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Prince Albert, Wikipedia and some Shaved Balls, or, Wikipedia needs Adult Content Warnings
1Oct2007
Filed under: World of Research
Author: Dave
okay, so i’ve got a new beef with wikipedia - the absolute and total lack of adult content warnings…so let me tell you this little story, it’s kind of funny…
my older son and i have developed (as of late) a bit of a mildly raunchy rapport, something his mom might not go for..i remember what it was like to be in 8th grade, to see the nude scene in the movie while sitting in the same room as my parents, squirming, adjusting, hoping that the glow of the screen wasn’t bright enough to show the red face sitting just a few feet away…didn’t want to go through that exercise with the fruit of my own loin, so yeah, i told him about the shenis…
at any rate, i’m reading this book - fucking brilliant btw - called ‘foreskin’s lament’ by shalom auslander…about half-way through he uses this random expression during a diatribe on circumcision, jokes about having to shave his son’s balls and give him a prince albert…never heard that one before….
…so my boy is on the machine with his friend and i shout out, ‘hey, do me a favor, hit elgoog and type in ‘prince albert‘…he does, and voila, the first result up links to wikipedia! wikipedia is, of course, a favorite research tool used by all junior high (and elementary) students, teachers even talk about it as a resource, how to cite articles if used…
but do me a favor, would ya’? take a look at the entry for prince albert that turned up as the first result on google…
does it bug you that there’s no adult content warning on that? does it bug you that the real prince albert turns up halfway down the results page after the wiki article? are you wondering just how cozy wikipedia and google have become?
exactly….
so naturally i hit wikipedia and did searches for all sorts of shit (nipple piercing, mutual masturbation, anal sex (which leads to tons of shit, no pun intended), blowjob - which led directly via link to autofellatio and so on and so on and ditty ditty so on)…
is it time for wikipedia to enlist their editors to mark content as adult?? anybody listening???
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Lanecu
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:57 am
What exactly is your complaint? You’re reading a book called “Foreskin’s Lament” and a section on circumcision, shaving balls etc. In this context what did you imagine Price Albert might refer to…. at least a ballpark sense. The Google entry shows:
Prince Albert piercing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prince Albert piercing (PA) is one of the common forms of male genital piercing. The PA pierces the penis from the outside of the frenulum and into the …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_piercing - 36k
Nothing misleading there. In fact it is the information you want. What relevance does Queen Victoria’s husband and where you find him in Wikipedia have….? Nothing, except he was thought to have this piercing.
If it is the Wiki illustration you object to your son seeing (rather than simply the information)…. well, think about what you’re asking him to look up before you do so, rather than prudishly trying to restrict access to information.
Dave
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:29 am
sure, in context i figured it might be a lewd reference - BUT you’re missing the point: why is there no adult content warning on the site? registration doesn’t even support COPPA compliance…if it were text only, fine, but the site is littered with porn images…
considering they’ve got thousands upon thousands of volunteer editors on board, it would likely take them less than a few days to label all adult images/content with a simple youtube style ‘approve/confirm’ dialogue…
if you know anything about me at all, or have read anything from the past few years on this blog, then you know quite well that i am the very last person on earth who might encourage ‘prudishly trying to restrict access to information’ ;)