[SuzanneR]

I wonder if it would help, if the sidebar with the "latest photo" was either disabled by default or it was made to be known that it can be disabled. While I myself am not offended by erotic images, even then I'd prefer not to see them without my own consent. Browsing an art gallery can be understood to be such consent, but just reading a forum not -- at least not in my opinion.

Regardless, I agree that there should space for erotic art in the gallery on this site. On the other hand, there should also be space for those people who for different reasons do not want to see such imagery and they should have that space without being called with derogatory names. I hope this site can be for those who are interested in analog photography, what ever their values, religion, ethnicity etc.

You can disable the left sidebar by clicking the little arrow to the upper right of the image, and it's a good idea if, for example, you check in on APUG at the office or some such. We know that there are pictures uploaded to the site that are considered NSFW (not safe for work) and perhaps not always appropriate for children. So it's up to each user to view the gallery on their own terms. I'm not the biggest fan of the female nude in photography because it's just so overdone, though I must say, Emil's work is quite lovely, and it's a shame he felt the need to remove it, and it's best if we feel make everyone feel welcome to post their pictures without generating threads like this. (Been awhile since we had one, it seems to me, but we have, a lot of them... )

We've gone around and around how to present images that are considered NSFW, but in the end it's impractical, and with thousands of images here, it'd be impossible to change the galleries or add "NSFW" to every nude or violent picture in the gallery. Don't click on images that don't interest or disturb you.