Use Of The Word 'Boy' In Domain/Site Names - Your Thoughts?

Given that a lot of traffic places now, including the big ones like Google are starting to frown upon the use of the word 'boy' in site names, what do you folks think about it?

I mean i know there is a lot of different meanings to the word when used in the adult industry but, as a site owner, do you feel this is a word that we could do without using because of the connotation that there *might* be something illegal going on?

I know we had a discussion about this a couple of years back and several of you noted that you didnt promote sites that included that word in the domain name and im just wondering if you had changed your policy on this?

Those of you who do use the word in your site names, may i ask why? Arent there plenty of other words that could be used instead to describe the type of content you have?

Regards,

Lee

what about the use of qualifiers in the domain? like 18yearoldboys.com or collegeboys.com or boysover18.com?

google, etc, won't take 'em, but i think they show that their intentions are legal.

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Originally Posted by basschick

what about the use of qualifiers in the domain? like 18yearoldboys.com or collegeboys.com or boysover18.com?

google, etc, won't take 'em, but i think they show that their intentions are legal.

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Why could those domains be something like....

18yearoldlads.com
collegelads.com
twinksover18.com

They would all be accepted by Google.

I dont know, im actually in two minds about this whole topic on one hand, i totally understand that the use of the word 'boy' when it comes to porn can (and is) considered to mean under the age of 18 by a lot of people not associated with the business.

On the other hand, i can see why people register domains with that word in them, for multiple reasons.

Regards,

Lee

I understand the use of words lad and twink instead of boy in a domain name. Not meaning to slightly change the topic but when I attempt writing SEO friendly reviews, I avoid the word boy and use young men instead."

With one site of mine, I am experimenting with http://Quantcast.com - I will allow it to read data for 90 days and see how realistic its visitor count is as compared to mine during that period.

Has only been recording real data a week. (45%) are in the U.S. The site is popular among a skewing older, largely male, mostly Caucasian, HH income up to $60k, more educated audience.

I attempted to edit, adding a comment, but I was too slow for the five minute countdown. Gosh I wish I could write quickly... but when I do, I have been drinking and quite opinionated (smile).

I added Quantcast to this topic because, as most know, most porn income is still generated by the USA. I do not think they would search for "lad".

I am sorry but in the gay community, which is my market, the term boy simply means a young looking male. It has nothing to do with underage kids...

Perhaps PETA will start getting involved against sites that use the term fucking a BEAR...implying that animal abuse is going on! WTF

The politically correct world we live in is actually THAT fucked up!

Lee

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Originally Posted by MiamiB

The politically correct world we live in is actually THAT fucked up!

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With you now living out of the USA, many of us still have certain BARS that we shoud not pole jump over.

How is life in Argentina? HOW much of your income still comes from the USA?

In my opinion, don't waste time agitating over something like that.

Use boy.

Come on. Maurice Chevalier, who at the time must have been in his 60s, opened the Academy Award winning movie Gigi prancing around singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"....

Say no to political correctness.

Steve

Google doesn't like "twinks" either, BTW.

They're really unnecessarily tightening the screws, and it makes it difficult to do business with sponsors... because if it's not in the domain name, it'll be in the text or graphics of the landing page. Which Google also pisses on.

I've asked some sponsors if they could create tours without the word "boys" but it never seemed to materialize. That's money left on the table.

we're kinda stuck, because in 2002, nobody gave much of a shit about "boy", but now with boysfeetclub.com and boyfunk.com.... it's a little hard to take the boy out of boyfunk. :)

We are seriously discussing alternate branding (creating a new tour, on a different domain, without objectionable language) and may well do that as we prepare our next revision of our sites.

I even use the word 'teenboy' in one of my website names. Do you really think once the use of words like 'boy', 'teen', 'teenboy' are banned by law, they would stop? Twink, lads and the like would be the next on their list of witch hunt. You ought to draw a line somewhere. I wouldn't stop calling a teenboy a teenboy just because it could be 'indicating' something which is not true. The true criminals have always used secret words to cover up their illegal activities.

