I think as a "family" we have many different thoughts and none of them should be considered as unacceptable topics for a thread. It's terrific we have such a diverse membership and everyone feels comfortable discussing a huge variety of subjects.

I seldom read the political threads but I don't think they need a seperate forum. Its easy enough to just skip over them.

You are correct in saying this is a sexually oriented playground but if we do not allow politics then we would also need to ban or seperate the other non-sexual topics in threads.... jokes, pictures of houses/parks/gardens, baby pics, questions about car seats, birthday wishes, vacation threads, movie/book threads, etc... I would miss reading them if they were suddenly gone. It's the variety of topics that makes this a well rounded site and gives it the family feeling.

As far as 'bad feelings' because of a thread, I say we're all adults and should be able to control ourselves but if someone is so upset or angry due to a topic, then they shouldn't be reading it and just need to get away from it. Isn't that how real life works?

Variety is the spice of life.