Making Technology Sexy

How frequently have you read a sexually connotated article in one of the online Technology News web sites that was ranked highly by Google? The answer to that question is... rarely. Is it because technology is not sexy? Can it be that the readers of these technology news sites are not interested in sex? No... Another possible explanation is editorial censorship. If that is the likely reason, here is an interesting correlation between the technology news web sites and sex.

"I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it." ~ Mae West

According to Wikipedia, MAE West is a "network access point" that handles, by some estimates, as much as 40 percent of the nation's Internet traffic. The MAE (short for Metropolitan Area Ethernet) is the second-busiest intersection in cyberculture. Mae West, the global sex symbol of the 1920's, 30's, 40's and 50's brought the first sexually connotated subject material to the general public. Eighty years ago , she was arrested on charges of public obscenity for putting up SEX on a Broadway marquee.

As you can see, both of the above two Mae West have been catalyst for revolutions. The Mae West, "network access point" is a driving force for the information and knowledge-based revolution. Mae West, the sex symbol was instrumental in allowing the delivery of sexual content in today's mass media.

Wikipedia states that Mae West's Film, She Done Him Wrong (1933), had fans going wild over the sexy starlet because she was something that was unheard of and dramatically different from anything presented before. It is safe to say that Mae West, the network access point has delivered a similar response from the general public for the same reason.
Source: zdnet.co.uk