Tonight’s Through the Night feature was on naked celebrities. Which involved being paid to search for porn. I was surprised how difficult it turned out to be. It’s dead easy to find free porn online, of course, but not of famous people. Most of it’s locked up safely and securely behind Celebticket, which seems to be the famous person’s version of Adultcheck.

Did throw up a couple of interesting facts, though. For instance:

• There seems to be a distinction - on American sites at least - between ‘naked’ and ‘nude’. Nude, from what I can tall, errs on the side of titillation, and bare-breastyness. Naked goes much further.

• It’s also better to avoid sites that have the celebrity name in their address as these are usually just portals that channel you to the same small selection of Celebticket-controlled destinations. I’m guessing that the ratio of funnels to the number of real porn pictures is about 100:1.
• You come across more annoying popup ads when searching for naked women than you do when searching for naked guys.
• It’s best to think laterally. Don’t search for ‘Jude Law naked’ - search for Jude Law gallery and you’re more likely to get closer to what you’re after.

A couple of the sites we used on the show:

Jonathan Kerrigan gallery leading to…
…naked on bed
…in the shower

Brad Pitt gallery leading to…
…Brad Pitt naked
…Brad Pitt naked
…Brad Pitt naked

But we never got around to discussing this grubby picture of the rather lovely Morten Harket.

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