Adult Content on Publishing Sites

Some article publishing sites have a problem with adult content being published on their sites. Often in direct violation of their own content rules. Perhaps it is simply an issue of articles and photos slipping through their editing/publishing software but it needs to be addressed.

As a person with several articles published on the Internet, I find myself cautious when it comes to sharing links to my articles with my family and friends because I don’t know what graphic photos or suggestive titles will be displayed at the end of my article.

It also occurred to me – what if these publishing sites don’t know how to handle the adult content? If that is indeed the case then I would like to offer some suggestions:

1. Refuse to publish anything even remotely sexual in nature.
2. Refuse to link any photo containing the naked human body in whole or in part to any article.
3. Give users the option to refuse content based on keywords or categories, from displaying after their articles – Google Adsense has this option.
4. Create a separate site that hosts only controversially, adult content and keep it separate from their other sites – don’t link these articles to the other sites that publishing company maintains.
5. Manually review every submitted article for adult content based on keywords and deal with them individually.
6. Install an “inappropriate content” link after every published article that allows readers to easily flag content for review my administrators.
7. Automatically ‘bleep’ out suggestive keywords or graphic thumbnails, reveiling them only when clicked on.
8. The final and most drastic option available for publishers is to declare itself a adult site and/or offer a warning to people entering the site so they know they may be exposed to graphic images of naked individuals in various sexually explicit situations.

I understand the monetary profits that adult content can bring to a site that relies on advertising revenue. After all the suggestive nature of adult content is addictive and fulfills a basic human need – even for the moment.

I’m not against adult content but it should be contained in a restricted area, behind a warning page or require a double click before it becomes visible – to keep viewers from getting ‘flashed’.

These are simply my ideas for the adult content problem on the Internet. If you have any other ideas list them in the comment section.