Let's not forget Mark Pesce at linux.conf.au feeling compelled to put fetish photos in his presentation to illustrate some minor point unrelated to sexual fetis

Let's not forget Mark Pesce at linux.conf.au feeling compelled to put fetish photos in his presentation to illustrate some minor point unrelated to sexual fetishes. Once you start down the trashy route, there's nowhere to go but down; you wind up competing with all the other douchebags for attention. Also, you pick up a bunch of fans from this sort of thing who are essentially shitheads ("Huh huh, those humourless feminazis are at it again, you tell 'em, I thought your talk/conf/video was just good fun") so your good name will be further trashed by all your defenders, even if you want to back off.