Imagine living in a world where kids grow up not being taught that their bodies are something to be ashamed of or that sex is something nasty that will taint you as a person. Or actually being taught how to have sex safely to not get pregnant or STDs or how consent works.
You’ll need quite some imagination for this seeing how the West seems to slide back into the moral mindset of the 19th century lately. Led by American companies who have no problem whatsoever with violence or nazi propaganda on their sites, this new Puritan movement just culminated in one of the biggest social networks banning all NSFW content.
Tumblr, the site that has become a hub for so many communities and artists with adult themes, the site that is used to view porn by a majority of its users, wants to become a “better and more positive” place. Apparently that doesn’t include body or sex positivity. Tumblr did say that they won’t remove artistic nudity in art, paintings and sculptures for example but turns out that statement was not quite true as you can see below:
Two weeks from now, all NSFW content will be removed from Tumblr. The decision comes just weeks after the Tumblr app was removed from Apple’s iTunes store because of problems with Tumblr’s content filter. Apparently Tumblr came to the conclusion that just removing all porn would be easier than fixing their software.
The NSFW bloggers are easily Tumblr’s largest community so this move will be a huge blow to the site. The stock price of Tumblr’s parent company Verizon is in free fall and many users started fleeing the site, migrating to Twitter and other networks just hours after the decision was announced.
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Human desires flow like water around the rocks of prohibition.
twitter is horrid, bring on the next new “thing”
Fortunately Pornhub and Xhamster exist and are free, but Tumblr nukes blogs with only fully clothed boys (girls too?) in them.
I already can’t access Tumblr, so no big deal. I get into a forever loop that tells me my account is compromised and I should reset my password, which sends me a reset link that tells me my account is compromised and I should reset my password, and so on.
There’s not even a button to log out, so I should probably delete all Tumblr cookies and credentials, sign on with a different email, forget about this crappy site.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4xa8v3/so-how-much-porn-is-on-tumblr
I’ve always liked this article on the demographics.
It’s over half.
I’ve found a nifty little program called TumblThree that lets you download the content of entire tumblrs. using it non stop to save the contents of my favorites
and for the record, there’s plenty of other wonderful content in there. lookup sosuperawesome as an example