Skip navigation! Story from Porn For Women. After Tumblr announced that starting on December 17, it'll ban porn and adult content from its blogs, many scrambled to find suitable alternatives. The ban — made in response to child pornography being found on the site — will cover photos, GIFs, and videos that show real human genitals, "female-presenting" nipples, or sex acts written erotica will still be permitted. Despite the intention behind this ban, quite a few people on Twitter have zeroed in on the fact that, in a matter of two weeks, they'll suddenly be without their favorite source of porn and NSFW content.
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Since Tumblr took the decision to ban NSFW content on its website at the end of , there has been a gap in the world of micro-blogging sites for the niche and free content that it offered. Though some Tumblr users have yet to see access to their pages revoked over their images and clips, we wanted to know what alternatives there were to this useful multimedia sharing platform. A multimedia micro-blogging and social networking site launched in , Tumblr was always set to be a different kind of animal to that of Facebook, Twitter or LiveJournal.
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An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens. Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways. New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. And on December 17, the ban took full effect, with any flagged posts being hidden, and a special effort placed on finding new infringing content as it went up. Yet, nearly two months after the ban went into effect, Tumblr is still flooded with NSFW content—from female nipples to male and female genitalia to every conceivable sex act. Since announcing the NSFW ban, Tumblr and its parent company Verizon have faced harsh criticism for the performance of its image recognition algorithms.
On December 17, Tumblr banned adult content on their platform. The move was rumored to be a knee-jerk response to Apple removing Tumblr from its App Store over failing to adequately filter out child pornography. While that is certainly an understandable and valid reason for removing the app, instead of improving their filtering system, Tumblr decided to ban all adult content altogether. In doing so, they destroyed a massive social media community and outlet where people, especially underrepresented communities, could freely express their sexuality. I was one of those people. I was in the midst of ending a sexless and passionless marriage, and while I never took much pleasure in sex anyway, I knew others did, which gave me a resounding and incessant urge to find out what I was missing. But how would I even start? What turned me on? How would I find it and articulate it not just to myself, but to a partner? Mainstream porn sites only offered clips of brightly lit, conventionally-attractive people with hard bodies having what seemed to be a very athletic, staged, and mechanical style of sex.
