huh wrote:
quite easy. Most adult art and stories are not advertised or
flaunted and
can be avoided by those not wishing to see them.
Unfortunately, on the internet this is not true.
Hmm. Not sure about that. Every so often I type 'slash fanfic' into a search engine, which comes up with some good stuff, some crap, and some totally irrelevant stuff. It doesn't tend to link right to stories, but to warning pages saying 'go away if you don't like male/male erotica'--this is, after all, where you get the word 'slash', not in the stories. And a lot of b7 erotica online isn't linked to there, although you can get to it if you know where it is (ie you will get a link to one of Judith's pages mentioning that 'zines are slash or not, and you could look for her Online Fanfic linke.
OTOH, I haven't actually tried the typical teenager's trick of typing Rude Words into a search engine to find Rude Pages.
And every so often I get porn-spam in my e-mail. I was really shocked when yahoo (I think) was extremely apologetic about the 'offensive material'. It wasn't offensive in other than being spam (which is offensive enough). All right, it would have been offensive & annoying if spammer'd sent me a large jpeg of something I didn't like to watch, I suppose, but it was a typical 'here is our webpage if you like this sort of thing'. And yahoo instantly pulled their account and apologised profusely. Which is not their attitude when I get the more frequent spammus businessus. Bloody Americans!
But seriously I don't particularly find myself tripping over 'tits and bums' links on the average Google search. It's more relentless commercialisation that annoys me: you type in a couple of words and you're more likely to get adverts than pure info.
Cheers, Pred'x (...who thinks there's anything 'n' everything from porno to pomo on the internet, but it won't actually get caught in the search engine for a particular search unless a) someone put it there and b) the words you're looking for are in there...)