Removal of Photographs

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Actual or simulated:
(A) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
(B) bestiality;
(C) masturbation;
(D) sadistic or masochistic abuse; or
(E) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person.

The above is quoted from the Literotica guidelines.
I have had photos removed that showed my erect penis with a little semen oozing out.

Discounting A) as I was clearly on my own and B) for obvious reasons (unless they're saying my cock is a 'beast' lol) I'll move swiftly onto C). How can you depict masturbation with a 'still' photograph? Surely masturbation requires movement of the hand, implement or genitals or all three to qualify as masturbation and how can one display such movement with a 'still'.
D) How can one determine from a photograph depicting sadist or masochist behaviour if 'abuse' has taken place? Sadism and masochism is surely a form of controlled, consensual abuse. That's the point!!!!!
E) What is lascivious exhibition? Who decides upon it? What is the legal definition? Where are the guidelines? Why does the site let people waste their time posting pics when we cannot make an informed judgement on what is and what isn't allowed.

And finally, the posting rules carry a disclaimer stating that such is the proliferation of posts, pics that the moderators cannot view them all. Therefore, if that disclaimer is legal, they rely on 'informers' to tell them about inappropriate posts. Who are the informers? If they are offended by such posts/pics then surely they are on the wrong site!

Hopefully somebody can help me out with these questions. Maybe I'm being unreasonable but if this censorship is the future of Literotica then I'm outtahere :confused:
 
Obviously nobody gives a fuck so I'll quietly fuck off. It's been emotional. Take care all.
 
Back again even though I said I'd do one. It appears from a quick scan of various threads that masturbation or lascivious exhibitions only refers to men. Are the moderators being discriminatory?
 
I don't think they are being discriminatory. I have had several of my pics removed and as a rule I almost never post masturbating pics or what you would term "lewd and lacivious". I haven't done a full inventory of my pics yet, but I have noticed that some very tasteful pics that I recently posted are gone and I was semi clothed in them not totally nude. Who knows what the bottom line is on the picture removals? I sure have not heard of a decent explanantion and I'm not sure I will ever hear one at this point.

How long will it be before our AVs start getting yanked I wonder?
 
We all need to take an interest in this issue as it truly effects the overall "health" (for lack of better word) of the Am Pics board. I don't know if I want to spend the time posting my pics if they are going to turn around and pull them off. At this point I am enjoying it, but soon it will become a chore and chores have never been really really enjoyable have they?
 
Sweet_emOcean said:
I don't think they are being discriminatory. I have had several of my pics removed and as a rule I almost never post masturbating pics or what you would term "lewd and lacivious". I haven't done a full inventory of my pics yet, but I have noticed that some very tasteful pics that I recently posted are gone and I was semi clothed in them not totally nude. Who knows what the bottom line is on the picture removals? I sure have not heard of a decent explanantion and I'm not sure I will ever hear one at this point.

How long will it be before our AVs start getting yanked I wonder?


Same with mine. I've had pictures disappear that exposed barely any body parts. And I have many left that show much more. I don't have any of the truly hard core pictures on my thread, yet, I've had quite a few pictures just vanish.

I don't think we can or should assume that they are being removed in a systematic way. It all seems very random and has little to do with the content of the picture.
While it is annoying to post them and find they have been removed, I truly don't think it's a matter of selection for removal.

I would love it if those that can figure out how to repair the glitch-if that's what it is-would find time to do so. Understandably, it's probably not a high priority for them, but it would be nice for this to be addressed.
 
Sweet_emOcean said:
...I don't know if I want to spend the time posting my pics if they are going to turn around and pull them off. At this point I am enjoying it, but soon it will become a chore and chores have never been really really enjoyable have they?


well said.
 
I saw somewhere yesterday that something happened and alot of pics were randomly lost last week.

I don't think the mods/admins re that active here, based on their post counts. for the most part i've gotten the feeling the "rules" are there for liability purposes only.
 
Honestly, I have been trying to figure out WHAT exactly the point of the "rules" are. I am beging to think that they really only serve to allow mods to delete pics they dont like while being a simple C.Y.A for the forum owners. Doubtful that the rules are actually serving any other useful service seeing how people are still posting pics of intercourse and all that jizz jazz daily.
 
Seems to be pretty random. I've had some that might violate the "rules" vanish and others that clearly don't violate them disappear. Just in the last 24 hours in fact. My guess is some glitch. But I could be wrong. Sadly, the mods don't appear to be talking.
 
Well well.....is this the government working here...LOL......I'd hate to say something and next thing I know I can't log on or my credit cards no longer work...LOL.j/k. Anyhow. Isn't the whole point of this part of the forum to give people the opportunity to express themselves an anyway that they seem fit or comfortable with? I'm under the impression that everyone that is posting pictures is doing so on their own will. When people log into this part of the forum, they have some idea of what they are getting into, so whats the big deal. Let people express themselves with the freedom they choose to do.
 
Vandren said:
Seems to be pretty random. I've had some that might violate the "rules" vanish and others that clearly don't violate them disappear. Just in the last 24 hours in fact. My guess is some glitch. But I could be wrong. Sadly, the mods don't appear to be talking.

I agree. :confused:
 
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