Ahhh, the new adult content setting stuff.

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Info that might be helpful:

• The adult content settings work very much the same way friendslocking your journal does. You can set your journal to Adult Concepts and then deliberately choose to make some entries "No Adult Content" -- whatever content setting you choose becomes your default, but you can have an "Adult Concepts" journal and still post some entries that everyone can see. Similarly, you can have an "Explicit Adult Content" journal and still post some entries that everyone can see.

• I did some experimenting and tried to read LJ while logged out and on a browser I don't usually use. If I tried to view an "Adult Concepts" journal when I wasn't logged in, LJ asked me to verify that I was at least 14 years old. When I clicked that I was, I went right into the journal without any more trouble than that. When I tried to view a post that was specifically rated "Explicit Adult Content" in that same journal (the one that is generally marked as Adult Concepts), I got the "Adult Content - 18" warning page, and it asked me to confirm that I was at least 18. When I clicked that I was, there you go, adult erotic fic! So, while it's a slight inconvenience, people who don't have LJs or view LJ without being logged in (for whatever reason) can definitely still view anything in your journal regardless of how it's rated.

Interesting links

Normal Breasts Photo Gallery. Photos of actual women's natural breasts. (Therefore, NSFW.)

Retouch. Shows the many ways in which a photo of a model is changed to make it more marketable.

ETA - The soft-hard gallery, which shows penises both flaccid and erect, and the Intact Gallery, which shows intact (uncircumcised) penises.