This may not last, but...

[seebs]

I made a forum for NSFW topics. ("NSFW" == Not Safe For Work, aka porn and explicit sex.)

I don't know whether it'll be either useful or viable. It's intended to be sort of a corollary to the Yeah I Went There forum; a place to split off things that turn overly sexual.

I am not sure how we'll feel about this, or what limits will get imposed. Unlike YIWT, it's not closed to new threads; adults can, in theory, discuss sex.

I do not view this as being a good forum for picking fights. I do not think the discussion of whether something's immoral needs to be particularly explicit, and I think discussions that have to do with sex don't need to turn into debates about whether it's morally okay or not. Just my initial thoughts.

[imported_flesh99]

I am actually opposed to NSFW material. While I am not aiming for kid friendly I am opposed to pornography on multiple grounds. I will post in the thread concerning the topic after I get home from work.

[seebs]

That may turn out to be persuasive, in which case, we may just prefer to delete such posts, but I don't like that much either.

There's a broad range of "NSFW". Plain old discussions among adults are often over that line for a lot of workplaces.

[seebs]

Hmm. A few things to think about as possible cases, to evaluate what we think might be reasonable:

* "Your favorite position" thread -- always popular.
* Discussions of comfort zones or things related; e.g., "my boyfriend wants to tie me up, this bugs me" or "how do I get my boyfriend interested in..." things.
* Detailed discussion related to trying to get pregnant. (Might involve fairly explicit discussion of some bits of anatomy.)

If people want sex counseling, is that something we can provide within our view of our mission? I have NO CLUE.

[gomichan]

I am very much in favor of there being a place for such discussions.

I'm also very much in favor of the raunchy stuff being split out of non-raunchy discussions.

Some people are very uncomfortable with discussions of sexuality, whether serious or light, and other people have things about sexuality that they really need to discuss. The people who need to talk about it should be safe to do so here; I'd really hate for this to have the problem CF does, where you can't bring up the details of an issue in your marriage without risking a public shaming. But I'd also hate for folks to have it shoved in their faces when they're trying to talk about something unrelated.

So an NSFW forum which is open to new threads and also receives off-topic splits from other subforums looks like the best solution to me.

[ravenscape]

It sounds workable to me.