Danbooru

Tag Implication: happy_sex -> sex

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sex tag is confusing; has been discussed and interpreted differently a lot of times, no consensus.

threesome implicates sex; forum #29600 discussed that. forum #49326 proposed other implications. Neither did resolve anything.

Rule was only "the act of vaginal intercourse", then the wiki got edited last year (2011) by evazion to encompass anal too.

"sex", as a word in English, encompasses "rape", "bestiality", "orgy", "happy sex" and others. (orgy implicates sex, too)

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i would assume some of the confusion might be attributed to how our wikis are currently defined (vs. the past and actual practice/understanding of users) and current aliases like (anal and anal_sex but no vaginal and vaginal_sex).

as of now, the sex tag is too broad/polluted to be useful and probably causes more headaches and problems than being helpful in locating posts.

by the way, how exactly is "actual vaginal or anal penetration" in a post? should the penis be still visible, at least a few centimeters of the shaft from the male body? how about those posts where the thigh obscures the pelvic regions of the participants and it's hard to tell if they're doing 'actual' sex or just rubbing together or just about to enter?

instead of looking for an umbrella for both the actual vaginal_sex (penile-vaginal penetration) and anal_sex (penile-anal penetration) we could just use both tags. anal_sex vaginal_sex is still good enough even for basic members. or if there's really a need to use just one tag, i have nothing against sexual_penetration as suggested above or if there's an alternate term.

and in just case that we are going for changes like using anal_sex as penile-anal penetration instead of any anal penetration, we should remove the alias of anal and anal_sex or redefine the wiki.

ghostrigger said:

instead of looking for an umbrella for both the actual vaginal_sex (penile-vaginal penetration) and anal_sex (penile-anal penetration) we could just use both tags. anal_sex vaginal_sex is still good enough even for basic members. or if there's really a need to use just one tag, i have nothing against sexual_penetration as suggested above or if there's an alternate term.

vaginal_sex and anal_sex are fine with me, particularly if the act is visible, not merely implied, ambiguous or imminent.

Populating them does not mean having to nuke (or clean up) sex now. But sexual_penetration (or a synonym) could be their umbrella.

There is thigh_sex, too, as a related tag.

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