Talk:List of BDSM organizations

Spam protection filter
Wikipedia's stupid "spam protection filter" prevents me from adding the external link for the American women-only BDSM organisation Lesbian Sex Mafia (address: http://www, lesbian, sex, mafia, .org) even though it was already in the article before I edited it. I haven't visited the site but I trust it's a BDSM support organisation for women and not a mainstream porn site. J I P | Talk 10:27, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

linking
We would like to link to have our site added to this page.

Discription of site: Passions of the Mind is a pansexual organization for people who embrace alternative lifestyles including, but not exclusive to: BDSM, fetishes, and other forms of play. We provide a safe place for like-minded individuals to gather to laugh, talk, share, learn, and most importantly, play! We encourage open-minded people of all kinks to join us for play times, meetings, munches and educational events.

www.passionsofthemind.ca

signed 69.11.17.54 08:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I would like suggest another Supporto Group: They are Italian adn offer a site where to meet and talk about sexuality and BDSM. It's a large comm with more then 30.000 users. They offers munches, parties and have a Secondlife presence too. Everithing they offers is for free,

www.manettematte.org

--81.208.74.176 08:00, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Entries without articles or external links?
Entries without either articles or external links should probably be removed. J I P | Talk 09:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree. If they were removed, they've been added again. Yworo (talk) 22:18, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Deletion?
The article List of transgender-support organizations was recently deleted, and now List of transgender-rights organizations is up for deletion. Please weigh in on the discussion there, as the outcome will inevitably set a precendent for this article as well. See Articles for deletion/List of transgender-rights organizations. ntennis 23:33, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Update: the List of transgender-support organizations deletion discussion has been re-opened. See Articles for deletion/List of transgender-support organizations. ntennis 02:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a link farm
This list is acting as a directory of BDSM organizations that don't even have articles. We definitely need to prune this down. Any suggestions? (If there are none, I'll just remove the red links). --Wafulz 03:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * OK by me. It'd also serve to make the list more geographically equal. Currently aboute 97.66% of the organisations are in Merka, and 2.34% are anywhere else. J I P  | Talk 08:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I think we're close to only listing the bare minimum of BDSM organisations. We currently have eleven organisations - eight from USA, and three from the rest of the world. That is 72.73% in the USA vs. 27.27% anywhere else. It's not quite as bad as the 97.66% - 2.34% thing above but not far away. Trimming the list further will be difficult - I've already proposed both Datenschlag and Black Rose (BDSM organization) for deletion, and both were de-prodded with an argument of type "are you kidding?". J I P | Talk 16:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Redlinks removed
I removed the following links from the article. Don't add them back unless articles are made for them: Denmark: Netherlands: Norway: United States:
 * Foreningen SMil
 * BDSM-jongeren.net
 * BDSM Next
 * Samarium (organization)
 * VSSM
 * Chains (organization)
 * ReviseF65
 * The Group In Fresno, Fresno, California
 * Threshold Society, pansexual, Los Angeles, California Alsee (talk) 05:08, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

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Lead image
As many people here know, Wikipedia is NOT censored. That's why there are many images with nudity in so many articles.

However, according to MOS:SHOCKVALUE and MOS:LEADIMAGE, "lead images should be of least shock value; an alternative image that accurately represents the topic without shock value should always be preferred". So the old lead image that has partial nudity was replaced with another image without nudity. Both lead images have the exact same context: a person on a leash during some BDSM event. The only difference is the nudity.

MOS:SHOCKVALUE also says: "sometimes it is impossible to avoid using a lead image with perceived shock value, for example in articles on human genitalia". But that's not the case here, it is possible to use a lead image without perceived shock value. Both lead images (the old and the new) bring the same information to the readers, the only difference is the nudity. gabibb2  ✉  04:14, 20 August 2020 (UTC)