Most Americans would not approve of graphic sex advice being prominently featured on the homepage of a popular search engine. They would be more outraged if it were posted midday when after-school boys and girls could easily access it. But this is exactly what Yahoo did on January 30.
[Yahoo is mostly owned by Apollo Global Management, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.]
The first post below the headline story on Yahoo read, "My Boyfriend Has a New Request for When I Go Down on Him. I Have Concerns." Below, in smaller print, it said, "I want to at least try."
Clicking on this post takes the reader to an advice column that originated on Slate. It is the kind of sex advice that one would expect from a hard-core sex website or magazine, not from a conventional search engine's homepage. That it was posted at 3:13 p.m. makes it totally irresponsible.
Because of the graphic nature of the advice column, we will not make it widely available. Suffice it to say that it is an explicit description of fellatio, with some novel, and quite sick, suggestions.
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Contact: Joanna Rose, Global Head of Corporate Communications, Apollo Global Management, Inc.:
