I'm agreeing with Teddy here.....I came for the stories, and stayed for the people. That Pixies is a wonderful open sexual playground is great, but if it was nothing but naked folks I'd have moved on a long time since. I think the people that fall in love with this place are open, caring and interesting in many more ways than the obvious. I want to know the people, it's part of what's such a turn on to many I think. As such, I don't think any single subject should be outlawed.

As far as making a seperate section for the purpose.....I dunno. Political or quasi-political tiffs break out over all sorts of things. I think those who have pointed out that it's a tough line to draw have a point. Also, I don't understand why politics should be singled out for quarantining....while it may be an obvious offender, there are other topics that even I've noted tend to bring the heat fairly regularly despite being political free zones. Anyone want to go another three rounds on how to end a marriage? It's not sex, and it's not sexy, and I see no reason it shouldn't be left right where it was. How about the ins and outs of open relationships? That's a topic that totally belongs here, and I'm not entirely sure what it turned to when it ran off topic (if it did) could be called strictly political. And that's just off the top of my head...I'm in no way totally caught up with the boards since my flu last week. Moreover, there are counter examples: political talks that haven't turned into fire fights. I think there IS a section that keeps the politics away from the "just get naked" folks already (General Chat), and that more subdivision is solving a non-problem. After all, I'm a walking example that it's easy to avoid the political threads as is. I chose quite some time ago to keep my political discussion on my other online home, I have no problem avoiding the topics here and I don't make all that much of an effort. Hell, I had to make more of an effort to go find what might have started this ball rolling down the hill.

If the intent is to keep people from fighting...or to keep those fights from spreading, I have to ask...are they really? I haven't seen bad blood spill over onto other threads ever (if you don't count Steph and PF....and I think it's probably best not to ). We're a pretty bright group, we're going to have opinions, and those opinions are going to clash on occassion. It's our job to be grownups when that happens, and walk away if we can't manage to be nice. There are interesting things to be learned in the conflict about politics, just as when people have different opinions about whether a blow job should start at the tip or the base. It's also our job to keep the tone high, and react to negative posts on non-sex topics the same way we would to nasty posts about someone's pics. We don't do the latter, we can manage not to do the former. And if we don't manage to behave, well, then we should be reminded gently that we're out of line.

Or am I just totally missing the point? (By the way....I've decided the "post quick reply" button is just a joke in my world, no such animal....sorry I got babbling again)