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ORIGINAL: CelticSubM

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ORIGINAL: vixenkneels

While I haven't seen anything like the OP has seen here on CM I have in fact turned in a so-called dominant's profile photo to administration because the man's primary profile photo is one of him holding an INFANT in his arms. I find the photo distasteful and without a place in any BDSM website.

Unfortunately, I checked to see if CM's administration had done anything about that profile yesterday (thinking the update CM performed might handle it) but found the profile still displaying the photo.

You don't describe the context of the photograph. Perhaps it is indeed distasteful. You seem to be suggesting that the mere presence of an infant, even in an ordinary family picture type setting, is distasteful. That seems a very curious attitude. Some people with listings on CM are parents. It may be important to them that their profile reflect the importance of their children in their lives. I can't think why anyone would find that objectionable.

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ORIGINAL: theobserver
But it goes without question (in my opinion) that photographs of minors should not be displayed on this website or any site like it.

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ORIGINAL: RedMagic1

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ORIGINAL: theobserver
But it goes without question (in my opinion) that photographs of minors should not be displayed on this website or any site like it.

Don't you think there's real benefit to showing that people who beat on other people are also loving parents, and members of loving families?  How is this any different from the notion of showing kids on gay-centered web sites?  Or should the fact that kinky people love their children be just as off-limits as saying that Jimmy has two mommies?  Besides, a single man looking for a partner might want to post a photo showing that he is a loving parent.  Men and women do that on Match all the time, and it's not as though people registered on Match aren't looking for sexual partners.

Beyond that, there are site members in all kinds of economic situations.  Many people are living mutliple families to an apartment (or a house), or a whole family in a studio apartment, etc.  Your logic would indicate that, for example, no one in such a situation could log into the video chatroom, because kids would undoubtedly appear in the background of their camera from time to time, just because of living in close quarters.  That seems discriminatory to me.

However, all that said, administration has made clear in recent posts that the guiding factor here is practical, not philosophical: it depends on the political climate of the US, and on what is considered "obscene" by law enforcement today.  So while some people might want to post any photo because of freedom of speech, and others might want to have no kids ever to protect the children, the reality is that the site will probably vary what it does over time, to keep law enforcement out of its hair.

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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

I confess I get a giggle from the unit pics. There is a local POC who has his erect part photgraphed next to a half-gallon milk carton, for scale one presumes.

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ORIGINAL: TazDevil

I know there not in the chat rooms any more but when I found a pic in collerme.com of a girl sucking a dick of a horse I was like W T F!!!!!!!!

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Collarme is riddled with adult advertisement featuring c*cks, vaginas, sexual torture devices, porn flicks, consensual violence and everything and anything in between,

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ORIGINAL: RedMagic1

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ORIGINAL: theobserver
But it goes without question (in my opinion) that photographs of minors should not be displayed on this website or any site like it.

Don't you think there's real benefit to showing that people who beat on other people are also loving parents, and members of loving families?  How is this any different from the notion of showing kids on gay-centered web sites?  Or should the fact that kinky people love their children be just as off-limits as saying that Jimmy has two mommies?  Besides, a single man looking for a partner might want to post a photo showing that he is a loving parent.  Men and women do that on Match all the time, and it's not as though people registered on Match aren't looking for sexual partners.

Beyond that, there are site members in all kinds of economic situations.  Many people are living mutliple families to an apartment (or a house), or a whole family in a studio apartment, etc.  Your logic would indicate that, for example, no one in such a situation could log into the video chatroom, because kids would undoubtedly appear in the background of their camera from time to time, just because of living in close quarters.  That seems discriminatory to me.

However, all that said, administration has made clear in recent posts that the guiding factor here is practical, not philosophical: it depends on the political climate of the US, and on what is considered "obscene" by law enforcement today.  So while some people might want to post any photo because of freedom of speech, and others might want to have no kids ever to protect the children, the reality is that the site will probably vary what it does over time, to keep law enforcement out of its hair.

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ORIGINAL: KITTYLECTRO

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