My city has public statues and art installations that do that. In fact kind of a lot of places do. Way too much of the world suffers what I consider weird hangups on this subject.

I get separating pornography from public display, but this isn't that.

While I respect people not wanting to see certain content (and their right to block it), I don't see what's so offensive about the human body, or the aesthetic appreciation for it that some us feel, to the point that even non-nudity that displays the wrong shapes has to be censored lest someone somewhwere take offence to the point of it causing genuine averse consequences.

Even then, lemmy doesn't have the kind of complex tagging system that would allow people to define what they don't want to see before they see it. I expressed in this thread that I don't want porn in my feed, but if I were to disable NSFW content on my profile, a lot of not-porn I do want to see would go with it.

How many people would miss my post if I err on the side of caution too much?

Would I flag it as "midly provocative" if that was an option to allow those who want to to filter it out? Sure. But we don't have proper tagging on lemmy. Not yet. And NSFW is synonymous with pornography for A LOT of people, which again, this isnt.

Hence why sopulis policies on blocking porn fit me so well. And why programming.dev should absolutely do the equivalent for whatever types of content you want enable your users to see.

I realise I'm at an extreme end of the matter, which is why I DO flag some things as NSFW even when I don't personally bat an eye.

But I also can't just flag everything, or mark the entire communties NSFW, because that IS used for porn, and will be what users expect and post if I did.

So I do my best to offend fewer people, but at the same time the content I want to share is often in a place where people simply don't agree on what it is and how to categorize it.

And while posting with an abundance of caution would be nice, it means suppressing discovery on all instances, instead of just some, and mostly being found by users browsing for something to masturbate to.