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[CobaltKobold]

Attractiveness of bodyparts is offtopic. Take it elsewhere, please.

Well... if someone's looking up Oral Sex in the first place... odds are they already know about it and are just checking to see if the dictionary does.

to play devil's advocate a moment, anything that gets you to that page, be it looking up another word or just reading the dictionary, is a 'risk'.

...What, haven't you ever read dictionaries for fun? >,,>

[Leafsnail]

...You're saying that someone who just happens to be innocently looking up the word "Oral" might be irreparably corrupted by seeing the Oral Sex entry?

[CobaltKobold]

I'm saying that you don't specifically need to be looking up "oral sex" to encounter it in the dictionary. Not agreeing with the corrupting part.

Also, "oracular".

[Leafsnail]

Ok, so a second grader is randomly looking up the word "oracular".  They like this word, and decide to randomly look through all words which start with the same three letters. I suppose it's just about possible, but it seems far more likely that the kid would get an explicit result on, say, the internet after typing in random words.

[CobaltKobold]

Ah yes one of the words that is a casualty of censorship- "explicit"
Beware! This material says what it means!

[Taco Dan]

Clearly nobody has discovered that piece of smut yet! Tell an adult and FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T OPEN THE BOOK

I sort of already read the entire book, it's not bad.

[smigenboger]

On a side note, I played kobold camp and had one that likes cobalt XD

[Vector]

@Leafsnail: Difficult given the circumstances in which I find myself entrenched, but thank you.

Ok, so a second grader is randomly looking up the word "oracular".  They like this word, and decide to randomly look through all words which start with the same three letters. I suppose it's just about possible, but it seems far more likely that the kid would get an explicit result on, say, the internet after typing in random words.

My family has a "rule:" Whenever you look up a word, you must also need to look up the words above and below it.  This is how I found out about incest.  I think it's a bit less likely to accidentally find stuff on the internet, especially if safe search is on--i.e., that should throw out Urban Dictionary and whatever.

I mean, come on--do you really spend that much time typing random words into Google?  I don't know about y'all, but my searches don't typically end up with pornography (though to be fair, there was some definite furry going on at a blog I stumbled on after looking for "Victorian flower symbolism").

[Cthulhu]

On a side note, I played kobold camp and had one that likes cobalt XD

It's funny because the name for Cobalt comes from Kobold.

[Leafsnail]

I don't know about y'all, but my searches don't typically end up with pornography (though to be fair, there was some definite furry going on at a blog I stumbled on after looking for "Victorian flower symbolism").

Mine do .  And safesearch only works on images - very little stuff is blocked in the web search.

[Jackrabbit]

On a side note, I played kobold camp and had one that likes cobalt XD

It's funny because the name for Cobalt comes from Kobold.

Well done.

[Duke 2.0]

 Huh, I'm sure this is old, but apparently a Virgina school banned the Diaries of Anne Frank because they had the version that included the thoughts Anne had that I'm sure every teenager thought of when they had little time for the Birds and the Bees.
 This actually doesn't seem that bad, as the point of reading those is to see how the Nazis effected a normal girl rather than reading the diary of a teenager. Still, get some new books already. Just say to the offended parents "Alright, we got the mistake. We'll get a different version" rather than a whole mess around banning a book.

[Vector]

Huh, I'm sure this is old, but apparently a Virgina school banned the Diaries of Anne Frank because they had the version that included the thoughts Anne had that I'm sure every teenager thought of when they had little time for the Birds and the Bees.

Because every twelve-year-old asks her best friend if they can touch each other's breasts, right? 

I don't know about y'all, but my searches don't typically end up with pornography (though to be fair, there was some definite furry going on at a blog I stumbled on after looking for "Victorian flower symbolism").

Mine do .  And safesearch only works on images - very little stuff is blocked in the web search.

Ah, but there's commercial website-blocker thingers, often employed by school districts.  Dunno how you're ending up with so much porn, though... probably has something to do with the different things we search for.

[Duke 2.0]

Huh, I'm sure this is old, but apparently a Virgina school banned the Diaries of Anne Frank because they had the version that included the thoughts Anne had that I'm sure every teenager thought of when they had little time for the Birds and the Bees.

Because every twelve-year-old asks her best friend if they can touch each other's breasts, right? 

More common than you think.

 Also, not even web filters are safe for that stuff. There is a major difference between porn sites and people with personal blogs with sexual art styles. That difference being that one is hard to block and the other is rather easy.

[CobaltKobold]

Thread topic has veered rather far off...
Blockers are/were laughable, since I recall other students being savvy enough to bypass them.

Huh, I'm sure this is old, but apparently a Virgina school banned the Diaries of Anne Frank because they had the version that included the thoughts Anne had that I'm sure every teenager thought of when they had little time for the Birds and the Bees.
 This actually doesn't seem that bad, as the point of reading those is to see how the Nazis effected a normal girl rather than reading the diary of a teenager. Still, get some new books already. Just say to the offended parents "Alright, we got the mistake. We'll get a different version" rather than a whole mess around banning a book.

This kind of censorship is arguably worse, because it is often harder to detect. I'll revisit how I once looked at six "unabridged" (but translated) versions of The Count of Monte Cristo. No two had the same chapter count.