Sex not rampant on the Interweb

ACCORDING TO A STUDY taken from Google and Microsoft's internet indexes, only about 1% of all websites on the net contain sexually explicit material.

The analysis was shown during a federal court hearing in Philadelphia last week thanks to a suit by the American Civil Liberties Union against the U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The study was commissioned by the Justice Department tied in with an effort to bring back the Children's Online Protection Act signed by former President and accused Lech Clinton in 1988, but was challenged by the ACLU.

Lead by Uni Boffin Philip B. Stark (naked?), the study found that as little as 6% of all searches online returned a sexually explicit webpage - even despite the many, many, many "sex" queries. Not only this, but the study found that filters designed to guard innocent web users from naughty pages often blocked plenty of content which was not explicit in the slightest.

The lawsuit, which is well matured at eight years old, sparked debate last year after Google said an outright "No!" to handing over billions of website URLs and two months of search queries to government attorneys, reports Silicon Valley.

While only one percent of all web pages contain sexually explicit material, we at the INQ would speculate that 70% of all PCs contain sexually explicit material. µ