Pregnancy, NSFW image Options

[Shalom]

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?

[everyking]

It's not that the picture is inappropriate, it's just gratuitous. Images should strike the right balance between informative value and cultural acceptability. If you decrease the acceptability of the presentation, you effectively decrease the informative value because you deter some people from reading the article. If an image is shocking, or just even causes you to raise an eyebrow, it probably shouldn't be prominently featured.

[carbuncle]

It's not that the picture is inappropriate, it's just gratuitous. Images should strike the right balance between informative value and cultural acceptability. If you decrease the acceptability of the presentation, you effectively decrease the informative value because you deter some people from reading the article. If an image is shocking, or just even causes you to raise an eyebrow, it probably shouldn't be prominently featured.

I'm generally opposed to the gratuitous use of nudity on WP, but in this instance I don't find the image gratuitous at all. This image is in context and is not overtly eroticized (although that is really up to the mind of the beholder).

That said, I don't understand why so many people on WP are so vehemently opposed to some kind of tagging system that would enable users to block content (something like a placeholder that says "this image contains nudity - click here to display it" or some such).

[CharlotteWebb]

That said, I don't understand why so many people on WP are so vehemently opposed to some kind of tagging system that would enable users to block content (something like a placeholder that says "this image contains nudity - click here to display it" or some such).

I think there's a strong assumption that viewers who find boobs offensive will find dozens of other things offensive as well.

In fact it's probably true in most cases.