This group has always been better than other emet lists because there is no explicit ban on graphic posts or on using certain words. Groups that have bans on the words tend to attract only the most helpless kind of emets with a victim mentality, and the group dissolves into mindless drivel, and no one is helped with their emet. Those groups only exist to cope with emet, and no one is willing to confront their emet.
I also advocate thewriting of graphic posts for one simple reason: They help ease the anxiety of the person who is writing them. It's true. I've been dealing with emets online for more than 10 years, not only on boards like this and emet lists but also dealing with individual emets who contact me about their emet after reading my Emetophobia FAQ, and one thing I've noticed is that it really eases their anxiety to write about their vomiting experiences and to make those posts as explicit and detailed as possible. More than one emet has told me it was therapeutic to write it all out.
It might be a different thing to READ the posts of other like that, however, and I see the sensibility of flagging such posts as graphic. (My post the other night to the "V in sleep" thread started by saying it was a truly disgusting story.)
Therefore, I would not be in favor of any change in IES policy that would make users feel less free to say what they want. Such a change would discourage the cathartic descriptions that many people find helpful and would drive away people who truly want to overcome their emet and leave only helpless people who are only interested in coping with it.
Anyway, Sage has reported in the past that the more graphic a thread is, the more likely it is to be read. So I think this means popular opinion on the board is on my side. How can anyone complain that they were surprised by graphic content in a thread titled "I just did IT and was IT ever awful!!!"
DougEdited by: gumdropper1
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