“Last Longer Bed..” on Squidoo

Saturday, February 14th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

I recently created a lens on Squidoo about the subject of lasting longer in bed, entitled ” Last Longer – Bed Room Stamina for Men”.

The interesting thing about this is that I first had created this as a hub on Hubpages. To my dismay, although the information in the article was very professionally written and devoid of any tasteless references or vulgarity, my hub was flagged by the Hubpages staff as having “adult content” and automatically unpublished.

I couldn’t believe it. I had found about 5 or more other hubpages on this subject, some of which frankly had lewd references right in the titles. Things like “How to Hold Your Load”…! My hub was extremely tactful and even family friendly in the choice of words I used to describe everything I was talking about.

So, angered, I wrote an email to the managing editor of Hubpages, demanding an explanation, and pointing out examples of the other Hubs I had seen. I finally got a (very short) reply days later, that simply said “your hub has descriptive language of the sex act. The other hubs you mentioned as examples ALSO violate our terms, but had gone unnoticed and are now flagged for editing…” This was the exact OPPOSITE of the reaction I was expecting, because I thought anyone with any sense could see that my hub was a well written article about preventing premature ejaculation, a health problem affecting many men, and not just some article to be filed under “adult congtent.” And on top of it, I got some fellow hubbers in trouble without meaning too!

Anyway, I simply left the hub unpublished, and took a carbon copy of it over to their biggest competitor, Squidoo and created a lens there. Squidoo does allow “adult content” but they flag it with a double-opt in splash page to make sure people know what they are about to read. Anyway, you can read the whole “last longer bed…” lens now at Squidoo. Please come back to comment on it if you like it. I especially think my choice of images is really on target.

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