Thoughts on hardcore images/banners/videos on industry sites

[jdoughs]

In a couple posts on the boards this week about porn images on industry sites (like AVN, XBIZ, Messages Boards etc) I was talking about not allowing hardcore images or banners anywhere on the site.

I think it makes much more sense to have the site available to be used whether you/we are at home, work, the coffee shop, an airplane, whatever. I often get pissed off if I want to work at night on something and can never really do it as there is wide open hardcore porn on most of the sites or tools I use or like to frequent, and since I'm also a husband and a father, it's just not practical (and it should be).

Anyways, I'm curious everyones thoughts on this, and I've decided to NEVER allow an advertiser to use any hardcore imagery on the ad spots that we offer. I guess I'm also interested in your opinions on that too..haha.

This forum may be excluded from that, and I think that would be fine to, but the tool itself should be clean enough to use without much stress at any location.

[CarlosTheGaucho]

Totally agree,

Actually never got the relation of explicit stuff with B2B, you sell what makes money, but why would you want to forget the public attitude towards it.

Remember I used to read AVN back in the day in the subway, had to cover every second page not to look like a perv or something, although the ads were at least soft, still very explicit though. Worse experience when a certain German magazine publisher sent me "Free Samples" of his B2B magazine and the stuff inside was simply horrid.

I'm not homophobic, but I sure don't need to see close ups of bear on bear, all kinds of fetishes I never thought even do exist etc. with what is supposed to be a B2B article..

Threw it out immediately, maybe some of the prudent neighbors found it in the trash can and explored their inner selves