Crystal Renn by Steven Klein and Carine Roitfeld | Paris Vogue May 2010 | Censored for Google Images

French Vogue Editor Carine Roitfeld continues to make my life damn difficult.

With Anne of Carversville desperately trying to get back our unfiltered earch rating from Google Images, Roitfeld and photographer Steven Klein dish up Crystal Renn for Vogue Paris May 2010, not only looking fab and sharing her anorexic model story en francais.

The sexually schemeing duo has published Crystal Renn with her generous amount of public hair displayed from and center with her open red trench coat.

What’s a respectable, socially-conscious, lingerie and sensuality business consultant to do?

Let me not dwell on the problem. I’m censoring the photo, while I beg, plead and pray that Google Images puts us back in at least a moderate search

Don’t ask me how an entire website plunges into the depths of the very sexy Google Images nevertheland — that’s the cooking, baking, dolphins, flowers, sunrises, Shakira’s foundation, flogging women — worth 2000 uniques a day to us and climbing 20-30% a month.

I invested my heart and soul in building a visually stunning, content-rich website that people love. Unfortunately, the entire strategy up in the air now, until Google Images decides if Anne of Carversville can get back in the game.

Today Carine Roitfeld dishes up a new challenge that I don’t frankly need. These fashion people got me in this nakedness nudityness mess in the first place, with their increasingly frank exploration of society’s relationship with the female body.

Reporting on Louis Vuitton’s Elle Turkey brings down this website, leaving me frankly depressed and comparatively silent.

I want to be the total trailblazer on this subject, as are other fashion websites that accept the Google Images tightest rating. But they’re not trying to link the dots among fashion, flogging, religion and the totality of women’s lives.

There is no choice in the matter. Just as women breast-feeding was a big no-no on Facebook, Crystal Renn’s public hair (I don’t even know if I can say these words without getting in more trouble) will appear elsewhere.

So here’s Crystal Renn censored for Google Images. You can see the actual fashion editorial here, on our new Sensuality News Tumblr blog, which is where I’ve moved all the juicy bits.

Will this mere link kill AOC once and for all with Google Images?  I don’t know. You can’t speak with them, and there are no actual directives laying out what to do in a situation like this. Dealing with Google is very Kafkaesque, and I say that with all respect for the search engine I can’t live without.

I’ve made all the changes that should make Google Images happy? Will Anne of Carversville pass muster again. I will only know if one day the traffic spigot is turned on.

AOC has an email that says: “yes, we will look at the website again. It will take a few weeks and we don’t answer this email.”

Beyond that, there’s nothing to do but write to Google CEO Eric Schmidt begging for another chance. We were one day away from launching a fundraising campaign for women’s microloans. Today we’re basically banned in the Middle East.

Please Eric Schimidt. I promise, promise, promise never to put a saucy photo on Anne of Carversville again.

Truly I understand what you’re up against, trying to make everybody happy in a world comprised of differing values and photos that offend. It’s just that my transgression was so small, and to have an entire website condemned seemed like a very heavy penalty. Anne

Photos via Fashionising.com

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[Dave Head]

What's Eric Schmidt's problem? PE ?