The way things have been is fine. As long as ToE is restricted to people over 18, that is fine. I wasn't re-stirring the old arguments, just pointing out that more is involved than the location of the server.
And yes, it could be a genuine problem for, say, a public school teacher. I just finished editing a book on teachers and the law, and it was scarier than even I thought. Something doesn't have to BE bad to cost a teacher her job; it just has to SOUND bad.
But we've had this discussion. As I said, the way things are is fine: explicit discussions about sex are kept in ToE, and no one in ToE is under 18. So, if everyone is OK with the status quo, we have nothing to argue about.
Sorry to disagree with you, my dear friend Primmy, but I think as currently constituted, the restricted ToE actually provides a false sense of security that could do more harm then good. As Ax pointed out a while ago, there just isn't that much of a gap between what people post in ToE (which generally is NOT sexually explicit) and what they post outside the ToE, particularly in the Turf. And its gotten worse since Ax left, not better.
After editing that book, tell me what you think would happen in the following scenario: school conducts an investigation of the internet history of all of its teachers. Investigator sees many visits to the Turf on the computer of Teacher A and goes there to check it out, and sees Estel's thread on naming Rune's tits now that she is legal (not to mention a bunch of other stuff that would be considered inappropriate for minors by most school investigators). Investigator sees that anyone 13 or over has access to this material. What do you think the result would be? And how successful do you think the defense of "well, I didn't go to ToE" would be?
I say, get rid of the restrictions on the ToE and let it all hang out. At least then people would know what they are getting into.