Male erotica in the LGBT group: Why now? What's changed?

[Ms. Toad]

59. The question was raised by someone else.

I didn't raise it - but it has been something I have found mildly annoying. I hadn't shared that before, but since the question was asked I shared it in a single independent observation, then engaged in discussion in response to observations made by others. I hardly think that is making a mountain out of a molehill.

Whether you would mind if women put up similar threads isn't really the question, since I think that is unlikely to happen spontaneously (although it might well just to prove a point after this thread) - the question I am raising is whether the threads of men are making this group less inviting to parts of the LGBT community, and if they are does the group want to do anything about it.

Frankly, I'm a little bit surprised at a really major overreaction by one poster - and much milder reactions by others, but still defensive or offended that anyone really might not like the threads.

FWIW - I would have objections to skin threads in the Lounge because I don't like viewing people as sex objects. But the lounge isn't particularly my taste anyway so I'm not likely to run into them. And it doesn't have the same implications that it does in a smaller marginalized community which has struggled to integrate the voices of women, bis, and trans individuals.