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Catherine Townsend

A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...

Google Sex Searches NSFW

Posted by Catherine Townsend
  • Wednesday, 26 November 2008 at 03:00 am
 The word 'clitoris' is on list of words banned from Google's safe search option, according to The F-Word. A search for 'clitoris' with the safe option switched on brings up zero hits, while a search for 'penis' turns up 33 million. This seems incredibly sexist: The word isn't slang, it's the proper name of a sexual organ. If 'penis' and 'scrotum' are deemed safe for work, then Google should get its act together. Why make it even harder for people to locate?

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