Not safe for work

This article is about the Internet slang. For the 2014 film, see Not Safe for Work (film). For the 2015 television series, see Not Safe for Work (TV series).
"NSFW" redirects here. For other uses, see NSFW (disambiguation).

Not safe/suitable for work (NSFW) is Internet slang or shorthand. Typically, the NSFW tag is used in e-mail, videos, and on interactive discussion areas (such as Internet forums, blogs, or community websites) to mark URLs or hyperlinks which contain material such as nudity, pornography, or profanity, which the viewer may not want it to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace.

Determining a site to be NSFW is invariably subjective, and poses challenges for academics who study sexuality.[1] The difficulty in identifying such content objectively has led to the creation of online tools to help individuals to identify NSFW content:

NSFW has particular relevance for individuals making personal use of the Internet at workplaces or schools which have policies prohibiting (even inadvertent) access to sexually provocative content.

On November 28, 2007, Fark.com founder Drew Curtis filed an application[2] to trademark the phrase, but the application was abandoned.[3]

Conversely, the term Safe For Work, sometimes abbreviated to SFW, is used to label material that may have a questionable title or include subjects that could potentially be NSFW, but are not.

Not safe for life

In allusion to the established use of the term on the Internet, Not safe for life (NSFL) generally refers to content that might not be in the interest of a person to view no matter the location and potential coviewers for being horrifying, disgusting, offensive or even mentally disturbing to the viewer themselves. Typically it refers to depictions of real graphic violence ("gore").[4] Many content-aggregator sites such as Reddit, video-platforms such as LiveLeak and imageboards such as 4chan have their own subsites which are dedicated to or allow such content – often with the requirement that such material be marked as such which is often done via a NSFL tag.

References

  1. ↑ Attwood, Feona; I. Q. Hunter (October 2009). "Not suitable for work? Teaching and researching the sexually explicit". Sexualities 12 (5): 547–557. doi:10.1177/1363460709340366.
  2. ↑ Wortham, Jenna (December 10, 2007). "Fark 'NSFW' Trademark Bid All in Good Snark?". Wired.com. Archived from the original on 2009-11-11. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
  3. ↑ Notice of Abandonment, US serial number 77338491. USPTO, May 29, 2009.
  4. ↑ Minsky, Amy (16 October 2014). "Luka Magnotta’s gore video: Why is the court seeing it?". Retrieved 28 March 2015.
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