I think the 'ban' on words like 'teen' and 'boy' simply has some kind of economical reason. Those words have been declared unacceptable because their filter systems always disintegrated into smoke and they had to go through everything manually. It simply involves to much personal resources and this means costs. Putting a ban on these words saves them a hell of money, but does nothing to fight against crime and illegal activities.

Just wait until everyone uses lads in website names, what will be the next word you are venturing on? It's the content that counts, not the words!

There are other variances of the word boy that is much more inclusive of males in general and doesn't imply underage:

Just one of the boys, boys night out, birthday boy, hangin' with the boys, good 'ole boy politics, bad boys (the movie), game boy, playboy, soldier boy, support our boys in uniform, boys in blue (police), best boy (film production), Boys In the Band, boys will be boys, Boy's Town (Chicago), boytoy, Fatboy Slim, dough boy, bugle boy, boyfriend, rich boys, po'boy sandwich, busboy, billionaire boy's club, lover boy, homeboy, posterboy, Beach Boys, la-Z-boy furniture, cowboy, Los Lonely Boys, hell even Boy George ;)

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Originally Posted by JustBryce

There are other variances of the word boy that is much more inclusive of males in general and doesn't imply underage:

Just one of the boys, boys night out, birthday boy, hangin' with the boys, good 'ole boy politics, bad boys (the movie), game boy, playboy, soldier boy, support our boys in uniform, boys in blue (police), best boy (film production), Boys In the Band, boys will be boys, Boy's Town (Chicago), boytoy, Fatboy Slim, dough boy, bugle boy, boyfriend, rich boys, po'boy sandwich, busboy, billionaire boy's club, lover boy, homeboy, posterboy, Beach Boys, la-Z-boy furniture, cowboy, Los Lonely Boys, hell even Boy George ;)

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Good point Bryce!!

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Originally Posted by JustBryce

There are other variances of the word boy that is much more inclusive of males in general and doesn't imply underage:

Just one of the boys, boys night out, birthday boy, hangin' with the boys, good 'ole boy politics, bad boys (the movie), game boy, playboy, soldier boy, support our boys in uniform, boys in blue (police), best boy (film production), Boys In the Band, boys will be boys, Boy's Town (Chicago), boytoy, Fatboy Slim, dough boy, bugle boy, boyfriend, rich boys, po'boy sandwich, busboy, billionaire boy's club, lover boy, homeboy, posterboy, Beach Boys, la-Z-boy furniture, cowboy, Los Lonely Boys, hell even Boy George ;)

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Yet a good 99% of those uses have nothing to do with porn that could potential imply underage.

Regards,

Lee

Well, so much for my idea of creating a porn site featuring Boy George look-alikes...

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Originally Posted by LavenderLounge

Well, so much for my idea of creating a porn site featuring Boy George look-alikes...

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ewwwwwwwwww ;)

I think it would be a stretch for anyone to think that our primary brand is implying that we're all underage here though. I think "potentially imply" is pretty broad and there is a whole lot of context that should and is by most taken into account.

That being said, if I had to do over, i would probably of used a more inclusive name. But, the reason isn't because I think our name is dirty, but sometimes there are more senior gentlemen who don't think of themselves as boys any longer. It can sometimes be a bit harder to reach out to the polar bear community with our name :)

. . . but we are deep in this brand and its a minor problem I hear about once or twice a year at most.

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Originally Posted by Lee

Yet a good 99% of those uses have nothing to do with porn that could potential imply underage.

Regards,

Lee

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Where did "twinks" originate? "Twinkletoes"?

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Originally Posted by Lee

Yet a good 99% of those uses have nothing to do with porn that could potential imply underage.

Regards,

Lee

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Wouldn't that depend on the context/content of the website in which it appears?

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Originally Posted by Verotel

Wouldn't that depend on the context/content of the website in which it appears?

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Yes you are right, PoBoySandwichporn.com is about to launch soon.

