It’s the 29th of February and my poor blog has been neglected for the last 2 months. In that time there’s been a few news items about women and porn so I’m just going to make a little list for future reference.
Why Tumblr porn is great for women. Huffington Post has a long piece by Emma Gray about how Tumblr is the go-to place for women for young women.
Although it’s hard to determine exact numbers, a 2013 report showed that of Tumblr’s 200,000 most-visited blogs, 11.4 percent of them (around 22,775) host adult content. That same analysis found that 16.6 percent of Tumblr’s traffic comes from those X-rated blogs. Keep in mind: of Tumblr’s users, just over half are women, disproportionately young women between 18 and 29. Given these numbers, it’s not surprising that anecdotal evidence points to a growing number of women in their late teens, 20s and 30s who are using Tumblr to find images that will get them off. When The Huffington Post posted a call-out asking for women who would be willing to speak about looking at porn on Tumblr, we received dozens of emails within hours.
How Tumblr porn is changing the way millennial women get off. Another piece on the rise of Tumblr porn.
There’s video (and even audio) on Tumblr, but the GIFs are where it’s at. Why skip around the whole clip when you can just enjoy the best parts? For the lazy masturbator, the work is done for you. A five-second loop of someone receiving oral can be a lot sexier than watching an entire five-minute video.
Plus, you don’t have to waste precious time on ball closeups that aren’t your thing. Oh, and there are no ads featuring women made up of 80 percent plastic boob who are DTF and “in your area.” No, thank you.
I want to add a personal comment here. It’s an ongoing regret of mine that I didn’t embrace Tumblr at the beginning. I feel like I’m missing out on an audience because I don’t have big sites there. It’s what MsNaughty.com should have probably evolved into.
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I still don’t really use the platform because I just don’t have the time – I’m too busy creating my own porn, not reblogging it. But really, I have to confess I feel snarky about Tumblr. I feel like a grumpy old woman whenever I’m confronted with it.
My concerns are twofold: first, you are trusting your content to a third party that can delete it an any moment for any reason. Bacchus calls this the “Pornocalypse“. It’s what inevitably happens when a social media site gets wind of investment and promptly turns on the porn filters. Tumblr has already done it once but reversed the decision after an outcry. I don’t doubt it will happen again.
Secondly, Tumblr relies on posting and reposting unlicensed adult content. It’s sharing site that relies on copying other people’s work and many don’t give credit for it. I’m so old school (in 2000 I paid $200 for a CD with 100 photos on it) part of me still hates the idea of just creating a site using other people’s stuff you haven’t paid for. And Tumblr officially doesn’t allow advertising or affiliate links. So piracy is pretty much what it’s about.
Of course, this way of looking at things doesn’t really work in 2016. The entire internet is now social media and sharing. It’s what everyone does. It’s how the world is now and we can’t go back.
Yes, that’s a big negative rant. Just had to get it off my chest. And yes, I should post more on the Bright Desire Tumblr.
OK, a few more links.
Why women watch “fauxcest” porn. Lynsey G looks at the appeal of those “stepmother” type movies.
“Women like to see a reason [for sex]. We need to insert ourselves into it.” Dillon says that fauxcest is the seventh most popular category on GameLink, where roughly 35% of site users are female. “‘Women like the story,” he says. “[In fauxcest] you have to have some background to show who these people are and how they’re, well, related to each other.”
Generation XXX: Is there such a thing as feminist porn? Yes, they’re still writing that headline. The piece includes interviews with Erika Lust, Vex from Four Chambers and Lora Hristova It reveals that XConfessions turned over 2 million Euro last year.
‘Feminist = woman gets plenty of oral’, I scribble in my notebook as the scene gets underway. “Actually, most ‘feminist’ porn follows a certain set of rules,” says artist Lora Hristova, who recently explored the issue in her documentary Interviews With Feminist Porn Filmmakers. “Female enjoyment is put at the forefront, and of course, consent is explicitly shown, even if it’s in outtakes of the actors laughing.”
Am I Normal: What I’ve learned from making porn for women. Angie Rowntree from Sssh.com has a largely self-promotional piece about her experiences making porn.
Ultimately I realized the issue wasn’t really the nature of the porn to which I was being exposed; the issue was the definition of “normal” I’d been carrying around in my brain.
Porn that’s good for women. Erika Lust continues her PR mainstream media blitz. Also Erika Lust on what’s happening to porn in 2016
The general consensus that seems to be emerging, Erika says, is a desire for choice and variety, but, also exploration and fantasy. Fantasy is an important part of human nature, it starts when you’re a child and you fill in the gaps between your knowledge and experiences, and when you’re an adult it becomes an important way of coping with day to day life – we all day dream, think about our hopes and imagine our futures, it’s escapism. However, it’s not only escapism but also, a way of thrashing out problems and exploring ideas that we come up against in our lives.