(12-22-2013, 03:50 PM)C Wrote: It's funny, in a not-so-funny sort of way, that the issue of tagging threads came up because of the suggestion of erotic purpose in a thread. Meanwhile, we've had threads down in Town Square with detailed depictions of murder, theft, torture, vengeance and slavery, none of which prompted this discussion.
There's a quote from George RR Martin that I think is really appropriate here:
Quote:“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.â€
Indeed. On my community's forum, we require anything concerning sensitive topics (so all of what you mentioned and then some) are wrapped in spoiler-tags, not just exclusively sex. Heck, I'm the type of person who'd rather read an erotic novel than an intense description of someone smashing a brain.. And with the spoiler hiding things, we also do not hinder people's creative abilities to have exactly what they want happening in their rp-related stories.
