Over a Third of the Internet Is Pornographic 247
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."
Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful)
The Internet is for porn.
Correction: 37% is NUDITY (Score:5, Insightful)
A lot of sites are nothing more than naked bodies. I'd estimate only about ~20% are actual porn (sex).
I wish people would stop confusing the two, because they are not the same.
no content (Score:4, Insightful)
And what if the random trivia is true? What if half the internet is for adults? Aren't half the people in the world adults? Why should they not have a representative portion of the internet? So we have to sanitize the world for the developmentally challenged that have never seen a real vagina or penis.
And then, what is pornographic? If I write a story with a plot and gratuitous sex scene is that pornographic? We want definitions.
This is just a useless piece of fluff intended to make people who aren't getting laid mess in their pants. Oh, think of the kids. Oh, Oh, the kids. We have to protect, the Oh, kids.
We already know that 99.99999% of the interent has no useful content. Yahoo is evidently becoming the ultimate porn site by advertising it is the place of entertainment news. Pretty soon the only safe place to be will be /. Even XKCD can't be trusted. Fuck.
"child protection projects at Optenet" (Score:4, Insightful)
"Ana Luisa Rotta, director of child protection projects at Optenet"
So they have a commercial interest in this topic and to make things even worse, they claim to be "child protection"... those are the worst. I don't trust this study or them at all.
Let me fix that summary for you (Score:3, Insightful)
When someone tries to sell you software to protect you from the evil porn that you might accidentally see on the internet, I'm not sure I'm gonna believe their claims of how much porn there is.
Te distinction should be made: (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Thats more porn... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Thats more porn... (Score:5, Insightful)
At first I thought, "no way" (Score:2, Insightful)
At first I thought, "no way", but then I considered that they were saying web pages, not web domains. No doubt, any single porn website might have thousands of individual pages, whereas most websites only have a few dozen. So yeah, I could see 37%.
Re:Thats more porn... (Score:5, Insightful)
I just wish they wouldn't try to outdo each other by making porn more extreme and less erotic in the process. Please stop the gross spitting and choking that seems to have taken over. That is about as sexy as a day at Gitmo.
Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY (Score:5, Insightful)
What difference does it make anyway?
Personally as long as i find the content i need, i don't care what else is there.
Re:How stupid. (Score:2, Insightful)
It treats the prostitutes as prostitutes, who -can- be murdered, robbed, or slept with, because freedom is the entire theme of the game.
It treats random woemn on the street as random women on the street. You can murder and rob them if you want to, but there's no unique incentive for it. They dress nicely. They talk to each other about their likes and dislikes. They have places to go. They dress differently in different areas. It's a rich, complex, and -satirical- simulation of a large city.
The two women who feature prominently in the plot of the game or almost entirely supportive of the player character and his cousin (who deserves less).
The player can write emails to his momma telling her how things are going. They always leave out the gritty details, because, as I think Russell Crowe said, "even bad men love their mommas". I'd say it's the second best game ever made, after Fallout 3.
Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY (Score:3, Insightful)
>>>porn and erotica
I don't see any difference. If there's a real or fake dick being inserted in a hole, or a pussy being licked, then it's sex and qualifies as "porn" for me. i.e. Not something I'd show children under age 13.
On the other hand nudity is just that - a body without clothes. Lots of cultures think nudity is acceptable, and a photo of that nudity is not "porn" (or evil as some Puritan-americans claim). I don't care if my kid sees it.
Re:How stupid. (Score:3, Insightful)
So prototype desensitizes me to jumping off the tops of buildings and gliding to the next one?
Re:Thats more porn... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Thats more porn... (Score:3, Insightful)
People "buy" porn? When did they start doing that again?
Porn is free for those who look, and has been for the better part of the last decade. It's so prevailant that it's difficult to avoid. The market is, for all intents and purposes, "saturated".
Porn is not like books, because books cost money to produce and can be sold for only so much. There are publisher controls on how many get printed each year, and so on, so as to not overwhelm customers and create a glut of supply.
Will the amount of porn go down? God no. But it is likely that the quality of "good" porn will go down as the amateurs take over with free, ad-supported content.
Re:Thats more porn... (Score:3, Insightful)
That depends very much what you mean by "good", which is why (I'm guessing) you put it in quotes. "Amateur" is an entire fetish of its own anyhow -- one which people pay for, oddly enough.
Re:How stupid. (Score:2, Insightful)
Wow, chalk up another one for Rule 34...
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Rule_34 [encycloped...matica.com]
Re:Thats more porn... (Score:5, Insightful)