(08-17-2012, 06:45 AM)darkfanboy Wrote: Everyone's viewpoint on this is valid. The problem I foresee is not in the promotion but guilt by association. Pornography itself also is more than pictures, stories can and have been classified as such. I'm just being a devil's advocate for the most part here, and I thank everyone for the level heads we keep for this very touchy subject.
I do understand that you're just looking out for us, and the site. Like Lyric said, no worries. :) I just logged on to notice that he's taken extra steps to block out the site from casually peering eyes by making access to the content here for members only.
Also, as Lyric noted, everything here is fiction. If anyone who reads our stories can't tell the difference between fact and fiction, then there's a whole lot of stuff we should be worried about, and keeping the "no minors engaged in sex" rule wouldn't change any of that.
This is, after all, not the first place that has ever allowed underage sex to occur. Just to give an example, I read a lot of fantasy, and even published authors (meaning actual physical books like you find in any public library) have had youth engage in both heterosexual and homosexual sex, and even (female) pregnancies. Raymond E. Feist, Mercedes Lackey, and Todd McCaffrey (Anne McCaffrey's son, who's been working with her on the last few Pern novels) have all done so, just to name a few bestselling authors I can cite off the top of my head (in one of Mercedes Lackey's books - published back in 1989 - a 15 year old character who's in a homosexual relationship with a 17 year old learns that his 13 year old brother got their mother's maid pregnant), and I'm sure other Mpreg Central members could name other authors who have done so, and civilization hasn't collapsed around us. Certainly, those authors, like us, do not actually condone the violation of any Age of Consent laws in real life.