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Over a Third of the Internet Is Pornographic
Th'Inquisitor writes "Pornography makes up 37% of the total number of web pages online, according to a new study published by Optenet, a SaaS provider. According to the report, which looked at a representative sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009."
FTFA... Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent, and illegal drugs purchase by 6.8 per cent, and are continuing to grow, according to to the study, although it failed to define what it means by these terms.
So a gaming site mentioning GTA4 could be counted as violence, drugs & porn.
Rotta reckons, "There is a growing trend for online role-playing games to encourage negative behaviour, by rewarding violent and brutal activities within the online games."
Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.
Internet shopping pages have increased by nine per cent this year, but Rotta managed not to find this worrying. What might kids be buying? Has she thought of that?
She finds shopping sites worrying? Dont most of them still require a credit card for payment?
according to a new study published by Optenet, a SaaS provider which delivers "on-premise" security.
So they will sell you software to protect you from teh interwebs?
Now I just need software to protect me from bullshit slashvertisments posing as articles.
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Applying Rule 34 in reverse, one could say that all of the internet is pornographic. I mean, there's got to be someone who gets off reading papers on arXiv, right?
Always frustrating to see them littering all over the place.
Glad for the RPG mention though. Good to know I'm part of what's corrupting America.
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Does this count as a "porn site"?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
You really have to wonder though, if that market can be oversaturated. After all, porn changes the least over time so if there's already 100GB+ or 1TB+ of whatever fetish rocks your boat on the market, how much room is there for yet another standard flick with quite "standard" girls - for porn anyways?
I guess there'll always be the Jenna Jamesons but most of that market I think will disappear. At least here in Norway the two major production companies have folded, there's just not enough money in it. Porn is definitively a race to the bottom (pun intended).
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James Joyce defined pornographic art as art created with the intention of inspiring desire to possess the object. By this definition, advertising art is pornographic, and there's no shortage of that on the web! Perhaps a third of the content on the web isn't pornographic.
Loose lips lose spit.
The interesting question, if you ask me, is how much traffic is devoted to porn. This is the result of a survey of four million URLs, but I could set up thousands of sites about pomegranates if I wanted, and it wouldn't have much to do with interest in pomegranates. (Don't ask why pomegranates. I just thought a pomegranate sounded good right now. Too much darn work though.) I suppose in large volume the quantity correlates with the size of the industry, but that still doesn't take into account the number of sites required to meet the needs of the people. Other people, that is, am I right?
What is a representative sample of URLs? Due to dynamic content, the internet has an infinite number of URLs so surely the percentages you come up with are all about the methods you use to obtain the URLs. If you include enough precision in decimal degree of latitude and longitude, there's probably more of the internet just in google maps than in porn.
You probably do and haven't realized it. Having worked IT in law enforcement, I can attest that you CANNOT judge a person's sex life by their appearance. That sweet girl on the plane or straight laced guy could be into some freaky stuff and you would never know.
Not being snide, but what instances in your law enforcement IT experience point to that conclusion? Just looking for the scandal, humor, etc...Could you enlighten us with the correlation for the purpose of comedy and more jokes against the state (TM)?
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I have found that Google image search often omits the "find similar images" button for images containing nudity.
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Art is certainly rare in porn, but it's pretty rare in commercial television as well - perhaps the real question is, is it getting rarer? Satire and Parody tend to count as artistic values. I don't know if there's anything like parodies coming out nowdays, but back during the 70's - 80s, there were. Many films had titles such as '8 to 4' (parodying '9 to 5'), or Flesh Gordon (which ended up being distributed as nonporn or at least softcore, because the funny parts were, well, funny enough to stand on their own.) You could just about bet there would be a porno version of some films, because you could see how some of the parts that could easily be parodied would be sexual humor.
As for "minor", for some people, everything short of Shakespeare or at least Beckett is minor. Tons of directors could aspire to make the great XXX commentary on the human condition, and it's quite possible not one of them would hit such a high mark. Devil in Miss Jones definitely aspired to say something about religious repression of natural human desires, but did it actually say anything at all important? I doubt anyone in the porn industry today is even aiming that high, but I doubt that people in the TV industry get as much freedom and/or resource commitment when they try to break out of cliche land as they once did. Maybe porn is facing the same problem as video media in general, more than something unique to porn.
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Prude. First, you've got the term wrong. Kinky is a feather. Erotic is the whole chicken. You're getting squeamish over a couple of feathers.
Second, try light choking with a girl who's comfortable with you during sex. Let her know you're going to do it, learn how to ONLY do it partially (for $DEITY's sake, don't kill her) and make sure she's cool with it. I've yet to run in to a woman that doesn't enjoy light choking, medium to hard spanking, and a little bit of firm but slow hair pulling. Granted you don't do these for foreplay necessarily, but in the heat of the moment they're a massive turn on done right. And remember: it's only kinky the FIRST time.
Wait, what am I thinking. This is slashdot. I should be giving you tips on how to get her in bed first, shouldn't I? ;-)
Yup, agreed, there's not enough erotic sexy stuff. Extreme porn should really only exist through personal experience, and not because it's too extreme, but rather because it pokes a part of your brain that is exclusive to each person. Cheapening extreme fetishes with bad porn is just not cool.