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Vagina Museum

Here's the image in question, which Google thinks is sexually explicit.

It's the panel from a comic about the "discovery" of the clitoris by Anita Zaramella!

Three panels of a comic.

Panel 1: A picture of a white, bald, bearded man with long hair at the back. Although his hairstyle is old-fashioned, he is wearing sunglasses and smirking sassily. "Meet Realdo Colombo. In 1559, this Italian anatomist claimed to have discovered the clitoris! Then promptly died. For unrelated reasons."

Panel 2: Illustration of a frowning white woman pointing at a large floating vulva. Other hands surround the vulva, also pointing at it. Little emphasis lines highlight the clitoris. "We'll start by saying obviously Colombo didn't discover the clitoris. Anyone with one probably noticed it was there since it was right there."

Panel 3: Three people, one in ancient Greek dress, one in ancient Persian dress, and one in historic Arabic dress all scowl and point upwards at panel 2, in the direction of the vulva diagram. "It also wasn't like Colombo was the first anatomist to point out the clitoris - it was known about since antiquity among Greek, Persian and Arabic anatomists, on account of it being RIGHT THERE.
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Lulu Helle :partyparrot:

@vagina_museum Google being a prude

Vagina Museum

We don't know whether Google has taken to using some utterly useless automated tools to detect "sexually explicit" content, or the image was maliciously reported - these are both struggles that we've had in the past. And once again, we wearily have to sigh "oh come ON" and request a manual review.

:manjaro: The Dweller of the Threshold

@vagina_museum that beard, and those sunglasses, together with that Italian family name, is smth utterly pornographic…

Vagina Museum

If your interest is piqued and you'd like to read the rest of the comic, you can find the other three pages over in our resources section, because Google hasn't taken *those* down. vaginamuseum.co.uk/learning/re

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@vagina_museum I once posted a link to a Guardian article on an American weight loss site and it was reported and deleted because there was a photo - taken from the side - of a naked woman in the article.

I was very irritated by this.

Giovanni

@vagina_museum you could also be more explicit and trustworthy than this.
it's been the admins or alleged equivalents, not the bots. There are evidences that if in at least 2015 you wrote any kind of phrase on the Mozilla search bar you'd have had unwanted and arbitrary feedbacks over the internet. Do you need someone to tell you what are we talking about?

Rachel Rawlings

@giovi69 @vagina_museum

Mansplaining to the vagina museum in a thread about censorship of the clitoris.

Achievement get! Blocked!

suldrew 🚲🏳️‍🌈

@vagina_museum TIL!

Andromeda Yelton

@vagina_museum “For unrelated reasons” 😂

(((o))) Acoustic Mirror

@vagina_museum "for unrelated reasons" 😂 😂 😂

Ellie

@vagina_museum I wonder whether $goog is upset about the text in the left frame more than the anatomy in the right frames.

Alexander The 1st

@vagina_museum Now I'm half wondering how much you need to Barbie Doll Anatomy it to have it not be flagged, because that's...not very distinctively the thing they're flagging.

Like, this is probably immature of me, but I can't help thinking they'd flag a Magatama from Ace Attorney ( aceattorney.fandom.com/wiki/Ma ) placed against skin tone.

(Also, I thought Colombo was Columbus, and had to double take on the panel.)

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