# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/21 "2005-08-05T14:17:52Z")
Philly is preparing for a Benjamin Franklin festival. It’s clear what he’d have to say about this “The role of government is certainly to protect the helpless. But, it must also ensure the liberty of all citizens. When I flew that famous kite, I wasn’t only advancing science. I was learning new and better ways to talk women out of their clothing. Did we throw off the yoke of British tyranny so that our own government could force women to keep their bosoms covered? I say no! I say never! I have life. I demand the liberty to see breasts. I demand to be able to pursue the happiness that comes from looking at breasts. I demand breasts!” Moved by Ben’s spirit, I have this urge to go start a site RateMyLightningRod. Because, it isn’t enough to speak out in the cause of freedom. One must act. If you would protest this tyranny, if you would preserve our freedoms, then you must stand up and be counted. If you have a love of our country and its liberties in your heart, you must drop your pants and photograph your penis. When those lifeless bureaucrats see an army of bulbous cyclops, they will know that once again the freedom loving people of America have triumphed in defense of that noble dream, the United States Of America. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/22 "2005-08-24T02:55:58Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > 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.” Commercial child porn is dead? maybe, It has on the other hand, become quite the cottage industry > [@](#): > > From the late 1970s to the late 1990s the production and distribution of child pornography switched from a commercial to an amateur ‘cottage industry’ involving the swapping and sharing of images among pedophiles and other adults with a sexual interest in children. The development of computer technologies, and the Internet in particular, has blurred boundaries between commercial and amateur collectors and formed what has been called a new global cottage industry (Akdeniz, 1997). The Internet allows images of the sexual abuse of children to be distributed all over the world either as a gift, an exchange, or an item of commercial trade from here:[http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/Info\_Briefing/ChildPornography.asp](http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/Info_Briefing/ChildPornography.asp) Since I am unwilling to show you a flourishing US child porn websites, does not make your claim right. Hard to back and claim when Federal, State, local, The Chicago Reader, and the SDMB have rules laws and regulations against it. Hey the experts claim it is a multibillion industry. Here:[http://www.cybertipline.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en\_US&PageId=2064](http://www.cybertipline.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2064) And reports are It is growing Here:[http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3494241](http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3494241) You are correct, the regulation does “fuck-all” about such things. They do not stop a company from producing or selling images, just that they document that such images do not violate standing laws. The regulations does not stop showing boobies, anyone can show 10 thousand boobies, if they can document the age of each model in the image. I fear you may be correct in claiming some fools out there would support a "Cops-can-rape-your-wife Act " I do believe those number of morons to be a very very small group. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/23 "2005-08-24T03:13:47Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > 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! Hah! I just had to check, and [ratemypenis.com](http://ratemypenis.com) is _not_ a real site. It’s just one of those squatter sites that links to lots of ads. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/24 "2005-08-24T04:07:25Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Hah! I just had to check, and [ratemypenis.com](http://ratemypenis.com) is _not_ a real site. It’s just one of those squatter sites that links to lots of ads. Does this mean my blue ribbon is _worthless_??? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/25 "2005-08-24T05:13:20Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > Does this mean my blue ribbon is _worthless_??? If it’s blue, then the ribbon is too tight, and if it’s been that way for a while, then it just might be worthless. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/26 "2005-08-24T06:07:10Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Some of the galleries at [www.rotten.com](http://www.rotten.com) have also fallen victim to this peice of legislation. Oh my god, I just looked at that site. I am seriously disturbed. Yikes. - Honesty ---
**Author:** ![Cynical\_Optimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Cynical\_Optimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cynical_Optimist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/27 "2005-08-24T12:59:01Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > Oh my god, I just looked at that site. I am seriously disturbed. Yikes. > > - Honesty [Rotten.com](http://Rotten.com) is bad, [ogrish.com](http://ogrish.com) is worse. You have been warned. I don’t know about kiddie porn _websites_, but I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on Usenet. Sure you’ve got your “barely legal” teens but I’ve seen other images (sometimes in non-porn groups mind you) that made me use PGP’s file shredder. I just wish they made one for my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/28 "2005-08-24T13:08:39Z")
Well, flash your rack dot com is still online as of this morning. Or so I’ve heard. [innocent whistling…] ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/29 "2005-08-24T14:31:11Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > Oh my god, I just looked at that site. I am seriously disturbed. Yikes. > > - Honesty :eek: The “Failed Mission” link on the main [rotten.com](http://rotten.com) page made me not want breakfast! What did they shoot him with? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626/30 "2005-08-24T14:39:21Z")
That’s the legislation that was passed after Tracy Lord had her heyday. It is nothing new, however, Alberto may be cracking down more on enforcement. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fond-farewell-to-ratemyboobies-com/315626.md?page=1)