karen1573: The wording and rules were put in place in response to both complaints from members viewing the galleries, and a problem with increasing numbers of inappropriate images of children and/or inappropriate comments on images of children.

Are you saying what I think you are saying that there was images of actual children in a sexual context posted in the poser-gallery? If not, then the claim above is a false one, as others have already pointed out.

I do also remember that about a year ago (I think) the new red text warning was placed in the "upload image" page, and there was a form of crackdown which followed where alot of old images were deleted due to containing 'inappropriate material'. One of them belonging to the most commented crowd and thus would unlikely have gone unnoticed before this.

The answer you gave was unfortunaly only a confirmation of what we already knew, if some material is deemed inappropriate for whatever reason then any rule that prohibits posting this material makes sense. But this isn't what was asked.