I don’t have the energy to find out who is going where or where where is even, but man…I go to check Cecils column and the page is covered with ads for penis enlargement?
really?
anyway, I apologize if this is the wrong forum…
I’m just seeing Dish network ads, although I’m sure the ads change and aren’t the same for every person. Penis enlargement ads sound kinda of strange, though. Have you checked your system for malware?
Yeah, tried it from two different boxes…both checked and virus scan up to date. Maybe it really just thinks I need help…you would think the wife woulda told me.
Have you still got it in your browser cache? Can you go into offline mode and take a screenshot? The owners of this board may be very interested in stuff like this.
Wait, that didn’t sound right. 
Let me rephrase that.
What I meant is, if their ad delivery service breached contract and injected non-approved content into their website, any proof or details (ad banner address, company name, product type etc.) may be interesting to those who are responsible for this site.
At least, you guys could try requesting the traffic data and have some fun tracking down all the users who clicked on the ad. 
You didn’t really ask a question. What’s the question?
Clearly the members of this board do not need penis enlargement.
seems to have gone away. Guess I’m ok then…
Well, yeah, except for your poor small penis… 
d&r
They are using Google ads, which selects ads dynamically based on the content of the page they are on. I’m not sure but I’m guessing a recent reprint of the straight dope classic: “Does a pig have a corkscrew-shaped penis?” which still appears on the main page today, caused their relevance-guessing algorithm to think penis enlargement ads are just what the readership here wants to see.
We’re going on to other Cecil topics that are not so sexually oriented – we did have a couple weeks there that’s all we did, that was a chapter in the first Straight Dope book, all sex all the time – so the links should be changing accordingly.
It should be back to only occasionally shocking/disturbing stuff as it was earlier.
You mean you consider penis enlargement ads normal and in accordance to the current context of Cecil’s columns on the main page?
I thought I remembered that when this site introduced more ads, someone expressly stated the Straight Dope was supposed to have a family-friendly ad package (more or less. non-reproductive-organ-related, definitely.) and we were asked to report anything that seemed out of place so that they could fine-tune their ad category subscriptions?
Its a pretty understandable match. Google reads the page before it selects the ads and if any ads have a word or two that match a word on the current page they get displayed. As mentioned in an earlier post the main page contains the column: "Does a pig have a corkscrew-shaped penis? " so you can see how an ad that includes the word penis might be sorted to the top of the list. In much the same way:
Cecil Gordon Lawson
Gallery specializes in the sale & purchase of paintings by Lawson
and
Straight Screwdriver
Buy Electric Screwdrivers Here! IR and AIMCO Electric Screwdrivers
are considered relevant too.
As the content of the page changes so will the ads. I think you’re right that they can refuse specific ads if they want to take it up with Google. But I’m not sure that many people reading up on pig penises were outraged by this.