OCC is more than a porn forum. It has porn on it but it also has art, humour, and serious discussions. Like the name states, it is predominently a forum for posting (beautiful) images of (beautiful) women. While most men are of the opinion that most women are at their most beautiful when undressed, there are plenty of non-nude threads, which are fully within the spirit of OCC. Naked Mile and WNBR pictures are also fully within the spirit of OCC and in my view are a much better selling point than any of the pornographic content.
And the majority of Naked Mile and WNBR pictures are not pornographic pictures any more than the Naked Mile and the WNBR are pornographic events. Not all nudity is pornography, and the photographers who zoom in at crotch level are very much a minority even here.
I suspect that most participants will be looking for pictures of themselves on the internet, and if they do it properly they will find themselves here. Hopefully they will see from the comments how much we appreciate them - not just their bodies but their smiles, their sense of fun and adventure, the effort in their costumes and decoration, and in many cases their friendliness. I doubt they appreciate the amount of enjoyment they bring us - they aren't doing it for us they are doing it for their own enjoyment - and the last thing any of us want is to stop or inhibit them.
Of course it is blatant sexism, we are objectifying women, we get excited when they are naked and embarrassed, and I expect any who become aware of being posted here will probably be uncomfortable, embarrassed and angry. OCC's policy is to remove pictures upon request but how many requests actually get made? If a woman finds herself posted in this thread there are probably a dozen equally embarrassing or more intrusive pictures of her scattered across Flickr and other photo-sharing sites, never mind 4chan and the seedier end of the internet, and at least here you are appreciated rather than judged. If you are going to participate in a naked event, this goes with the territory. So I don't think they worry too much about it, and I don't think we should either. Feminists will always grumble about places like this but any harm we do is minimal and the internet is bursting with far worse offenders. If anything our crime is being too popular, too mainstream, too visible a target!
Ugh, I hate seeing big blocks of text on a thread like this. Someone post some pictures!!
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