I don't agree. Europe had a culture where the current handling of sexuality in the internet would be considered prude. There were people running around naked in the cities parks, munich was sort of famous for a these naked people in their park in the middle of the city center (englischer Garten). It's the biggest, most central park and munich and people go there with their work-colleagues for a beer after a long day.
There was a strong nudity culture in germany/europe and nudity wasn't something that was entirely sexual. But now it seems to be entirely sexual, at least on the internet.
> When I Google something in a meeting or in front of my mother, I do not want sexual results to appear because some term has an alternate meaning
I don't agee. Not every mention of sexuality is arousing and when something sexual appears and is embarassing for you, that's a cultural thing. I don't see sexual things appearing when you google stuff front of your mother as embarassing in by human nature, I think it's entirely cultural. I honestly don't know whether I would care? My mother is an adult human being after all and smart enought to know that there's an alternate meaning and I didn't want to google sexual stuff with her! I really don't think this would be a problem at all?
> but we certainly don't want to watch a steamy sex scene together
This was weird when I was a teenager, where steamy sex scenes can overwhelme you very quick. But sex scenes are an important part of many movies, it's part of human nature after all.
For example, I like art and my father likes art. When I am in my parents city and we go into a museum together, there are many artworks displaying nudity and some are explicitly concerened with the various forms of sexuality. There's no akwardness there, because we're both adults.
> So having major internet services like Google and Facebook default to being non-sexual seems like a pretty smart move to me.
It may be a smart move from a corporate point of view, but I really think it shapes our culture and defines what is a taboo and what not, they are just too powerfull. I don't think it's good that you can't post pictures of nudity on facebook. Nudity doesn't have to sexual. And if you argue that you shouldn't do that because some eployer could google you and sees you half naked, then that's also cultural, I think. Also, there's a privacy setting in facebook.