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The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 15:29, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Anal masturbation

This seems like a controversial article for Wikipedia.
- merge to Masturbation. --SuperDude 06:17, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
- merge to Masturbation. Project2501a 08:59, 9 May 2005 (UTC) -- COMMENT: Just because it's controversial, does not mean it should be deleted :P
- Keep. This article is too long to be merged into another article, and masturbation involving the anus is a phenomenon different enough from simple masturbation to deserve its own article. There are many more articles on Wikipedia that describe adult, controversial, or sexually explicit topics, such as gay bathhouse, felching, testicle cuffs, cock and ball torture, frotteurism, facesitting, to name a few. AlexQ 12:16, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. I agree with AlexQ. Self contained, well written complete Article. --Marianocecowski 11:49, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep
  - 49th edit by this user
- Keep
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- Keep. Agree with AlexQ. Too long to merge. Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors (or anyone else for that matter). -- Krash 20:13, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep
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- Keep
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- Keep
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- Keep (seconding Krash's reasoning)
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- Keep (Seconding Krash's reason) ultraviolet.
- Keep. No one has offered any compelling reason for deleting this article. Controversy is good, first of all, because it allows all points of view to be aired, not just the ones that one side likes. On the contrary, this is a perfectly legitimate article with valuable information on a fairly common human behavior. For the reasons above, this article fits very well within the bounds of WikiPedia's mission. The only possible real (and unspoken) "reason" for deletion would have to do with censorship by social conservatives offended by the topic, who use the terrifying concept of controversy (aka "someone must not be allowed to think differently from me"). But if we start down that route then let
- me
- delete all the articles that offend social liberals - a very dangerous route and a precedent we do not want to set. I see right through the transparent pretext to the real agenda which is to censor information some uptight conservative does not want other people to have. No sale. User: GreatAlfredini (was , 19:59, 25 May 2005)
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- Keep. It's generally not a matter of interest if this article seems controversial to a small number of users. Ninuor 20:27, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
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- Keep. I find it the topic disgusting, but that's no arguemnt. Karol 20:34, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
- Controversial, maybe, but very well-written. I see no reason to delete this article. Keep. DS 23:54, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep Controversial, probably. But wikipedia is not censored and I see nothing wrong with the article. Merging into masturbation would make the other article too long and besides, they are quite different. Mgm|^(talk) 00:15, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. Controversial topics can be of interest in an encyclopedia. DoubleBlue (Talk) 00:17, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep but cleanup--this is largely a how-to. Meelar (talk) 00:48, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Cleanup and Merge with Anal sex and Masturbation. There isn't anything in this article that's specific to anal masturbation. Demi ^T/_C 00:49, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
- Keep. Why was this listed for deletion? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 01:37, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Why are we still voting?

Isn't it enough to remove the Vfd tag? And the voting has been going for a while... --Marianocecowski 08:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC) :Just leave it for the full 5 day period. People are gonna be pissed if they didn't have the chance to vote delete for it. Mgm|^(talk) 00:20, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: have gone through and attributed all the unsigned votes. Marblespire 00:39, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep So what if its controversial? Life is controversial. Too long to Merge and notable/important enough to keep. -CunningLinguist 03:16, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Merge to Masturbation. Concur with Demi. Delete, on a second review this is merely a POV fork. Megan1967 04:26, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep (no opposition to merging.) — Phil Welch 05:33, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep It looks like this has been on Vfd since May 9th, Why did it get posted twice? Samuel Wantman 05:38, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
  - It appears from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_May_28&diff=next&oldid=14336797 edit summary] by User:Weyes "add incomplete vfd nom", it was not added to the Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion page. DoubleBlue (Talk) 06:29, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep Well, controversial topics are nothing new to Wikipedia. Athiesm, anyone? Nazism? Racism? Political parties? --WikiFan04^{ß 1:04, 28 May 2005 (CDT)}
- Comment I don't see a problem with this as an article, but I feel that having the article be esentially a guide is not nessecary and is probably what led to much of the controversy over the article. I suggest we keep, but re-word such that it sounds less like an instruction manual for mastrubating... Oracleoftruth 06:36, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
  - Go ahead, edit it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:35, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep Grutness...wha? 13:40, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep but for God's sake rewrite! Right now it reads most of all like a how-to guide. The article could easily be a bit more academic and a bit less like Martha Stewart's guide to life in prison. Eixo 15:06, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. Clearly a notable behavior, on which much sexology research has been done. Also article is/will be too long to practically fit all of its content in the main masturbation article. (And anyone who disagrees can shove it up their ass ;-) - Sorry, couldn't resist!) Blackcats 19:15, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, although I imagine the page will be adult-content filtered at many sites. — RJH 05:35, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
- Merge with masturbation. Radiant_
- 10:40, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep Notable sub-type of masturbation. Buttplug Klonimus 08:21, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
- Unsigned nominator versus the sockpuppet patrol, fight! Oh yeah, and keep well-written articles on notable if deviant sexual practices. A Man In Black 09:47, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
- Merge with Masturbation. JamesBurns 11:20, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
- Keep it. —RaD Man (talk) 00:50, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Delete it. Filth like this belongs in the trash. People don't really do perverted things like this. Redirect to anus and don't forget to also vote on talk:anus to delete that disgusting picture they have posted!!! 70.177.90.39 20:47, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  - Comment. has also created an article, Anal eroticism and seems here to be expressing an opinion irreconcilable with his edits on Talk:Anus. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    - Comment. That's just the kind of thing I'd expect to hear from you. 70.177.90.39 04:44, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Delete drini ☎ 20:51, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. Wikipedia is not censored. -Seth Mahoney 14:14, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
- KEEP, if this goes just cos someone doesn't like it, where do we stop? I don't like spiders....can we delete every reference to them please!? (Ok, slightly sarky, but......) Jcuk 22:35, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I agree, DELETE the article on spiders too. 70.177.90.39 23:23, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Keep Samboy 03:28, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Worth a mention in masturbation, perhaps, but otherwise this is just a long how-to. Exploding Boy 22:29, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC) :This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.