BBC iPorn

I was looking at the BBC iPlayer earlier this week and was amused to see the top two most popular shows played on the iPlayer. Top of the list was 'Page Three Teens'  (an everyday tale of teenage girls that want to be page 3 models), closely followed in second place by 'Glamour Girls' (an everyday tale of teenage girls that want to be glamour models). It's funny that the internet has the capacity to reduce even the most respected of organisations to purveyors of smut.

It reminds me of the definition of 'earth' in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 'harmless', which was revised by Ford Prefect to read 'mostly harmless'. If the internet had been listed in the Hitchhiker's Guide its definition would probably have been 'porn' and with the advent of web 2.0, social networking sites etc would probably have been revised to 'mostly porn'.

Footnote 1 - if you check the BBC iPlayer most popular list now then some integrity has been restored.

Footnote 2 - I imagine that some people searching for 'porn' online today will find this post instead and be most disappointed; I might have to turn the comments off!