Actually Susan, his posting history shows that he has requested information and provided links to information consistently--and been largely ignored by the majority here. I don't think he likes that, hence him raising the ante with the thread titles.

Is there some reason why he needs to be handled with kid gloves? Given such special treatment for posting sexist crap? Sure they are "traditional" in the sense that these sorts of songs have been sung for millenia on the fringes of civilized societies and uncivilized societies.

So what's the point? Just what sort of response is this guy looking for? That we all pay attention to him and his dirty ditties, that's what.

Is there a law that says we're all supposed to accomodate his obsession with dirty ditties, just because this is a forum for the discussion of traditional music? I don't think so, but I know some peoples' mileage will vary. Especially those that like to shock by posting and discussing the good ole boys' proclivities to sing dirty little ditties. Or racist little ditties.

Like I said earlier--yawn. I am actually quite thankful that anonymity keeps me out of the shadow forum's PM loop. These censorship debates and attention seeking behaviors are bad enough in the forum itself.