Where are the sex videos?

December 6, 2006 on 11:59 pm | In Computing |

Wired Magazine’s Regina Lynn writes about the fad to release one’s own sex video on the internet. It looks like an Iranian woman may even face capital punishment because of one of those.

Now any graphic medium in the history of mankind has been used to portray sex, think of the ornaments on Hindu temples, think of photographs in the US Civil War, think of video tapes, and think of the internet, of course. Therefore, the next logical step is to search the latest visual medium, YouTube, for sex. As exspected, I didn’t find any sexual intercourse portrayed as YouTube has a very strict policy concerning these things; the viewer has to confirm his/her maturity for clips that involve even mild nudity.

The most interesting result of my search, however, was this clip featuring a commercial by Chanel appearing on the first site of the results. It has currently 1220 ratings, shows up when the search string is “sex”, but doesn’t feature sex at all. In other words, it’s a good trap. Sex sells - and there are always people looking for it. Therefore it’s just logical to offer sexually tagged content on a “no sex”-medium and people will fall for it, probably also watch the whole add in hope to see some spicy features.

Maybe I should quit my research job, tag commercials as sexual content, and push it with votes on the front pages of Youtube for the rest of my life.