Craig’s Morality – Puppies and Porn

Back in January of 2009, Craigslist announced that they were withdrawing erotic ads after a 22-year-old Boston medical student allegedly murdered a woman who advertised erotic services on the web site. A week earlier, a New York City radio reporter was found murdered after placing an ad on Craigslist for rough sex.

The murders led South Carolina’s attorney general to threaten Craigslist with a criminal investigation if it didn’t pull the ads. The prosecutor accused Craigslist of facilitating prostitution. Connecticut’s attorney general called Craigslist “a blatant Internet brothel.”

Although certainly X-rated, and originally published in the Craigslist Personals, the link below is not exactly an example of the type of ad under consideration, but a post currently on the site’s Best of Craigslist page.  As the official Boggy Thicket censor, I couldn’t find an actual posting that both proved my point and was something I was willing to include on my blog. I decided that this was close enough – too dirty to cut and paste, and too funny  to ignore altogether.

But, I digress; my point was that today posters in the Craigslist Personals section can and do still show pictures of their genitals, and they can and do include painfully graphic descriptions of what they would like to do with and/or to you, or have done to themselves.

But, users can no longer advertize puppies for sale for fear they might come from a puppy mill.