Regards,

Lee

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Originally Posted by wnc

I understand the use of words lad and twink instead of boy in a domain name.

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Lad on a porn site is about ten times as worse as boy. I know it's a common word in the UK and has a somewhat broad meaning, but here in the US the word is very rarely used. When it is, it pretty much means little boy.

I only have one domain with boy in it, and it's not even active. I love the domain, but I have always used the word boy with a qualifier. I suppose when I do use the domain I'll put the qualifier early in the title tag, and another qualifier below the logo.

Google doesn't care about qualifiers, unfortunately. Just look at the list of words that they frown upon. Barely legal teens is considered a no-no when it comes to google adwords. Barely legal is legal. It's the same as saying over 18. They're getting a bit pedantic if you ask me. I spent days editing out thousands of teen references on a site to make it compliant for google ads. Worked great, we got a campaign going. Then we tried to add some more ads, and they re-reviewed the site and wanted terms like twinks removed. So we just said fuck it. Not going to butcher our website to comply with some ridiculous rules.

Meanwhile, take a look at some of the big sites that are advertising on google and the terms they use. Once you're spending some decent coin, the rules don't seem to apply.

Look, that's exactly what I meant. You change the word teen for twink, next you change twink to lad, than you have to move away from lad to young men, maybe, than they complain about young.

It's never going to end if you don't flip them the bird and do your own thing. These companies are just too powerful because everyone is greedy about making money from their 'services'. They are so powerful in many cases that they don't have to care about laws and let you jump for fish like sea lions in a zoo show.

If I have pictures of teen boys (over 18) on my website I'm going to say so, at least as long as it is legal. And no, I'm not implying anything. It's the sick minds of people who get those strange thoughts!

I too am stuck. CollegeBOYSlive.com has been around 10 years now, like chip, when we started it meant and stil does young male. in fact if you look at the source code of any of our page you will see a metatag disclaimer to this effect..

!-- Collegeboyslive is an adult site. for the purpose of this site the word boys in the name is NOT meant to imply anyone UNDER 18 years of age.--

!-- A boy is a young male human. By extension it commonly applies to adult men, either considered in some way immature, in a position associated with aspects of boyhood or even without such boyish connotation as age-indiscriminate synonym. --

Bryce that list is very keyword rich and perhaps this thread will get lots of you-know-who traffic.

I read in the news some weeks ago that people seeking child pornography are more and more starting to use phrases that are not used commonly to search for and locate cp. Also the report said that cp distribution is moving more and more into isolated intranet groups away from the open Internet and back to CD/DVD mailing list kind of distribution, prompting customs officials to start screening data shipped to/from countries on portable media with more scrutiny.

As a side note, one of my AEN sites was dumped by a AEN the other day because of the instance boys; boysofchina.com... but that site was legacy site anyway and has never made much money :)

We are what we are Gayboys4fun. When your on your knees getting some, do you really want to be addressed as: "Hey gay man get a load of this"? (with all due respect to the aged, me included) I think not. I'll remain that young urchin as long as I can. This is political correctness gone mad. By the time they're finished nobody will dare utter any word. I heard on the radio this morning that they are now saying we should not use the word 'gay' in our schools as it is derogatory, debasing a persons character. What! We are never going to be respectable. Are you? By the way what exactly are you? Boy, babe, man, oldie, wrinkly, umm, err.., dead?

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Originally Posted by Gayboys4fun

We are what we are Gayboys4fun. When your on your knees getting some, do you really want to be addressed as: "Hey gay man get a load of this"? (with all due respect to the aged, me included) I think not. I'll remain that young urchin as long as I can. This is political correctness gone mad. By the time they're finished nobody will dare utter any word. I heard on the radio this morning that they are now saying we should not use the word 'gay' in our schools as it is derogatory, debasing a persons character. What! We are never going to be respectable. Are you? By the way what exactly are you? Boy, babe, man, oldie, wrinkly, umm, err.., dead?

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I wish there would be more of your kind... :thumbsup: