NO!!, But generally I am sitting on the Fence ... Naked. (Erotic Category)

Member Name: sidneygee

Product:	Erotic Category
Date:	02/11/01 (264 review reads)
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Advantages: Freedom

Disadvantages: Difficult to police, Will upset many Dooyooers

NO!!, But generally I am sitting on the Fence, and I just might be naked ...

Now there's an image to conjure with. Me (or one of the more sexy DooYooers - but leave my nieces out of your fantasies !) sitting naked (naturally) on a pointed paling fence. OOOOoh the agony !!! (or ooooooh the ecstasy (if you are THAT way inclined).

I should even tell you all non-Guides a little secret. That there is one of the DooYoo peeps who 'claim' to type on OpCom "naked" (pity about the "No Naming - No Shaming" policy ...). I am also certain that alkaliguru does it ALL the time. Following the imagery of the great Spike Milligan in 'Puckoon', I can visualise alkaliguru walking with the aid of at least one stick because of a a history of ... Oh dear, this is in danger of being one of my 'booling-on' ops. So stop THAT at once, Sidney !!!

Now I'm not the world's most fastidious guy, and I used to be a regular visitor to one of yesidoo's watering hole in Derbyshire in the mid 1960's, 'The Cock Inn', where every Wednesday night there was a good honest (100%) Strippers night. That was the LEWDEST place I have ever been. Cost I think it was 10 bob to 'go in', and probably not a lot more to ... (well you can guess the rest)... And I have occasionaly 'seen' a number of the top shelf magazines and I have been to 'stag nights' with Strippers and 'Lap Dancers' and with 'blue videos'.

In all honesty I have enjoyed the Malt and the company and the 'crack' (don't be silly, you know what I mean) much more than the sight of those groaning bodies, mostly exaggerated or deformed/freaky in ALL departments - well at least, I hope so otherwise my personal accoutrements are shamefully inadequate.

And even before that, when I was a grubby and (very smutty) early teenager schoolboy, we would play a gruesome game when walking
home from school. We would troll down the road in a row abreast (6 to 8 of us). We would then character-assassinate someone - either someone in the news, in the school, in the town or even some literary character. One of us would say something, then the next along the line would follow it up. Each comment had to be more filthy more lewd and more degrading than the previous one. If you were 'lost for words' you would spit into the gutter, and then start a line 3 steps behind. Complete outbreaks of abuse, out of turn, was met by a whole chorus of NO !!!

Then we would all spit, and the miscreant would be pushed to the row behind. You just had to 'advance by a little' in your smuttiness.

Usually it ended up with myself and a character called 'Skembo' in the ‘front row’, but before we went our separate ways, I could normally guarantee a loud "Hawk" of submission from Skembo and a 'mouthful of greenies' would be expelled into the gutter. Horrid little toerags we were ...

And if you heard what we said about lovely little 'frannyfortune' then in the S3 class of the Girls' Grammar School..... (No not the DooYoo one - a nice BIG redhead that I 'knew' in my youth - but she was subject for discussion long before I 'knew' her...).

SO ! OK I am no prude, and I hope my credentials are established and thus you might expect me to be totally 100% in favour of any sort of erotica section to "tickle my fancy" on occasions.

But no, I am in fact very much one of those who think "There is a time and a place for everything" and DooYoo is not the appropriate place, IMHO.

In the same way, if I go into the (posh) George Hotel bar in Edinburgh, I don't expect to be surrounded by loud, laughing Kilties singing and belching (little difference in some cases) and playing fiddles or whistles. But if I go into 'The Royal Oak
9; or 'Sandy Bells' - well if there is none of that nonsense going on, I will say to the barsteward - "Very Quiet tonight ... er ... Where's the action ?"

Now, I recall auldmac complaining on one occasion that one of his opinions which was about 'sex' (and very "smutty", I have no doubt) had been removed, so that I was very pleased when Sexy Kay started giving out some very risqué opinions which hasve, shall we say, at least a touch of eroticism about them. I was ready to complain vociferously if her opinions were deleted by the Puritan Op-meisters. Thankfully they were not, but I for one would not wish to see any further 'relaxation' in the policy.

The thought has always occurred to me that what is one man's erotica is anothers' pornography, and I am certain that the same will apply to the ladies among us. Thus if there was a dedicated 'erotica' category, then I believe that objective policing by Jo Starr would be totally impossible. I would think that the only way to even try to do that effectively would be NOT to allow any opinion to be posted without moderation and to have each opinion to be reviewed by at least two moderators. And who would have the time to do that in the current financial climate at Dooyoo ?

Without such moderation, I feel that so many very decent people would get driven away from the site or would not ever have started. For example, take two specific DooYooers. I have had major differences of opinion with both these contributors, but I still regard them as 'friends' and have respect for them - docspock and maidmarion. I feel convinced that neither of these characters (along with many othars) would have made an appearance, and DooYoo would be a poorer place without such a broad variety of opinionators.

OK, along with everyone else I know all about the moaning about declining revenues on DooYoo and there are so many who might
say "Well if it allows the site to survive ...". But think ahead to the consequences. How long before we have smut-mongering pop-ups (!) appearing all over the site (a la Nokia) ?

The mind (and possibly various bodily parts) boggle don’t they ? Read the opinions about Hot Mail and the amount of porn that people complain about appearing in their inboxes. One of our neighbours (a VERY po-faced Catholic) was really upset to see what his 15 years’ old son was downloading as a result of Hot mail links.

Don’t let Dooyoo stoop this low, please. Once the process has started, then the promises of filthy lucre is bound to cloud the judgement of the Marketing bods @DooYoo.eu.

I believe that the site and existing and future members would lose far more than what they might think they would gain. IMHO, it would be the fat cats who might gain, but by restricting access by those who avoid sites that can give rise to 'erotica', then in the lonegr term, I cannot see the benefit lasting.

And as for deducting any miles earned by this opinion when the subject matter is closed. Well, how to pi** everyone off in one easy lesson. I shall be using this as an example of 'poor practice' in my Consultancy/training modules.

Right ! Heather, have you polished up the chinstraps and the **********’s after the Saturday night git-together ?

Din't Bin Laden burn well on 3rd November .....

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© Sidneygee 2001

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