Joe- I hardly think that asking for some discretion that keep Mudcat accessible to the gtreatest number of people is "sanitizing" any songs. We are supressing nothing. The songs are right there, just below the surface for those who CHOOSE to open that thread.

One might ask: How did we manage for several years before this? We have certainly had many bawdy songs mentioned, quoted and added....and until now folks didn't seem to feel the need to splash some very explicit and tasteless names directly in thread titles.

Euphemisms can be silly and stupid...or they can serve a useful purpose by simply deflecting anger & upsets while we continue doing exactly what we wish...quietly.

We rightfully decry total censorship and stupid expurgation, but we will ALWAYS have those who, for whatever reason, do not like reading "motherfucker" as they scan music threads. We will not change this by wearing Joun Mehlberg's chip on our shoulder!

In our area there is a town which has carefully controlled that size & type of display signs for businesses. They do not say you can't sell hamburgers or mattresses, they just say you can't have 40 ft. tall neon signs fronting on the road advertising them. Everyone knows exactly where to go to get a hamburger, but it is much pleasanter to drive through. I kinda wish more areas would use 'taste' as one zoning parameter.
(In the same way, I think that many big city 'red light' and porno districts would have been left alone if they had not insisted on the garish red & yellow storefronts and garish, juvenile names for the stores! It didn't have to be a secret to know where to buy 'adult' magazines and blow-up dolls, but you didn't have to explain it to the kids and grandma, either. By the way..I KNOW...I worked in an adult bookstore for 3 years which did NOT put up garish displays and attracted a much better class of perverts ..um...clientle. *grin*)

Boy, this discussion sure has focused my mind on the issue, and forced me to look at BOTH the moral and the pragmatic side of things.