Internet Only 1% Porn 422
Eli Gottlieb writes "In what surely comes as a complete and utter surprise to everyone here, a new calculation shows that only one percent of web pages contain pornography. While the calculations were performed using data forced from Google's and Microsoft's search indices by the government, they will help the American Civil Liberties Union to keep enforcement of the Children's Online Protection Act of 1998 banned. A loss for business privacy has become a victory for free speech, even though netizens lose a beloved old proverb."
I kind of think this is true... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Ok but... (Score:2, Interesting)
More than one percent porn spam (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course it's only 1% of sites... (Score:5, Interesting)
Millions of people can belong to one huge site and spend all their time there. Dozens and dozens of "mini" sites all just feed into the same big site, and depending on how they counted this, those might all be "one site." A whole ton of the porn out there probably isn't indexed, because you have to have an account and log in to the one accessible page the crawler saw to get to the ten million pages of porn behind it. A huge amount of the porn online probably never has anything to do with the web, as it's moving over bittorrent, usenet, gnutella, etc.
Estimates I've seen of the percent of internet traffic that's porn have been much, much higher than 1%.
Quote From TFA (Score:5, Interesting)
That might be the most insightful thing that I've read all week...
The other 99% (Score:2, Interesting)
Skeptical? (Score:2, Interesting)
How do you define pornography? (Score:5, Interesting)
1. Bare tit
2. Celebrity nipple slips
3. Non-detailed butt/bum shots
4. Up the skirt panty shots
To others who are more extreme in their anti-porn views, the following would qualify:
1. Females under the age of 18 wearing skimpy clothing and too much makeup on MySpace
2. Anything with a female of any age wearing clothing that starts above the knee and doesn't cover the legs, or exposes the midriff
3. Anything that celebrates female sexuality in terms of sexual pleasure. It's OK to celebrate it, if it's related to child bearing. Witness the number of couples who tell all their friends and family "we started trying to have a baby a few months ago" without batting an eye, but you wouldn't see them saying "we started trying to increase the quality and frequency of orgasm for both of us a few months ago". With "both" implying that she gets to have a lot of fun too.
The two groups above very likely would comdemn people to death for looking at images of activities like:
1. Gay/Lesbian Sex
2. Orgies
3. Bondage and Dicipline/Sado-Masochism
4. Female Domination
5. Infantilism
6. Furries/Yiff (sexual scenarios utilizing anthropomorphic animals in cartoon form)
7. Bisexual activity of any kind (forced homosexuality in the domination scene all the way to "lesbian" activity in the swingers scene)
8. Cross dressing
9. Extreme body play (super large anal and vaginal insertions. Think: bowling ball in ass or eggplant in vagina. It's been done. Many times. You'd be amazed at how much human tissue can stretch without breaking)
10. Nullo (the voluntary or involuntary removal of genitalia)
11. Amputation (removal of limbs for sexual pleasure)
12. Scat (sexual activity focused on fecal matter)
13. Bestiality (sexual activity with animals)
14. Hentai (anime with a strong sexual focus possibly even including "tentacle sex" and mutilation (typically of females))
15. Hirsute women (women with a lot of body hair who don't shave it off. As some men put it, "wool panties")
16. God/Goddess/Wife worship (people who literally worship their masters, mistresses and spouses in the BD/SM scene and take the worship very seriously)
17. Swingers (real people who engage in free exchange of sexual partners. Typically lots of straight couples and singles with bisexual activity between women. There is very little homosexual activity between men and some groups discourage it due to health concerns based around the lie that AIDS is a "gay" disease.)
18. Cybelle (Wife as goddess figure. Husband must submit to being a literal "human toilet" and ingest urine and feces of wife. Husband is also cut off crom all sexual contact with wife, while wife has right to take many lovers. Husband is also in financial bondage and all money he earns go to wife for her use only. Hehehe... I expect some guys here will say that that's why they got divorced in the first place.
19. Foot fetish
20. Hotwife/Cuckold culture. Wives sleep with other men and their husbands photo/video them for sharing on the net both free and pay. The cuckolds never get to have sex with their wives.
And that's just a smattering of what I've scene in my 16 years on the net as an amateur sexologist/enthusiast. All of the above activities/groups publish photos and text online that the simpler folk of our society would find appalling and unacceptable. Hell, even I was shocked when I found the Nullo, Amputation and Cybelle stuff. But, then after looking at these things I realized that this stuff has ALWAYS been around long before the first bits poured out onto the internet. And as long as humans exist, these things will continue to be around. In the past people did this stuff underground and kept their images, written words and fantasies to themselves. If they were caught, they were likely i
One data point (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Not a good metric (Score:1, Interesting)
About web search (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Don't blame just the policy makers. (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't open the champagne yet; the DOJ can find data in the study to support their claim.
I noted this in the article -
Which raises the question, what percentage of the search terms are of that nature? The report from Dr. Philip Stark states that in addition to the random search terms, 685 popular queries (as counted by Wordtracker) were used in the study. When those search terms were used, the return rate of sexually explicit sites was about 37%.
To me it shows that a lot of people are looking for pr0n (and finding it), so I wanted to see what people are currently looking for. These are the current top 30 search terms [wordtracker.com], but they have been edited by Wordtracker "so as not to cause offense." Does anyone have access to the current, unedited top 30, 100, 500, etc.?
last i checked... (Score:1, Interesting)
Last I checked, my pages weren't all made up of 1% porn.
It is more like 82%, but thats beside the point.
Also, this site [kittenwar.com] is not 1% porn either, or if it is, you are pretty ill.
Re:I suspect (Score:2, Interesting)
MOST men don't look at pornography. Perhaps not even MOST men on Slashdot. The ones that say "everyone does it" are the ones that do it themselves.
University of Alabama researchers Zillman and Bryant found that prolonged exposure to pornography leads people to overestimate the incidence of almost all sexual activities - particularly sodomy, group sex, S&M and sexual contact with animals. (Paul, Pornified, P226) It's no wonder that porn addicts assume that "everyone looks at porn." Their world-view is so twisted that they can't imagine someone not being interested in porn.
(BTW, there aren't many current studies of the effects of porn exposure, because of the findings of researchers like Zillman and Bryant. The changes in the way people thought after heavy porn exposure were so extreme that research boards will not approve further porn research on human subjects.)
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Thomas.
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