Clinical Web Site May Be Target 0f Porn Seekers
“It seems that online dermatological images, intended as a references for doctors, are sometimes being used pruriently. The idea that a searchable archive of clinical photographs was being misused first occurred to the site’s curators when they noticed a marked jump in queries for images of genital areas. In light of this, Dr. Christoph U. Lehmann and colleagues, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, emphasize in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology that ‘anonymous misuse of collaborative archives must be anticipated, addressed and prevented to preserve their integrity and the integrity of the learning communities they support.’ The researchers assessed request patterns received by the site over a 6-month period, in terms of diagnosis, age group and anatomic site. Of the more than 7800 dermatological images available on the site, 5.5 percent involve genital regions. However, 12 percent of queries for a specific diagnosis involved a genital area. Also, 37 percent of the requests for an anatomic site involved a genital region, and 12 percent of the 10,000 free text queries were for images of genitalia. In searches that specified both an age group and an anatomic site, images involving children were 48 percent more likely to be requested than those involving an adult. An analysis of the top 43 referring sites to the dermatology service revealed that 9 (21 percent) were pornographic/fetish sites. However, these sites only accounted for 14.3 percent of all 141,285 referrals.” — Yahoo (US)
(Thanks to Erect for the link.)
If you’re old enough to have undergone adolescence without the internet, you’ll recall how difficult it was to obtain porn. If you were lucky you could find some stash of Penthouse magazines in an uncle’s attic. If you were unlucky you found yourself hoarding old issues of National Geographic and jerking off to pictures of tribal “hotties” with sun-baked mammaries and ivory disks in their lips. And that’s all this business about clinical web sites being used as porn amounts to — the contemporary equivalent of people taking what they can get. Presumably software programs intended to prevent children and library patrons from accessing hardcore porn don’t filter out dermatological web sites. That’s all.
Or is it? This story would certainly gain in interest if people were not turning to medical web sites out of desperation but rather out of deliberation. Are there fetishists who experience intense excitement at the sight of rashes? Are there weirdos who get off on moles, liver spots, genital warts? Are there devotees of psoriasis, shingles, diaper rash, poison ivy? If the internet has taught us anything about sexuality, it’s that there may well be a perv for every imaginable kink, and perhaps even for a few unimaginable ones — which means that, however inconceivable it may be to you or to a dermatologist, there may well be people who experience abnormal sexual responses at the sight of monkeypox and scabies.
It could be that people with skin concerns on their genitals are more likely to research online — thoroughly — before they head to the doctor. Moles, splotches and rashes and so on are much scarier when they show up on your genitals than on your elbow.
Of course, the fetish and pornographic site referrals do suggest otherwise … LOL
When I was a kid porn was higher quality. The pictures were all highly professional film photos taking by real pros. The amount of detail in an image was much higher than the crap you find online. And a lot of non-porn magazines had pages and pages of hardcore porn advertisements in the back pages. They’d cover some things withy tiny stars but everything was clearly visible.
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