Adsense and Sexy Pictures

take a look at what kind of images Google is displaying in its own banners on my website: [snip]
how can Google complain about those kind of images on our websites if they are showing exactly the same stuff in their advertising banners?

It's called hypocrisy. Or, alternatively, context. Those are ads for ladies' underwear, which are entirely appropriate in the right context.

All ad providers are like this. I've run into it in two different ways so far with non-nude adult sites: Amazon wouldn't let me have an affiliate account to sell sex toys on an adult (non-nude) site because it's too rude (which begs the question of where one CAN sell the adult toys they market... on a kids' party site, perhaps?), the other is a constant stream of advertisers who'll happily take extreme content showing people with pierced, tattooed and deliberately disfigured nether regions being penetrated by enormous phalli... but won't allow a particular word to be used in a site title.

You just have to go with it. Your best bet is probably to contact them and ask - it can't hurt, after all, and is better than crossing your fingers and getting banned. Or (since most of the ads you'll get will be sucky CPC) go with another provider who does adult as well as non-adult.

The AdSense rule of thumb seems to be "if you wouldn't show it to an evangelistic fifty-year-old mother of seven in the Bible belt who thinks she's living in the 1950s, don't put AdSense on it".

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