I resisted caffeine this morning but quickly found another jolt of shock while browsing videos on Motionbox.com. Unlike Youtube, Motionbox is more of a home video site with some really cool features for editing videos online and also an hd player. I did a search for summer 2008 while logged into my Motionbox account and was shocked to find sex videos listed next to videos of babies playing with toys.

I went to youtube and did the same search, summer 2008 and got back results like summer 2008 on the poker channel, and all the fashion runway shows. The closest thing to sex that I see is SMF Cybersexy which looks like a video game or cartoon of some sorts…definitely animated and not real human body parts. I’m not saying that there are no sex videos on youtube. Search for masturbating and you’ll get some results. However, at least they don’t show naked body parts as the start of the video and therefore the icon for the video.

So to all the home video makers – tag your sex videos as sex, masturbating, whatevers…but so that it’s clearly defined that it’s sex and not that you had sex in 2008 or summer and therefore it ends up in a general search. And really, how about some self restrain and keeping it private. You can still share it but just create a group for sex videos.

I’m a little bit surprised that motionbox doesn’t have better monitoring of the videos that are uploaded. To each his/her own and Motionbox can’t really stop people from updating their homemade porn videos but at the same time, imagine if someone browsing through a search and had their kid sitting next to them staring at the screen. “Mommy/Daddy, what is that? Can we watch it?” And maybe users need a how-to video on naming and tagging their content and what to make public and leave private?