Babe and hunk threads - what are they?

[Loppan Torkel]

A simple question - Does their content classify as porn in your mind? Yes or No?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

No. Just google porn if you are unsure what porn is.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

You mean there's a definite and absolute definition what porn is?

 

[Kozmos]

Eye/penis candy.

 

[SuperJay]

Oddly enough, yes, the word "pornography" has a definition.

 

[civ_king]

The babe thread leans more towards porn than the hunk thread, the hunk thread is more about dudes who are muscular are dress well

 

[Wolfbeckett]

I use a simple criteria to judge:

Picture gets moderated? Porn.

Picture does not get moderated? Not porn.

Easy peasy.

 

[sophie]

The babe thread is no more porn than Maxim Magazine is.

 

[civ_king]

I use a simple criteria to judge:

Picture gets moderated? Porn.

Picture does not get moderated? Not porn.

Easy peasy.

no, that's soft-core vs. hard-core

 

[tycoonist]

Soft core porn is just pretty people. I have no objection.

But then again, I have no objection to naked pretty people either.

 

[bombshoo]

You mean there's a definite and absolute definition what porn is?

No, but Potter Stewart knows it when he sees it.

 

[LucyDuke]

They're not porn. They're not explicit enough. If there's no visible genitalia or simulated (or real) sex act depicted then I don't think you've got porn. (It takes more than genitalia or sex to make porn, they're necessary but not sufficient.)

 

[innonimatu]

A simple question - Does their content classify as porn in your mind? Yes or No?

Yeah, it's porn all right. Now don't spoil one of the few good things on that front in this excessively puritanical forum. And you're not going to change the forum rules by pointing out how absurd they may be - it's just in live with the overall absurdity of american culture, apparently. Only breasts, penis and vaginae count as porn here. I once got an infraction for linking to a picture of one of Coubert's paintings (guess witch one)!

 

[Kyriakos]

The babe thread is not porn, not even soft porn since that seems to require (partial) nudity.
I doubt anyone uses it as porn either.

 

[GenMarshall]

It's not porn, if they were the mods would not let the threads exist.

 

[EnglishCrusader]

They're not porn. They're not explicit enough. If there's no visible genitalia or simulated (or real) sex act depicted then I don't think you've got porn. (It takes more than genitalia or sex to make porn, they're necessary but not sufficient.)

The babe thread is not porn, not even soft porn since that seems to require (partial) nudity.
I doubt anyone uses it as porn either.

I agree with these posts. As long as they aren't fully nude then I don't think that they classify as porn.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I think bumcheeks classify as OK as long as you can't see their growler.

 

[innonimatu]

The babe thread is not porn, not even soft porn since that seems to require (partial) nudity.
I doubt anyone uses it as porn either.

If it's not porn, what is it then? A fashion thread? A "guess whose picture this is" thread? What other purpose could it have but being porn? You don't have to jack off to a photo for it to be porn.

In any case, the american legislators accept the use of semi-naked or insinuating photos for advertisement purposes - bless their greedy corporatist hearts - therefore they made them acceptable for public dissemination also. There's something good about the advertisement industry, amazing as it may seem. But the reason those photos are used is that they are aesthetically pleasing, and the reason we find them aesthetically pleasing is rooted on sexual instincts - don't deny it. Therefore they're porn.

Ah, now it's me supplying ammunition for any self-censoring brigade on this forum to do the "good work" for the moral police. Whatever, I don't care, it's not as if the Internet isn't awash with porn elsewhere. Hell, people are making and uploading their own by the millions!

 

[EnglishCrusader]

If it's not porn, what is it then? A fashion thread? A "guess whose picture this is" thread?What other purpose could it have but being porn? You don't have to jack off to a photo for it to be porn.

It's a babe thread. It's for looking at people who members here think are babes, porn is for if you're alone in the house and bored

 

[ParadigmShifter]

If you can sell something, and still have it after selling, isn't that capitalism at its finest?