release, don’t repress, your sexuality!
“I love pussy.” There, I said it. Where’s the lightning bolt?
Ah, but what about the other TMI threads on the SDMB? What is your theory of TMI on these boards?
Do you consider pr0n naughty, the forbidden fruit of the laptop screen?
I only said what approximately 9% of guys watching the pairs were thinking: I’d love to stick my face in that crotch. Of course, 95.8% of the guys were thinking about fucking the skaters, but pleasures vary by individual.
Not at all. I get into baudy discussions with the best of 'em.
Hell, so do I. But while that’s the essence of your thread, yes, the substance just crossed some undefinable line. Call it a visceral reaction. I can’t articulate it any better than that, or I would.
There’s TMI and there’s T. M. I. Your thread was the latter, IMO.
OK, it affected you in a certain way. Fair enough. But was it wrong? Compared to all the jackoff-technique threads, etc., that never get closed?
I think it was my unabashed love of pussy that did it. P-U-S-S-Y. No shame, no pussyfooting around, as it were.
In contrast, most raunch threads have a “hee-hee, ain’t this naughty” tone to them that gets them waved through. People are laughing and joking. I was serious.
Does the seriousness scare some?
I could see it being moved to MPSIMS. But so bad that you can’t move it anywhere? That’s interesting.
I really don’t care that it was closed. What arouses (pun) my curiousity, however, is the theory of TMI on this board, if it has one.
Q.E.D.
Is it really any worse than the How do gay people have sex? (TMI friendly) thread?
Why isn’t that just as offensive?
I think both are silly threads, as is this one. None really hurt anyone.
95.8% of the guys watching want to fuck either the chick or the dude, but the first sexual act they think of will vary by person (9% for crotch-sniffing, etc.).
Guess it depends on what you mean by “worse”. I didn’t find either thread offensive, as such, but the gay sex thread didn’t make me think “Well, that’s a bit much!” Of course, ask 99 people the same question and you’ll get 99 different answers.
One is a legitimate request for information concerning a realm in which most heterosexuals will never have any experience. The other is revelling in a big ol’ whiff of yeast-stank.
