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Friday Dec 11, 2009

TheSite.org gets spanked by YouTube

What would you do if YouTube banned one of your videos?

I had to think about this when an email pinged into my inbox the other day telling me that our video, 'Bondage for Beginners' had infringed the YouTube Community Guidelines and been removed. The horror!

We've been building a steady YouTube presence (youtube.com/thesitevideos) for over a year now, and I thought it would be useful to repurpose some of our advice podcasts for the YouTube audience. So using a few select photos our Multimedia Assistant, Chris 'Deviant' Denholm, crafted a simple but effective photo illustration for the podcast.

The video was uploaded and the viewers started watching. Quite a lot in fact; it quickly became one of our most viewed videos. It was pleasing to see so many people were getting some cracking advice about bondage.

However, it seems even guidance videos can fall foul of the censors these days. The email I received cited 'nudity' as the reason for the video being banned. I watched the video again, eager to see writhing bodies and full frontal action! Strangely, I couldn't find any. All I got was good, safe advice about trying out bondage with a partner.

Judge for yourself and watch the video...

I still haven't heard back from YouTube about whether this was an oversight or whether they really don't like young people learning about bondage.

Maybe they didn't like seeing a dog in a Star Trek outfit – he's in the buff after all!

Chris 'Whip-crack' Chapman,
TheSite.org's Multimedia Editor

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