Received an email from a concerned reader yesterday:

Hannah is, of course, referring to this post from a couple of days ago.

I’m not sure what surprises me more: the fact that I received a complaint, or the fact that I have a reader who isn’t one of my friends, and is in fact a complete stranger.

Very politely, I pointed out to her that while I didn’t throw up an NSFW tag anywhere in that post, I did mention that the picture showed “the teeth/mouth apparatus that are mounted into the jaws of Real Dolls, those life-like sex dolls that so creep me the fuck out.” One would think that if I say an image is one of a group depicting the construction of sex dolls, then the NSFW would be implied.

So let me spell it out now.

JOSHUA BALES dot NET is occasionally not safe for work.

If you are worried about getting in trouble at work for looking at something that could be considered inappropriate, then maybe you should not view this site until you get home.

Of course, I don’t plan on this blog turning into some sort of goatse or lemonparty linkblog. I don’t hate you that much, gentle reader. However, on occasion I do post stuff which could be frowned upon if viewed at a more conservative workplace, and when I do post such content, I don’t generally preface it by saying it’s not safe for work.

That being said, anything I do post that might be considered NSFW will almost always be phrased so as to clue the reader in to the fact, such as with the sex doll example above.

I mean, it’s not like I’m going to say, “Hey! Look at this picture of a cute cat,” and then link to a picture of a giant penis.

Though that would be funny.