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:]. And you need to recall that this is a global encyclopaedia. Your concerns about illegality may apply in some parts of the world, but not in others. Then there is the question of whether a picture explaining something that's already described in text is, firstly, pornography, and secondly, any different in effect from that text. ] (]) 23:04, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
:]. And you need to recall that this is a global encyclopaedia. Your concerns about illegality may apply in some parts of the world, but not in others. Then there is the question of whether a picture explaining something that's already described in text is, firstly, pornography, and secondly, any different in effect from that text. ] (]) 23:04, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
::Still doesn't mean it's not illegal. Unless there is proof showing that the pictures there are of people over the age of 18, I will making a visit to my local law enforcement office and the local FBI building to inquire about an investigation that will get this site shut down in the US. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 23:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
::Still doesn't mean it's not illegal. Unless there is proof showing that the pictures there are of people over the age of 18, I will making a visit to my local law enforcement office and the local FBI building to inquire about an investigation. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 23:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:::Legal threats are against the rules. You must either retract and disavow your threat, or it will be done for you AND you will be blocked from editing. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 23:29, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
:::Legal threats are against the rules. You must either retract and disavow your threat, or it will be done for you AND you will be blocked from editing. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 23:29, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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Pauska Sock (talk) 03:08, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Age?
Well I can only tell you about myself. When I was 5 years old, I went into hospital for a hernia operation and they stuck plasters over my penis, and I could not wank. I wanted to, but I could not. Then when I wanted to pee, I got the nurses to re-do the plastering for me. The nurses did not realize that males pee out of their penises. No... I could not believe it either and as I have said, I was only 5. Now I am well over 60 and still wanking. There you have it. Technut (talk) 18:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
No, a medical leaflet for teenagers published by the National Health Service says "an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away". By "orgasm" NHS means masturbation. A newspaper article about this leaflet is quoted in this Misplaced Pages article. Tgeorgescu (talk) 07:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Pictures
I entered this site to get to know about views on masturbation in history, and it felt weird to see enormous pictures of penises and clitorises. Maybe this article could be more on topic, and less about porno eyesore? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.254.182.158 (talk • contribs)
no sry ! some people are glad that their penises and pussys on wikipedia. They get horny and masturbate while thinking about how people read this article. And the people who prevent other users from removing the useless picture suffer from a mental illness. So really sry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.216.27.200 (talk • contribs)
I'm wondering if it is possible to create two pages for this article, a picture version and a picture-less version. I am not a prude, I like the text of this article and would like it to be freely read. Despite my lack of prudeness, I really can't get over how distracting the pictures are. I completely believe pictures are a necessary part of wikipedia, and even this article, but I would simply like to see a major editor give this some consideration. The picture version could even be the default, and a pictureless version offered at the beginning of the article. Or vice versa. Again, I am no prude and I do not find anything in this article disgusting, but I can't escape an extreme feeling of some form of voyeurism or something. Please, at least give this some thought. --Vgp0012 (talk) 06:45, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
I've moved some images to relevant sections and reduced their sizes per WP:IUP and MOS:IMAGES as larger sizes do nothing to help readers understand the article better, and also serve as potential distractions for editors like you. Besides, the pussy shots and dick close-ups are probably better quality than most of the images hosted in WP; reduced size doesn't reduce viewing quality. You can use external tools/WP gadgets to disable images on all or certain urls/articles, but creating 2 versions would be content-forking. - M0rphzone (talk) 10:43, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Yeah I too think some of the pictures should be deleted, including the first one. Teenagers probably come to this article often, and exposing pornography to minors is illegal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.194.3.109 (talk • contribs) 21:59, 13 January 2013
Misplaced Pages is not censored. And you need to recall that this is a global encyclopaedia. Your concerns about illegality may apply in some parts of the world, but not in others. Then there is the question of whether a picture explaining something that's already described in text is, firstly, pornography, and secondly, any different in effect from that text. HiLo48 (talk) 23:04, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Still doesn't mean it's not illegal. Unless there is proof showing that the pictures there are of people over the age of 18, I will making a visit to my local law enforcement office and the local FBI building to inquire about an investigation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.155.94 (talk) 23:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Legal threats are against the rules. You must either retract and disavow your threat, or it will be done for you AND you will be blocked from editing. ←Baseball Bugscarrots→ 23:29, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I just reverted an addition to the compulsive masturbation section that used this ref to make a point that orgasm leads to "a drug like dependency" on endorphins, which under that heading implied that this was related to compulsive masturbation. This is so wrong, on so many levels. Sure, the cited article is about endorphins and includes that phrase, but the rest of the connections were entirely WP:OR. --Nigelj (talk) 23:30, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Well, are you an expert? I'm not, but I don't think you can doubt that orgasm and the release of chemicals in the brain has to do with compulsive masturbation and/or sex addiction. Regardless, the quality and type of refs on this subject are quite poor, and I don't think there are many reliable sources available besides specific medical studies on this, which are few and far between. Have you found anything? - M0rphzone (talk) 09:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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Not done: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=416967#416967 isn't a reliable source. benzband (talk) 20:11, 2 November 2012 (UTC)