Is Filtering Software a Good Thing?

Some may find it odd that I work in porn and have no filtering software on my computer to protect my precious baby from images too mature. In the households of other adult Industry professionals, I'm sure the blocking software is up and running 24/7.

I've told her the little signs to look for in order to prevent her from encountering people or images she's not matured enough to deal with. I told her that when she's in a chat room, never to accept private messages, especially the ones that ask: "M or F"? I've instructed her not to ever give out her real name and to use nicknames that do not reveal her sex. She knows not to give out her address or even the name of the town she lives in to anyone.

When she does a keyword search on an engine, she just doesn't click on return results that have descriptions like: Hot, nasty, sluts, live xxx, fuck me baby baby now! In fact, I may be the luckiest parent in the world because my kid hates chatrooms except the one she built herself. Porn doesn't interest her. My luck may have to do more with the fact that she's a girl child than my sage instruction, but nevertheless our computer remains porn filter free.

This does not mean I am against filtering software. I am fully supportive of parents that implement the use of the technology on their home computers. They know their kids and they have every right to use whatever means necessary to protect them from content they are not ready to view.

There's an element of the adult Internet that doesn't care who visits their page. That element is complied of sleaze bags, pedophiles and webmasters who are barely older than the children they lure in with storybook keywords. For those of us that like to look in our mirrors, children have no business visiting our adult pages. Adult sites are for adults. Period.

Adding links to porn blockers shows that you are a responsible adult site owner. You are telling the world that you don't want kids on your page any more than their parents do. Simply posting linked banners to porn blockers is a righteous step for you as an adult webmaster, but to be a truly righteous porn peddler, you need to take the next step. You need to add your site to the database of these filtering systems.

When you voluntarily add your site a filtering database, that means that kids who use computers with filters will not be subjected to your content. Addition has another benefit for you. It helps you with search engine placement.

Even if a search engine doesn't list your site primarily, the more you are linked on other sites and databases, the more likely your site will appear in keyword results for your type of content. People who do not use filtering software are more likely to find your site because you will be in these databases. Adults, who turn their filtering software off will find you also. Here are the names and URLs to the site submission pages of most used filtering systems:

Net Nanny
http://www.netnanny.com/home/net_nanny_4/submit_a_site.asp

Cybersitter
http://www.cybersitter.com/submit.htm

Surf Control
http://www.surfcontrol.com/resources/filtering_categories/submit-a-site/index.html

We-Blocker
http://www.we-blocker.com/submit/index.shtml

On all of these sites, you will be able to download a button that you can post on your warning page. You will also find suggestions for the language you apply to your warning page.

Being in the database of filtering software services doesn't keep of age, willing porn surfers off your page. It keeps those who would rather not see sexual content from being offended when they hit your site by accident.

If you owned an automotive parts store, why on earth would you want those looking for bath products to walk through your door? The same logic applies to filtering software. Not only do kids not belong on your site; they don't have money to spend there anyway. Bandwidth is a precious thing. Get the customers that want to buy on your site and let the kids go where the kids belong.