Previous discussion was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342431 I would offer a defence of the New

Previous discussion was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342431 I would offer a defence of the New Yorker's slightly NSFW content here. With it they're slightly breaking the same taboo that has led to all this content being purged from eBay. I suppose it makes argument that it's of historical and artistic significance despite its explicitness. Most of early LGBT cultural artifacts are, perhaps unsurprisingly, heavily sexualized with no clear professional/nonprofessional boundary as we might see it today. And so it all goes on the ban list. From the porn, to the personal ads, to the interviews, op eds, advertisements, and news too. Because they were all bound up together in the likes of Drummer magazine.