A picture of tits or a discussion on suicide?

I recently posted in a thread on suicide where someone raised the question
"how is this right that I cannot post a picture of a womans tits, but people in this thread can talk about the spirituality of suicide, surely if children should not see tits they should not be able to read how to kill themselves and about how it doesnt matter if you commit suicide because you will go to heaven"

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2880036&postcount=208

Well I have to say I have an opinion that does not conflict with the idea there but would ask this:
If a forum touts itself as a "free speech forum" does that mean also a free "visual forum" After all whatever I post is a product of my mind.
If I post a picture of some tits - why is that different to declaring in words that I like looking at tits? A discussion on the relative beauty of a womans breasts is surely no different to posting a series of pictures.

 

actualy, in a way it makes alittle sence, free speach should be freely availible toall, & i've recentlyfound out that some software used in libraries & other public net access sites is blocking access to hipforums due to "pornographic content"..i'm not saying iagree one wayor the other, just offering possible explanations
i personaly believe, infcidental nuddity, especialy in discusions of nudist lifestyles falls under the free speech aspect, but when it comes tothe point of a buncha ppl just comming here to jerkoff all day it threattens the free speach & slowly puches the site intothe porn arena..its not hard to find tits online is it? but the more tits on the site, the harder it may be to access the site for true road hippies who can only log on from libraries or public access sites

 

But really the question is whether a picture of a normal womans breast - not a pouty mouth glamour girl from a sex site - posted on a forum should be seen as worse than a thread about ways to commit suicide and making suicide seem ok to do - and a good thing, or a trivial matter. How do you say that a pair of breasts is harmful but a methodology for suicide is not?

 

like isaid iwasnt agreeing or disagreeing, only offering possible reasons
also the more nudityonthe site the more we may attract people whoarent interested in free speech but free porn
personalyi have no probs withnudity..iactualyenteered this thread thoughcause ithought it maybe was about a different issue ive noticed here..inthe past there have been people discussing important things, like contemplating suicide, or other heavy subjects, & certain idiots would jumpintothe thread all upset because it distracted them from looking at breasts
nudityis fine untill its allyou care about & care more about seeing tits then someones health happiness & yes life

 

Sounds like a plan!

 

I think that the ban on tits at this site has as much to do with some legal bullshit handed down by certain governments as anything. And there is a section in which tit pictures are okay, in fact the same section has close up pictures of other bits of anatomy as well.

 

Snyfin youre a rebel - you know that tho !

Maybe the people who talk about suicide would not feel so bad if there were lots of breasts to look at.

 

i'm so glad i wandered in here

 

has anyone ever committed suicide by breasts? do you just get smothered to death or mothered to death?

 

laws are not based upon any rational view of morality but given birth to by many and complex factors, often quite venal and biased. they are things that exist.

there is certainly NOTHING wrong with immages of brests. only of posting them where innocent webmasters might get in trouble for their being.

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I think the problem over showing titties is part of the generally screwed up nature of the culture in which we live.
Myself, I can't figure out why here in the UK our most popular tabloid working class newspaper, the Sun, carries every day it's 'page 3 girl' in a gorgeously topless format. Any kid can go buy it from a newsagent shop.
It just seems ridiculous to me that you could be censored in a so called hippy forum for showing breasts - or indeed, vaginas even.

 

"I think the problem over showing titties is part of the generally screwed up nature of the culture in which we live." - Blackbillblake

That hits the nail on the head. Its the cultural beliefs of the people. In many other cultures around the world, for women to go topless is totally normal and is not viewed in a sexual way. In the past, to the more puritanical cultures, showing a womans uncovered legs was practically pornographic. In legal terms of sexual discimination though, a web site shouldn't be able to show a man with his shirt off unless it can show a woman with her shirt off.