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I'm finding myself in somewhat of a difficult position.  As you all know, I am a regular participant in something called Half-Nekkid Thursday (HNT).  Despite the word "Nekkid", it doesn't mean that skin is shown.  I'm a very modest person.  The most I have ever shown (and will ever show) is me without a shirt.  Nothing more than what I'd expose if I were wearing a swimming suit.  That's just me.  My take on HNT is to provide photos that entertain.  That show imagery not expected.  To use my imagination and provide some laughs through the thousand words that photos speak.

Not everyone takes this approach, as you may guess.

The problem I run into hovers around my philosophy of visiting the blogs of those people who visit mine.  I feel it is rude not to.  I want to at least give the courtesy to others that was shown me.  The issue is that I tend to want to stay away from those blogs that portray overtly sexual and what I would consider immodest topics.  There's a lot of artistic portrayals of the human body.  A lot of people find that these are okay.  That such portrayals are not immodest but showing the beautiful nature of the body as God intended it.  That's fine that people want to think this.  I'm not going to judge you if you think this way.  But it is not my view.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I think the human body is not beautiful.  What I am saying is that I don't think it's good to be showing it off to just anyone who has an Internet connection.  I feel that the human body is not only beautiful, but sacred.  Personally, only a select few people should be privy enough to see the human body in it's natural state.  But this is only my opinion, and I refuse to push it on others.

However, when it comes to this blog, I feel it is important to be assertive in my portrayals of what's modest and what's not.  This is a family blog.  It is designed to bring a smile to your face because I wrote or displayed something funny.  There are people who visit my blog who are underage and/or offended by what can be considered obscene material.  At the same time, I do not wish to alienate myself from others simply because of my moral beliefs.  Maybe I'm wrong in that, I don't know.  I just hope that nobody will ostrasize me or otherwise be offended by what I feel I must do to this blog.

It is with some regret that I must implement a new policy on this blog.  Please understand that this is by no means anything personal to anyone in particular.  But I must excercise my right to edit any comments with links to subjects that I feel does not meet the scope of this blog.  This means that if you comment on one of my posts, and provide a link back to your blog which shows material that may be considered objectionable or even pornographic, please understand that I may (or may not) remove said link.  I do not mean to offend anyone or otherwise cause sore feelings over this.  I just need to protect (or perhaps rebuild) the integrity of my blog, and I think that this is the best way to do so.

I truly appreciate all comments that are made to anything that I create here.  Please understand, this is not a policy I am implementing lightly.  I know this may offend some, or even cause me to lose those precious few regular readers that I have.  I just hope that you will understand why I feel I need to implement this new policy.  Thanks in advance for understanding.