Wikipedia

[Ginevra]

(Not sure if this fits better here or in Sexuality. Please move as needed/appropriate.)

I was surfing around the net today and I saw a link to an article about Susan Sontag. I had heard briefly that she'd passed, so I thought I'd go and read up. (New knowledge never hurts, right? >< )

The page that I came to was this. Now, granted, I have seen nude males before, I have viewed erotica of several different flavours. Male and female genitals are nothing new to me. However, to be greeted with that when visiting a supposed encyclopedia type web site and having to sort through that to get to what I wanted to see in the first place is a little much to me. It's situations like this where I'm glad that I don't have children.

Don't get me wrong; I do believe in self expression and freedom of speech. I do believe, though, that unless the parents wish it, that children shouldn't be unduly exposed to potentially sexually related things inadvertantly.

[LuthienTheFallen]

i didnt even see any pics when checking this out what are u taliking about?

[Fierce Critter]

Nothing untoward came up for me either, Ginevra. Perhaps you might have suffered a popup of somekind?

[Ginevra]

Nope, it was embedded right in the page. Perhaps it was just a random thing, I guess.

[Dubh Aingeal]

I had gone to it as well shortly after it was posted and the page was covered in genitalia and info about how wikipedia is supported by adult searches, etc... I think someone probably had hacked the site....

[Jarodaka]

Perhaps hacked or perhaps the concept of group editing worked out really well.