# What should the bounds be for Sexual topics on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 13, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943 "2004-05-13T12:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/21 "2004-05-13T16:36:24Z")
If the thread hadn’t been locked, it would be full of trolls (and socks of trolls) who had wailed away at their own posts and all the attention they attracted. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/22 "2004-05-13T17:16:14Z")
I find the closing of sex threads to be rather arbitrary. Just leave 'em all open. I don’t see the harm. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/23 "2004-05-13T19:34:16Z")
heh heh heh…he said “open” ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/24 "2004-05-13T19:36:00Z")
I can recall many threads here that I’ve participated in, rather explicitly describing oral sex techniques, or the results of said techniques on my partners, and apparently creating warm tingly feelings in approximately half of the audience. And sending quite a few of the other half off to find their wives or girlfriends to give it a try… And never got one complaint, warning, or even a sidways glance. So, I too find the enforcement here rather inconsistent. I say, pick your forums… the threads I recall were all in MPSIMS, if I recall correctly… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/25 "2004-05-14T02:08:36Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > It’s frankly quite amazing that any post on the SDMB would be sexually arousing in any way — even if the poster were a young, nubile princess, reading as she writhes quietly in a bath of rose water, the droplets clinging to her nimble, buoyant breasts until they fall away into rivulets that trickle down the curves of her tight, bronze body, gathering in a warm, shallow pool at her navel, where her finger teases them as she giggles, bites her swollen red lip, and shares her morning fantasy with the world. Would you like a tissue with that post? 😃 I thought that a thread dedicated to revealing the sexual fantasies some posters have about other posters could be be embarassing, and maybe even humiliating, for some people. Yes, we have had suggestive threads before, but they were usually limited to people talking about their own bodies, or the young, nubile bodies of princesses writhing quietly in a bath of rose wa…uh, to get back on topic(damn you, Lib!), I didn’t think it very proper to start what could very well end up as a series of “Penthouse Forum” type posts. That, and the fact that, whenever threads like these are started, _my_ name is never brought up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/26 "2004-05-14T04:01:31Z")
Dear Cecil, I never thought it could happen to me, but one day I was browsing through a message board . . . ---
**Author:** ![cmason32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmason32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmason32)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/27 "2004-05-14T06:48:43Z")
I quote I once saw - don’t remember where, though. Could have been here. > [@](#): > > If your sexual fantasies were of interest to anyone else, they wouldn’t be fantasies. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943/28 "2004-05-14T11:37:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That, and the fact that, whenever threads like these are started, _my_ name is never brought up. 😉 Except in the context of “I hope doesn’t turn up and close this” 🙂 Lib: I wish I could make my username “a young, nubile princess, reading as she writhes quietly in a bath of rose water” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-bounds-be-for-sexual-topics-on-the-sdmb/244943.md?page=1)