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

[Zorra]

124. For what it's worth...

I've been thinking about this a whole lot. And this is how I feel about this issue...

1) I see nothing inherently ethically or morally wrong with posting these images in our group.

2) From my POV, both the female and male forms are uniquely beautiful. While I do object to many forms of objectification, I don't see the posting of these images as potentially damaging to impressionable minds within or from within the context/relative confines of our Group.

3) Illogical and artificial religious, cultural, and societal mores should not be perpetuated. As LGBT individuals and as an LGBT community, we have long been vicitimized in every way due to unreasonable institutionalized bigotry based on various widely held superstitions, and there is no reason for members of our Group to be limited in their choices based on any unreasonable artificial mores that have arisen from superstitions.

4) Simply out of respect for anyone who, for any reason, may be offended by images of the human body, it would be a nice gesture on our part if the subject line in the OP of all threads containing the types of images in question were labeled with an appropriate notice of content.

5) Hard core pornography could exceed the limits of reasonable ethical standards, and would probably violate DU rules, and from my POV the policy most beneficial for our Group would be for everyone to voluntarily refrain from posting hard core pornography.

This is just my two cents worth, based on my perspective as a host serving our Group.