Safety Search: ON

Have you ever stumbled across something you didn't want to see?

If people want to see sex on the internet, they can find if fairly easily. Take the 'Safety Search' off Google, type in a kinky phrase appropriate to your tastes, and away you go.

What is truly annoying though is finding sexual content without trying. For example, I clicked on to my favourite videogame video-review one day to find it had some annoying sponsored video advert tacked on to the end. Yes, I know that these websites have to make money, but these ads are just plain annoying. In this case it was highly annoying, with a trailer for a movie called 'Young People F***ing'. Whilst I’m not a fan of the topic, what really bothered me is the fact it followed what should have just been a humorous review.

The stammering of the young people, pulled off the streets in some sunny American town to squirm while repeating the title for the camera, was followed by a trailer featuring various sexual scenes which weren’t too explicit (no, it’s not worth rushing off to YouTube and try and find it) but they were graphic enough to make me feel uncomfortable.

This visual sexual portrayal in an unexpected environment can really make you feel awkward. Sexual references and double entendres are fine from time to time, but when we get to images of writhing teenage stereotypes and graphic descriptions where they aren’t supposed to be, it gets annoying.

For example, when the pouty, female, early-20s stereotype whined that she “needs orgasms” to her male counterpart, it was all I could do not to scream “alright love, we all do, but you might want to invest in some new lock for your doors and windows because the rest of the world does not need to hear you saying that!” at the screen.

I don’t care if we all do it. I just don’t want to be surprised at the end of a (generally) sexually unrelated online video by some embarrassed and giggly young people trying to force out inappropriate words, followed by a few obviously less embarrassed young people trying to force out something else.

In fact, people with this viewpoint shouldn’t have to endure people writhing and proclaiming about their lack of “stimulation” in peculiar places

There will be some individuals reading this who disagree with my statement that 'we all do it'. These individuals are welcome to disagree with me. I know that there will be those out there with religious beliefs advising no sex until the right time, and those with a low sex drive. Some will doubtlessly have just seen what was written and spat their coffee out over their keyboard.

You are obviously all welcome to your opinions.

In fact, people with this viewpoint shouldn’t have to endure people writhing and proclaiming about their lack of 'stimulation' in peculiar places (I mean in places like the video review) either, and should probably be considered more before ads like that are placed.

Sex has a place on the internet, in the media, and in private. Personally, I don’t even have anything against pornography, but it needs to be obviously labelled, as most people who have inadvertently come across porn in an accidental Google search, by channel surfing, or by walking in on a housemate would probably agree.

I would also like to just rejoice in having almost certainly increased the traffic to The Yorker by including the words 'sex' and 'pornography' in this article.

The internet has its faults, but you can find pretty much anything if you search for it; so welcome to The Yorker all you randy individuals who were searching for more stickiness-inducing entertainment.

Stick around and read some articles, you might find your brain stimulated instead of your balls.

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