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Federico wrote:

Shaker wrote:Surely there are specific examples you have in mind?

I'll give you a few specific ones, but the general attitude of the RDF staff -- certainly under orders to do so -- was to be rigidly censorious towards the showing of innocent pictures of naked children and adults

There was a knee-jerk reaction to all sorts of related topics. I seem to remember a thread where an argument emerged about whether paedophilia and homosexuality could both just be called human sexual orientations and the powers-that-be immediately closed it down. My argument was that neither of them could be considered "illnesses" because neither had any hope of a "cure". I got the distinct impression that somebody in the admin team (or above, I don't know) was not able to cope with discussions of this sort occuring. I was left mystified as to whether the objection was to the idea that paedophilia couldn't be considered an "illness" or whether it was to the idea that homosexuality was an "illness."