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Shalom
post Tue 24th August 2010, 5:57pm
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I was looking up the meaning of "Gravida 2, Para 1" on the internet yesterday. Wikipedia's article on Pregnancy came up, and I found the answer there almost immediately.

But to get there, I had to scroll down the first screen and view a NSFW photo of a naked pregnant woman. I was at "W". Fortunately nobody saw it, but I felt uncomfortable.

It's not as if I were searching for information about a sexually explicit subject (the classic example is "autofellatio"). We're talking about a very common, ordinary phenomenon. For crying out loud, Wikipedian nerds, can you have the decency to show a pregnant woman with her clothes on?
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Theanima
post Tue 24th August 2010, 6:59pm
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How exactly would cartoon drawings make any difference? They'd still show the same thing, but not as accurately as a photograph.

And besides, I'm tired of all these people who insist breasts are sexual organs. They're for babies for goodness sake. Their sexual connotation is as much the same as, say, feet (which many are turned on by, just like breasts).

If you in your workplace are required to look up terms related to pregnancy, it should be no surprise to the employer that you might come across a naked lady at some point.
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post Tue 24th August 2010, 7:17pm
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QUOTE(Theanima @ Tue 24th August 2010, 11:59am) *

And besides, I'm tired of all these people who insist breasts are sexual organs. They're for babies for goodness sake. Their sexual connotation is as much the same as, say, feet (which many are turned on by, just like breasts).


Well, here we disagree. Breasts in a non-pregnant woman ARE sexual organs. Some women have no more breasts when they aren't nursing than a dog or cat has. But these women are able to provide just as much milk when needed (this has actually been studied). That means that a breast for a woman who is not nursing, or preparing to, is NOT for babies. It's not needed.

So whence all that extra fatty tissue, which clearly isn't functional, occuring in some women with large breasts, who aren't pregnant or nursing? Well, they're secondary sexual characteristics, as, ermm, "advertised."

As is that glorious hair of a woman, which is of better quality usually than a man's. A fact recognized by some Muslim cultures, who require that it be covered up.

These things are mild stimulants, and are soon ignorable if you see them enough, like woman's bare ankles. But I'm pretty sure that nature hardwires some things to be more intrinsically stimulating visually than others. That female figure, for example. All the secondary characteristics that appear at puberty.



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Shalom   Pregnancy   Tue 24th August 2010, 5:57pm
A Horse With No Name   For crying out loud, Wikipedian nerds, can you hav...   Tue 24th August 2010, 6:00pm
dogbiscuit   I was looking up the meaning of "Gravida 2, ...   Tue 24th August 2010, 6:05pm
Shalom   [quote name='Shalom' post='249393' date='Tue 24th...   Tue 24th August 2010, 6:47pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='Shalom' post='249393' date='Tue 24t...   Tue 24th August 2010, 6:55pm
A Horse With No Name   Look, I'm not saying that a picture of a nake...   Tue 24th August 2010, 7:00pm
CharlotteWebb   But to get there, I had to scroll down the first ...   Tue 24th August 2010, 6:55pm
carbuncle   That's odd, I would have thought that this ima...   Tue 24th August 2010, 8:02pm
Milton Roe   That's odd, I would have thought that this im...   Tue 24th August 2010, 8:23pm
A Horse With No Name   That's odd, I would have thought that [url=ht...   Tue 24th August 2010, 8:25pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='carbuncle' post='249418' date='Tue 2...   Tue 24th August 2010, 8:46pm
everyking   It's not that the picture is inappropriate, it...   Tue 24th August 2010, 8:15pm
carbuncle   It's not that the picture is inappropriate, i...   Tue 24th August 2010, 8:50pm
CharlotteWebb   That said, I don't understand why so many peo...   Tue 24th August 2010, 9:30pm
Theanima   If an image is shocking, or just even causes you ...   Tue 24th August 2010, 9:41pm
everyking   If an image is shocking, or just even causes you...   Tue 24th August 2010, 10:15pm
taiwopanfob   If an image is shocking, or just even causes you...   Tue 24th August 2010, 11:11pm
Shalom   This discussion is going off track. At home, when ...   Wed 25th August 2010, 12:40am
dogbiscuit   This discussion is going off track. At home, when...   Wed 25th August 2010, 1:01am
anthony   The writers on Wikipedia, and I no longer number ...   Wed 25th August 2010, 1:04am
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