08-17-2012, 03:56 AM
I think it's well-known that I'm a fan of giving warning labels, especially in the case of under-18 Mpreg stories. I think it's safe to say that if we were to create a list of "Controversial Mpreg Topics," that even if it didn't make the numer one spot, it would still be right up there, especially since most (if not all) under-18 Mpreg stories out there indicate the pregnancy occured as a result of sex, usually gay sex (even if the sex itself is never described).
It's not without reason that people should be mindful of sexual activities involving those under the age of 18 (those of us in the U.S. are very aware of just why Penn State and its once-heralded football program has been in the news lately).
At the same time, if Lyric and the other mods start banning every fictional story that contains something that might be offensive to someone somewhere, pretty soon there'd be nothing left, and we might as well not even bother having an Mpreg Central website at all. (Hey, Mpreg stories containing tenticles or egg laying creep me out, but at the same time I'm not demanding that Lyric ban such stories.)
Yes, I'm having a bit of trouble seeing how simply allowing posting of certain types of stories is going to "promote" the idea that such activities are acceptable in real life. I have written several stories (including a few Mpreg stories) for another website, where there have been minors engaged in sexual activities. I've also read some of the other stories there (that were written by others), a lot of which involve describing sex involving minors, and yet I have never once felt any urges to go out and engage in sexual activities with minors.
True pedophiles don't need any encouragement from frictional stories to commit their crimes (just ask Jerry Sandusky), and I've never heard of anybody committing a sexual crime on anybody else, minor or adult, simply because of a story (I'm sure that there may have been cases of people committing sexual crimes in which their defense attornies have blamed in part of the perpatrator having read sexual stories or looked at porn prior to committing the crime, but I'm also sure that they haven't been able to prove that the crime would not have happened without the stories/porn - there would always be other factors involved that helped contribute).
(Similarly, I don't see how any automated webcrawler could scan a label like "15+" and know that it's a label on a story that might contain sexual conduct involving minors.)
I hope everyone understands that I'm not trying to bash anybody else's viewpoint here. Yes, some people are worried about any mention of sex involving under-18 people, even if those people are only fictional characters, and I would like to be the first to say that there's nothing wrong with that concern. I hope you will give others the chance to explain why they beg to differ.
It's not without reason that people should be mindful of sexual activities involving those under the age of 18 (those of us in the U.S. are very aware of just why Penn State and its once-heralded football program has been in the news lately).
At the same time, if Lyric and the other mods start banning every fictional story that contains something that might be offensive to someone somewhere, pretty soon there'd be nothing left, and we might as well not even bother having an Mpreg Central website at all. (Hey, Mpreg stories containing tenticles or egg laying creep me out, but at the same time I'm not demanding that Lyric ban such stories.)
Yes, I'm having a bit of trouble seeing how simply allowing posting of certain types of stories is going to "promote" the idea that such activities are acceptable in real life. I have written several stories (including a few Mpreg stories) for another website, where there have been minors engaged in sexual activities. I've also read some of the other stories there (that were written by others), a lot of which involve describing sex involving minors, and yet I have never once felt any urges to go out and engage in sexual activities with minors.
True pedophiles don't need any encouragement from frictional stories to commit their crimes (just ask Jerry Sandusky), and I've never heard of anybody committing a sexual crime on anybody else, minor or adult, simply because of a story (I'm sure that there may have been cases of people committing sexual crimes in which their defense attornies have blamed in part of the perpatrator having read sexual stories or looked at porn prior to committing the crime, but I'm also sure that they haven't been able to prove that the crime would not have happened without the stories/porn - there would always be other factors involved that helped contribute).
(Similarly, I don't see how any automated webcrawler could scan a label like "15+" and know that it's a label on a story that might contain sexual conduct involving minors.)
I hope everyone understands that I'm not trying to bash anybody else's viewpoint here. Yes, some people are worried about any mention of sex involving under-18 people, even if those people are only fictional characters, and I would like to be the first to say that there's nothing wrong with that concern. I hope you will give others the chance to explain why they beg to differ.