10 Comments

1. 

   cymast

    /  June 24, 2009

   Did you do it?

   Some of the images are a tough call. I find violent images more objectionable than sexual images, but I tried imagining being in an office with a manager looking over my shoulder.

   NSFW I gave equal censure to real people, cartoons, fine art, and medical drawing/diagrams. In addition to the obviously sexual, I included images of exterior genitalia and buttocks, and images where most of the female breast is exposed, or where there is an exaggerated focus on the aforementionated body parts. I also included obviously suggestive poses and underwear pics.

   SFW I included images of starving/mutilated bodies and pics with non-human genitalia as SFW.

   Here’s the NSFW counts out of 20 images per first page of results:

   woman 12
   man 0

   girl 11
   boy 2

   female 17
   male 15

   she 12
   he 2

   hers 13
   his 4

   feminine 6
   masculine 3

   lady 4
   gentleman 0

   Julia 3
   Julius 0

   Mary 2
   Mario 0 (it’s all the same Mario cartoon)

   Queen 0 (mostly the rock band)
   King 0

   “female cousin” 5
   “male cousin” 2

2. 

   acilius

    /  June 24, 2009

   I’ve done that experiment from time to time over the last year or so, usually for 3-4 minutes at a time. It amazes me how little time it takes before I start to feel queasy. I don’t think of myself as someone who is especially sensitive to things like that, but the search results give such a hostile answer to the implicit question “What is a woman?” that I’ve never been able to stick with it for very long.

3. 

   cymast

    /  June 24, 2009

   Yeah I had the same reaction. And I didn’t expect to see so many sex act images in the results. I felt like one of my callers.

4. 

   acilius

    /  June 24, 2009

   I keep doing the searches because I keep thinking I’ve lost my ability to be shocked. But nope, no such thing. The first result for “man” when I searched this morning was a guy smiling, looked like he was at a conference. As you’d expect, a very wide variety of pictures followed. Some demeaning, most not. The first result for “woman” was someone having sex with two men at once.

5. 

   cymast

    /  June 25, 2009

   It’s been said the interenet was the best thing that happened to porn.

6. 

   cymast

    /  June 25, 2009

   By the way, is “interenet” (with 3 “e”s) a word, A? If it is, that’s what I meant to type.

7. 

   acilius

    /  June 25, 2009

   It isn’t listed in any of the online dictionaries indexed by onelook, but that never stops me!

8. 

   cymast

    /  June 25, 2009

   “Interenet” really seems like it should be a word, along with “aforementionate(d).”

9. 

   acilius

    /  June 25, 2009

   Or “aforementiontated.”

10. 

    cymast

     /  June 25, 2009

    And “aforementionstated.”