Originally posted by 2kitties
I have to respectfully disagree. I haven't seen anything I would categorize as vulgar. Have you guys watched prime time TV lately? I do not see talk of alcohol as offensive at all and the sexual inuendo- well again, perfectly innocent.

We ask that people not be so thin-skinned here in the dog house because we discuss controversial topics. We allow teenagers to completely trash talk their parents, we allow religious arguements, discussions that sometimes get outright mean. It's all life, folks. Learn to deal. If it gets so sensored that we can't even have a real debate or if we completely lose our sense of humor- well, then it's lost its appeal as far as I'm concerned.

Edit: and here is a Dog House idea: if someone is too immature to read very veiled, mostly innocent sexual joking, then are they really mature enough to be surfing internet message boards? Probably not. It's most likely a situation where parents should be better monitoring their child's internet usage. I can't imagine a child under the age of 12 being allowed to use the internet without supervision. I am sure that supervision isn't happening as it should, but it is not my responsiblity to parent cyberspace.
My nine year old niece doesn’t watch much prime time TV. She’s busy with homework and (gasp) chores, but she does like to come to my house on the weekend and read pet talk and look at all the animals. She’s not exposed to the vulgar stuff on TV that IMO kids shouldn’t be viewing. (Don’t they all have the amount of homework she has?)

I let her get on PT and that’s the only site she visits other than radio Disney. She thought the doghouse was about dogs, but I told her some of the stuff that’s written here is for more grown up people. She took that fine and stays out, but not all kids do. By promoting Pet Talk as a family friendly site, many parents and guardians wouldn’t think twice about allowing their kids free access to it, just like Nickelodeon and the radio Disney site.

And I don’t think talking about pasties and sliding down a pole are innuendos, especially when kids ask their parents what that means. If Taylor asked I’d have to explain it to her, and while she understands about sex and has had the talk with her mother, I think there’s a lot of info she doesn’t need just yet.