Academic

Never More Than A Few Clicks Away

By Ann Bartow

Supercynic writes:

… I noticed that my post about how the Southeastern Conference?s website sucks because it takes a computer equivalent of Indiana Jones to find out the latest tennis results had an unusually high readership. It hit me that in that post I mentioned how, no matter where you are on the Internet, you?re 3-4 clicks away from being on a porn site, but you can?t find out about SEC tennis on the SEC?s website. Because I used the word ?porn,? that post picked up a lot of traffic. So, I?m going to perform a little experiment. Below is a boring story with the word ?porn? sprinkled in. I?ll report later on the site traffic if my theory proves right. Here we go. Today, I helped (porn) clean my mom?s yard. She lives about a mile away from me and (naked pictures … ) she lost several trees in the tornado we recently experienced.  ….

He later notes that his blog stats are climbing precipitously. Disappointed surfers can probably find actual porn one or two clicks later. If you can actually manage to stay 3 to 4 clicks away from unwanted Internet porn, you are lucky. This blog gets hit with hundreds of attempted porn linked “comments,” every day, and my e-mailbox is constantly filled with porn spam. I was therefore pleased to read this.

–Ann Bartow

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).