But, Dude. It’s Just Not True.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 6:49 PM

Parasite websites lifting young people’s graphic photos at alarming rate

"The Internet Watch Foundation came across more than 12,000 photos in 47 hours, and 88% were on parasites. Deleting photos from Facebook, Twitter may no longer suffice."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/porn-sites-lifting-kids-graphic-pictures-alarming-rate-article-1.1190588#ixzz2AEvaheXE

10/23/2012 @ 5:26PM

Study: Most Private Porn Photos and Videos End Up Online

"A study by Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) concludes that 88 percent of self-generated, sexually explicit online images and videos are eventually stolen and uploaded to other websites.

The study analyzed more than 12,000 sexually explicit images uploaded by young people and found that the great majority of images had been stolen and published to what the researchers call “parasite” websites."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/10/23/study-most-private-porn-photos-and-videos-end-up-online/

Youngsters! People might watch your personal porn!

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2012/10/youngsters-people-might-watch.html 

Sexting teenagers easy prey for porn sites

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/sexting-teenagers-easy-prey-for-porn-sites-20121023-282ec.html

Intimate photos and videos being stolen for porn sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20019519

Young people are warned they may lose control over their images and videos once they are uploaded online

http://www.iwf.org.uk/about-iwf/news/post/334-young-people-are-warned-they-may-lose-control-over-their-images-and-videos-once-they-are-uploaded-online

Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 01:00 AM +0100

Your homemade porn is safe

"The media's abuzz about a salacious study that says most amateur porn unwittingly lands online. It's just not true

Now here’s a headline that will make many hearts stop: “Study: Vast Majority Of Homemade Porn, Private Photos End Up Online.” CBS alarmingly reports today that “The vast majority of homemade pornography and private images on personal computers ends up on public websites called ‘parasites.’” To which I exclaimed a string of expletives that I won’t repeat here.

But, dude. It’s just not true."

"I can’t help thinking that the seemingly willful misinterpretation of this study’s findings reflects our supreme discomfort with the idea of teens self-producing sexual content. We can comprehend the idea of minors being abused by “monsters,” but less so the possibility of teens being sexual actors who are nonetheless capable of being exploited. We’re much more comfortable with the puritanical schadenfreude of watching other adults punished for their private sexual exploits — whether it’s a celebrity or the Zumba instructor next door."

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/your_homemade_porn_is_safe/

Thu, Oct 25th 2012

Statistical Stupidity: 95% Of All Lazy Journalists Believe That 88% Of All Homemade Porn Ends Up Online

"If you read that first sentence, the one that says that 88% of all homemade pornography ends up online, and didn't immediately begin laughing at the sheer silliness of that number, you're a stronger person than I am. Now, granted, being both a horribly ugly pasty white and being, at best, mildly attractive, I'm not someone prone to taking pictures of my man-junk, nor mid-coitus. But what the hell? Eighty-eight percent? There's no way that could possibly be true."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121024/08422420809/statistical-stupidity-95-all-lazy-journalists-believe-that-88-all-homemade-porn-ends-up-online.shtml