# A fond farewell to RateMyBoobies.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626 "2005-08-04T21:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/1 "2005-08-04T21:57:58Z")
\ Well, it seems that the nice folks over at [ratemyboobies.com](http://ratemyboobies.com) have closed up shop and left us voyeurs in the lurch. They’re blaming this on Dubya and regulations instituted by Alberto Gonzales. It couldn’t POSSIBLY be that they’ve just grown tired of boobies? And, don’t get me wrong… GrizzWife has quite a nice set on her as well! She saw no harm in me visiting the site as it was just harmless fun. \ ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/2 "2005-08-04T22:02:40Z")
> [@GrizzRich](#): > > … it was just harmless fun. Wait! No one told me **harmless** ever posted there! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/3 "2005-08-04T22:15:28Z")
Thaaaaaaanks for the mammaries… ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/4 "2005-08-04T22:21:10Z")
Some of the galleries at [www.rotten.com](http://www.rotten.com) have also fallen victim to this peice of legislation. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/5 "2005-08-04T22:47:01Z")
What legislation? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/6 "2005-08-04T23:13:14Z")
Meanwhile, [ratemypenis.com](http://ratemypenis.com) is still alive and well. It probably won’t be the same type of thrills but it will alow you to switch sides and contribute thereby giving back some of the joy you received. You may even win a blue ribbon! ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/7 "2005-08-04T23:35:59Z")
I reiterate World Eater…what legislation? They have taken away free, harmless boobies. The cosmos, she will soon be out of whack (har). ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/8 "2005-08-05T00:06:36Z")
Here is what appears on the pages of [www.rotten.com](http://www.rotten.com): > [@](#): > > CENSORED BY US GOVERNMENT > 18 USC 2257 > > Yes, that is correct. The things that used to be here, the very funny things that you want to see, have been made retroactively illegal by the US government, in a side-handed attack on the pornography industry. > > The government is mandating that we meet certain bookkeeping requirements, ones impossible to meet for this site. Never mind that those requirements do not actually gain the public anything. This is the strongest attack on free speech since the passage of the CDA, and oddly, the media seems to have hardly noticed. The penalty for not abiding by these bookkeeping requirements is five years prison. > > The regulations were promulgated by Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney General appointed by George Bush. If you voted for Bush, this is your fault. If you think this country is free, you are sadly mistaken. No nation has freedom when it is run by religious zealots. > > Regulations effective 24 June 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/9 "2005-08-05T00:43:36Z")
But I just found out that the site existed. Damnit!!! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/10 "2005-08-05T00:52:31Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Here is what appears on the pages of [www.rotten.com](http://www.rotten.com): It’s on ratemyboobies, not rotten. Unless it’s on some sub-page of rotten I didn’t see. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/11 "2005-08-05T01:00:04Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Here is what appears on the pages of [www.rotten.com](http://www.rotten.com): At a quick glance, the practice was instituted to tighten down on potential child porn. Not quite an horrible attack, of course is not cutting into my bottom line either. Link to US code in question > **[18 U.S. Code § 2257 - Record keeping requirements](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257)** ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/12 "2005-08-05T01:28:09Z")
I get it. It would appear that [ratemyboobies.com](http://ratemyboobies.com) needs to have physical proof that each pair of boobies belongs to an adult, has to have it available at their premises, wherever that is, and has to attach the location of their premises to anything available to the public. It seems that this will be impossible for a site like ratemyboobies, but fairly easy for, say hustlerdotcom or hotasianteens. I wonder if that’s what the law was intended to do. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/13 "2005-08-05T01:55:27Z")
And yet ratemycameltoe is still up and running. Maybe they found a small crevice in the law upon which to base their site. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/14 "2005-08-05T02:00:52Z")
> [@Osip](#): > > At a quick glance, the practice was instituted to tighten down on potential child porn. > > Not quite an horrible attack, of course is not cutting into my bottom line either. > > Link to US code in question > > [18 U.S. Code § 2257 - Record keeping requirements | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute](http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002257----000-.html) Sorry, that’s bullshit, Osip. Commercial child porn in the US is already dead as the dodo. The cops have had every tool they ever wanted to get rid of child porn. Show me the flourishing US child porn websites. You can’t, they aren’t there. What child porn exists in the US is peddoes trading pics, and the reg does fuck-all about that. It was always aimed straight at censoring adult stuff on the Web, and it’s working too. Child porn. Piffle. Some people would salute the Cops-can-rape-your-wife Act so long as it was labelled “against child porn.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/15 "2005-08-05T02:28:49Z")
We’re getting into Great Debate territory but I’m sure the legislators involved realized this law would have no effect on child porn, which is already illegal and virtually non-existent on the internet or any other source for mainstream porn. This law was probably intended as an attack on mainstream porn - not by banning it outright, which might have raised a First Amendment stir, but by passing regulations that are intentionally difficult to comply with. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/16 "2005-08-05T02:33:53Z")
Excellent! I am sure that this will finally curtail the desire that people have to see nudity. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/17 "2005-08-05T04:29:34Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > And yet ratemycameltoe is still up and running. > > Maybe they found a small crevice in the law upon which to base their site. Huh? Rate…My…Cameltoe? \ Brother, remind me to buy you a drink at Pacers! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/18 "2005-08-05T04:31:37Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Excellent! I am sure that this will finally curtail the desire that people have to see nudity. Yes. Desire to see naked boobies fading…fading…fading… ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/19 "2005-08-05T04:38:57Z")
File that thought under Chance, Fat. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/20 "2005-08-05T13:35:16Z")
> [@Osip](#): > > At a quick glance, the practice was instituted to tighten down on potential child porn. Ha ha, no. –Cliffy [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626.md?page=2)