RE: Sexual Click Bait?
I agree with your response @dantheman I feel the picture was not obscene and for the girlfriend to see the picture and immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be some sort of sexual gimmick to gain money proves @sean-king point. There should be discussions about women, porn, and objectification that do not need to be put in the #nsfw category. And since the photo was original and the user is a real steemit user that in my mind changes the overall tone of the piece. Any time you cover topics that may be taboo, there will be a multitude of opinions. I think you did a great job and did not deserved to be downvoted for what you wrote and how you portrayed it.
Hopefully more "taboo" topics can be covered as I have seen religion show up in a series of posts and feel that steemit could be an interesting place for two opposing viewpoints to post about a topic (abortion, assisted suicide, death penalty) and have readers understand both viewpoints from the authors and be able to respectfully debate one another. At least talking about the topics without screaming, shouting, or hatred will be a vast improvement over anywhere else a topic like this could be covered.
With the new reputation system, it encourages people to be respectful, but not necessarily be pc. Steemit is amazing because we can all be ourselves and hopefully grow to love and care about others regardless of their beliefs and viewpoints.
I enjoy looking at things from a lot of angles. Not necessarily devil's advocate, but I see both pro con middle and in between and try to put myself in the shoes of how men and women may view this as much as I can.
yes totally true, but we have different angles maybe than our girlfriends when it comes to eye candy no?? ; - ) i think you and your girlfriend may not share the same sort of view point on this sort of content for obvious reasons !! But yes totally sure that a detailed and intelligent discussion on such matters is a great idea to alleviate such concerns affecting your couple !! i think like most real men, would put my girlfriends wishes before my own personal sexual impulses, which i think to be fair is what porn sites mainly feed off !! My last word is that this photo is certainly erotic and yes exciting but she is dressed so the rest is all in the mind !!
i think women especially those that we live with and tell that we love them are somewhat offended when they see perhaps an image of this nature on our desktop or browser !! It threatens them at many levels as i guess they realize that the man they love, feed and hold can at any time look at or even find and meet a newer brighter model ! Clearly the Internet and it extremely diverse search criteria permit a Pandorian box of possibilities for any male blessed with two eyes in his head and fingers with which to type his desired goal !! you can hardly blame them can you?
Absolutely not! I agree with you, but I feel like this is something you can explain to someone you love and have a meaningful talk about it. It's not like most people are sneaking to steemit for a fix or to "cheat" on their wife with pornography (if one believes that is cheating). But I also think it is important to have a discussion about and offer the option to turn off certain types of content that may not necessarily be considered nsfw.
well i never said that particularly it was a site like Steemit which is the problem, more like PornHub, much too much eye candy there for the tastes of most aspiring girlfriends no?