How much of a "sex" warning necessary on articles?

darcylogan · Post by **darcylogan** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:47 am

This is a weird question, I know.

I am working on a couple articles about weird animal laws and there is some reference to sex, alcohol, and smoking. I feel I should put a warning in my description, but I don't wish it to sound worse than it is.

I would consider the article PG. Some would probably rate it as PG-13.

It does have one sentence about humans having sex with animals (but, hey, I'm not the state that made it legal.)

That is as graphic as I get in the article.

Is including "Please note: this article does have brief references to sex, alcohol, and smoking." enough? Should I provide a "clean" copy for people? Can I give permission for those sections to be removed without needing them to purchase the full rights? Or am I being overly sensitive about this issue?

I guess I need to know where CC stands with this issue.

Thanks,
Darcy

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu May 10, 2007 12:15 pm

I think your brief note is enough. Just as long as people know they shouldn't put it on a child-oriented site.

Ed

darcylogan · Post by **darcylogan** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:08 pm

Thanks Ed!

After getting reamed by someone for using the word "homosexual" in an teen/adult forum, I'm overly cautious.

The argument was "what if a seven year old reads that post and then has to ask his parents what that means." I thought that any seven year old who could read that was probably smart enough to know what it meant. The forum moderator backed me up, but it still taught me a valuable lesson: Not every body has the same standards.

Darcy