Google Trends, a new service offered by the search engine, provides a way to demonstrate how difficult it is to banish forbidden yearnings from the heads of Muslims. By entering the term "sex" into Google Trends, one obtains a ranked list of cities, countries and languages in which the term was entered most frequently. According to Google Trends, the Pakistanis search for "sex" most often, followed by the Egyptians. Iran and Morocco are in fourth and fifth, Indonesia is in seventh and Saudi Arabia in eighth place. The top city for "sex" searches is Cairo. When the terms "boy sex" or "man boy sex" are entered (many Internet filters catch the word "gay"), Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are the first four countries listed.
from Love, Lust and Passion: Sex & Taboos in the Islamic World: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,443678,00.html
Diederik observes: "One wonders what people think browsing for the terms will get them. We have no idea. Maybe the browsing itself is an identity act enough for them. The Results may be immaterial. And I would add that they mostly are. How many times do they google "Foucault identitarianism Butler performance theory 2006?"
Posted by Stubbornson at October 25, 2006 06:37 AM