Adsense on Adult Sites?

The "F" word search turns up many ads.......

[WolfLover]

In reading Googles Program Policies it states:

"Site may not include:

Excessive profanity
Violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization
Hacking/cracking content
Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
Pornography, adult, or mature content"

I did a search <adult> word, just to see if there were adwords ads and there are plenty. There are many porn sites, etc. who use adwords and therefore are publishers with adsense for those same ads.

This is my question. One of my sites sells mature items and clothing of a fetish nature. There is no profanity on my site, there are no sex scenes, etc. If G does not allow sites with adult or mature content, what exactly do they mean? I do not want to get banned, as this site is a much smaller site than my non-mature audience sites, but I plan to enlarge it and I would like to use AdSense on this site.

Anyone else have a mature audience type site and using AdSense? Again, my site is NOT a porn site, it sells fetish products, but they are not "adult toys" as is most common.

Thank you for any insight, I will email G as well to ask this, but would like this forums help as you all seem to be very knowledgeable and have been extremely helpful to many.

[edited by: martinibuster at 5:02 pm (utc) on June 6, 2006]
[edit reason] Removed Specifics [/edit]

[PalX]

Why use Adsense on adult websites when you can use Adult Ads that pay 1$ a click?

[WolfLover]

I would also still like to get information as to anyone using Adsense on mature sites as well?

Thank you for your information.

[edited by: engine at 4:46 pm (utc) on June 6, 2006]

[jomaxx]

Not that I have any experience as a publisher or advertiser in that area, but $1 a click sounds farfetched.

[humblebeginnings]

There are many porn sites, etc. who use adwords and therefore are publishers with adsense for those same ads.

No, that's not correct.
An Adwords advertiser doesn't need to be an Adsense publisher. You can have an Adwords account without having an Adsense account...

[WolfLover]

Humblebeginnings, I'm sorry for any confusion, I did not mean that the AdWords advertisers are also publishers, I meant that for MOST advertisers there are also going to be adsense publishers out there with a site to put those ads on.

Thanks for your time, anyone else with any ideas or experience?

[jomaxx]

Or they could simply be advertising on Google.com and not getting any AdSense traffic whatsoever. Since adult sites are against the TOS anyways, and mainstream sites would be horrified to see such ads running on their pages, Google probably doesn't give such ads any visibility on the AdSense network.

[humblebeginnings]

I meant that for MOST advertisers there are also going to be adsense publishers out there with a site to put those ads on.

It's like Jomaxx explains. If many advertisers turn up when searching some adult search phrase on Google, it doesn't mean the ads will be displayed on the content network (= Adsense publishers).

Your example looks like a grey area.
And in case of Adsense that usually means you should be very careful with it. As always, best way to deal with this is to ask Google.
My personal view is that Google should allow this kind of content, but hey, I am just some perv from (near) Amsterdam...

[celgins]

While I do not have the type of site you have, I do run a magazine where some of my content can be considered "adult/mature". Only on a few pages though.

More specifically, there are a couple of pages where I post articles/content about relationships, intimacy, sex, etc. Those pages would never display ads, or always displayed PSA's.

I just removed AS from those pages.

[dba2003]

Posting aboyve: "Why use Adsense on adult websites when you can use Adult Ads that pay 1$ a click? "

Care to share where this $1 is happening?

[ann]

Apparently he didn't feel like sharing. :)

[PalX]

send me a StickyMail and i will, no links in public

[jomaxx]

Why can't you just say the company? Is it an affiliate link you're sending people?

[PalX]

No it is not an affiliate link

Lot of dating or Adult websites have affiliate programs, small search on google can give you an idea, search for I want you as an example in which they have a 1$ per click affiliate system