Nancy Reyes observes that it’s hard to avoid porn when browsing Google’s top videos…
…while exploring, I went to the Google Video top 100 home page to see if I could download stuff on Linux without my Google Video player, and found that the “top 100″ page was all pornography. And not just “debbie does Dallas” but hard core stuff. Indeed, a lot of them say “Hard core” just so you know what you are getting…ten minutes of hard core and a link to their porn site.
Now, to be truthful, not ALL the top 100 are hard core porn. We have this one:
Snake vomits up hippopotamus
Ah, just what I always wanted to see: a semi digested hippopotamus…
Now, since my kids grew up, I haven’t put filters on my computer. They block too many medical sites, and I’m a big girl. But I put on the “medium” filter, and found it did not block the search. So I put on the “strong” filter, and still got “hot girls making out” and the rest.
So much for filters.
But it makes me wonder if Google doesn’t need an editor. If they want to place porn, they need a “porn” link for their X rated stuff, or make filters that actually work, not just let anyone surf it.
And why are they essentially allowing private porn companies to use their site for free advertising?…
See also:
TechCrunch and DeerBeards cite the following statistics from Good Magazine:
* There are an estimated 372 million porn web pages
* 12% of all websites are pornographic
* 266 new porn sites go online daily
* 25% of all search engine requests are porn related
* Sex is the most searched word on the Internet
* 35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic in nature
* 89% of porn is created in the US
* $2.84 billion in revenue was generated from US porn sites in 2006
Canada: Rural Teens Even More Likely to View Porn than Urban; Parents,
Sex Ed Somewhat Oblivious to Childrens’ Porn Viewing Habits
A total of 429 students aged 13 and 14 from 17 urban and rural schools
across Alberta, Canada, were surveyed anonymously about if, how and how
often they accessed sexually explicit media content on digital or
satellite television, video and DVD and the Internet. Ninety per cent
of males and 70 per cent of females reported accessing sexually
explicit media content at least once. More than one-third of the boys
reported viewing pornographic DVDs or videos “too many times to count”,
compared to eight per cent of the girls surveyed.
A majority of the students, 74 per cent, reported viewing pornography
on the Internet. Forty-one per cent saw it on video or DVD and 57 per
cent reported seeing it on a specialty TV channel…
And while the majority of teens surveyed said their parents expressed
concern about sexual content, that concern hasn’t led to discussion or
supervision, and few parents are using available technology to block
sexual content.
“It indicates there is plenty of room for better parenting around
pornography use. Parents need to improve dialogue with their children
and their own awareness level. They have to be educated enough to be
the ones setting the boundaries in the house,” Thompson said…
The Creation of a Pornography Addiction
“In a majority of my cases, the earlier the exposure to pornography,
the deeper the client’s level of addiction. In most cases I see
involvement with pornography starting between ages ten to fourteen…
[C]hildren and teenagers are faced with sexual decisions before they
fully understand the consequences of their own sexual behaviors.”