Now what we have here is a failure to communicate. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if there was more to it than that. However, clearly the dominant concern among people critical of male WAM is that it not get mixed in with the female WAM content. The UMD may be no substitute for a long erotic video of top quality. Yet it is only natural that many male members would occasionally develop a measure of excitement from browsing new contributions and reading detailed personal accounts. It would be extremely rude if a naked man burst in on a married couple's foreplay and thrust what passes for an erection in his world toward the face of a stranger intent on a passionate experience with his wife. That goes way beyond killing the mood, not to mention way beyond incredibly rude.
Getting turned on by browsing the forum is not the same as getting turned on by foreplay with a beloved mate. Yet visiting this forum is also not the same as reading a book about the history of ladders. For almost all of us, the experience will fall somewhere in between those two extremes. The reason segregation has value is because there is real mood-killing rudeness in deliberately inserting imagery that disrupts an otherwise pleasant and exciting experience. Users with less than stellar language skills, especially in the immediate aftermath of such a disruption, may react by writing comments about male WAM ranging from harsh to downright mean.
I believe most of those comments, if framed in cooler moments and enhanced by thoughtful reflection, would actually translate to, "do you really have to put that right
here?" Personally, I think it is wise to keep content segregated because there is a legitimate place for the sharing of WAM imagery with a clear focus on male subjects, but that place should not be sprinkled throughout the primary venue for sharing WAM imagery with a clear focus on female subjects. This very small inconvenience for bisexual users is a tradeoff that has considerable value for both exclusively heterosexual and exclusively homosexual users.
In fact, though I believe there remains an "anything goes" policy with avatars, personally I wish users could muster the decency to be more sensitive to this concern. Your avatar is a representation of yourself to the rest of the community. Okay, so I realize this makes me a crudely rendered flogging implement. That may be irrelevant, but it is not entirely inaccurate, and I certainly do not intend it to be disruptive. After all, I'm not a dick.
Regards,
messydom