Talk:Tongue
From Academic Kids
| Contents |
Coated tongue
What causes a tongue to be coated for long periods of time? Is brushing the tongue after brushing teeth healthy? Or could it damage taste buds? --bodnotbod 02:22, Jun 20, 2004 (UTC)
Piercing
- Someone may consider replacing the pierced tongue picture since it may risk offending somebody. - Jerryseinfeld 17:08, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Oral sex
Why does this discussion include an oral sex link? Since children often use wikipedia for science research, shouldn't we remove the sex reference?
Adults familiar with oral sex know the tongue plays an important role----and if they want to know more, they can enter "oral sex" in as a search.
- The oral sex reference strikes me as entirely valid: it is a clear secondary use of the tongue after its involvement in eating and speech and is worthy of mention. Children do indeed use Wikipedia, which is a good thing, but you should remember that Wikipedia is not bowdlerised or (as some would have it) "child-safe". See our content disclaimer for more on this. Also I'm afraid I don't see the logic that this mention of oral sex is in any way harmful to children. Wikipedia is here to educate and I don't consider such knowledge to be damaging to children, and I think many if not most Wikipedians would agree with me. There are parts of Wikipedia that are best kept from children - graphic images of Holocaust victims and such - but I don't think the tongue article falls into that category. — Trilobite (Talk) 04:58, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Taste areas of the tongue
I came here looking for information on the areas of taste - sweet, salt, bitter etc. - on the human tongue. I can't find it anywhere in Wikipedia so it someone knows and wants to enter it somewhere, it would be useful. If it exists somewhere, a link is needed from here and Taste bud. --Douglas 10:28, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
