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Sexuality occupies a crucial part of our online behaviour, however often we might erase our browser histories. In spite of this, it’s<\/span>\u00a0becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of sex in the cyber sphere. On the one hand, explicit images of sex seem to be everywhere; on the other, most of us have encountered online censorship: nipples covered by emojis and mysterious \u201ccommunity guidelines\u201d that even object to innocuous 18th-century art nudes. What is the balance between freedom and control in the production and consumption of sexual content?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today \u2014 and quite literally today as December 17 marks the day that Tumblr officially bans all pornography (defined as depiction of human genitalia, \u201cfemale-presenting\u201d nipples and sex acts, including illustrations) from its platform \u2014 this question becomes more and more political. Since the announcement less than two weeks ago, the move has been publicised widely, provoking a particularly vocal reaction from artists working with nudity and explicit imagery, pornographers, porn performers and sex workers (by some unbelievable coincidence or intention, December 17 is also the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers).<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent times, porn has gained more visibility in mainstream culture: the renaissance of independent female porn directors<\/span> was covered by The New York Times<\/span><\/a>, this years’ PornHub award cermony was curated by Kanye West,<\/span> Stoya\u2019s website ZeroSpaces<\/span><\/a> is changing the conversation around the adult industry, and no one can argue with the impact that Stormy Daniels has had on US politics this past year. At the same time, it\u2019s evident that sexual content is demonised more frequently, and pushed to the margins. Both the SESTA\/FOSTA bill in the US and Digital Economy Act in the UK are set to restrict what kind of sex can be presented online \u2014 which both limits creative expression and silences an open dialogue about sex. Tumblr is just the tip of the iceberg \u2014 a microcosm within the macrocosm.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":72964,"id":72964,"title":"Foto: Nat\u00e1lia Zaja\u010dikov\u00e1","filename":"bike_one_-2.jpg","filesize":352499,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/tumblr-adult-content-ban\/foto-natalia-zajacikova\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Still from The Bike Club by Poppy Sanchez. Photo: Nat\u00e1lia Zaja\u010dikov\u00e1 ","name":"foto-natalia-zajacikova","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72940,"date":"2018-12-17 14:59:49","modified":"2018-12-17 17:00:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2000,"height":1125,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","medium-width":2000,"medium-height":1125,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","medium_large-width":2000,"medium_large-height":1125,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","large-width":2000,"large-height":1125,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":1125,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bike_one_-2.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":2000,"wpvr_mobile-height":1125}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

\u201cI started using Tumblr in 2009 when I was seventeen and quickly discovered that there were a lot of images relating to sex circulating, and of different kinds of sexual expression. Not only did these images help me discover my sexuality, but they also inspired me to start making my own sexually explicit work,\u201d says porn director<\/span> Poppy Sanchez<\/span><\/a>, who belongs to the new wave of creatives reinventing porn. Her films are a great example of the movement: explicit, arousing, hot depictions of sex \u2014 but with a strong artistic sensibility and focused on female pleasure and diverse representation of different sexual experiences and identities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sex-positive, alternative porn community is growing rapidly, but mainstream social media is not an easy environment for them to exist within. \u201cI have encountered censorship from numerous social media sites flagging my work or taking my entire profile down without warning. It’s frustrating not because of all the lost followers and likes, but because by doing this they are distorting sexuality in ways that will affect how we preserve it,\u201d Poppy adds.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":72957,"id":72957,"title":"Screen Shot 2018-12-12 at 11.40.23 PM","filename":"Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","filesize":670486,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/tumblr-adult-content-ban\/screen-shot-2018-12-12-at-11-40-23-pm\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"From \"La Pute Arabe\" by Drew Lint ","name":"screen-shot-2018-12-12-at-11-40-23-pm","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72940,"date":"2018-12-17 14:29:02","modified":"2018-12-17 15:08:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1069,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":71,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1069,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1069,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1069,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":855,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1069,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-11.40.23-PM.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1069}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

The act of erasure that accompanies deleted posts and suspended accounts is particularly damaging for the LGBTQ+ community, whose sexuality has been historically marginalised. \u201cI absolutely believe that censorship has a greater effect on queer and POC communities in comparison to those existing in white heteronormative spaces,\u201d says photographer and cinematographer<\/span> Lanee Bird<\/span><\/a>, who works primarily with fetish and BDSM imagery and is a frequent collaborator of independent porn company<\/span> Aorta Films<\/span><\/a>, which showcases the radical diversity of queer sexual expression. \u201cI\u2019ve noticed that many of my friends working in the queer pornography industry are faced with content flagging, deletion and shadow banning, while other accounts that may only serve to showcase cis white bodies continue to stay up online without backlash. The reasoning for this is a much larger social issue of homophobia and bigotry towards queerness and queer pleasure.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s more common for LGBTQ+ films to have sex and nudity in them, because these narratives are more often about sexuality or are sexual in nature,\u201d says<\/span> Drew Lint<\/span><\/a>, director of M\/M feature film, whose work often takes visual cues from pornography. \u00a0\u201cAlso, the posted examples of censored images I\u2019ve been seeing are ridiculous: photos of two men holding hands or a Nan Goldin photo of people in drag. Censoring images like that is just going to inhibit the exchange of ideas and stifle creativity, plus reduce the visible representation of marginalised groups.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are consistent attempts to subdue or erase pornography, possibly because it’s an ugly stepsister of what we imagine to be moral, and now because it’s too nuanced and unpredictable to market effectively,\u201d says artist and pornographer<\/span> Dylan Meade<\/span><\/a>, who is also one of the founders of GSA pornography society that seeks to integrate discussion about pornography into broader culture. \u201cAs a result, pornography becomes a no man’s land: enter at your own peril because if something bad happens to you in there, the rest of us won’t help you, we’re not watching \u2014 although someone is always watching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":72958,"id":72958,"title":"January 2018 Robert and Dylan redux.00_09_38_05.Still063","filename":"January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","filesize":1155131,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/tumblr-adult-content-ban\/january-2018-robert-and-dylan-redux-00_09_38_05-still063\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"From \"Robert and Dylan Redux\" by Dylan Meade","name":"january-2018-robert-and-dylan-redux-00_09_38_05-still063","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72940,"date":"2018-12-17 14:31:09","modified":"2018-12-17 15:10:50","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1080,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1080,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/January-2018-Robert-and-Dylan-redux.00_09_38_05.Still063.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1080}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Indeed, artistic work dealing with explicit sexual material is the bridge that could connect marginalised discourse around sex to mainstream culture \u2014 and it\u2019s vital for it to exist on social media platforms. But most directors and artists admit that the voices that must be heard are the ones of porn performers and sex workers, the ones who are most affected by censorship, social stigma and slut shaming.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the hill I will die on \u2014 sex is not wrong! Why are we able to share images of violence, hatred, why can I witness literal murder on these social platforms but not be able to share pleasure and love and the joy of sexuality?\u201d asks<\/span> Jiz Lee<\/span><\/a>, adult film performer and queer porn producer at<\/span> CrashPadSeries.com<\/span><\/a>. \u201cI don’t think there is anything shameful, or wrong about making money being sexual. When I decide to share an image, I try to limit it to platforms that accept sexual content. That said, knowing where to ‘draw the line’ is a challenge. For example, I am a nonbinary person. Are my nipples ‘female presenting’? I personally don’t think they are, but I understand how an algorithm or a worker at-a-glance would think so. Therefore, I’ve had to practice discretion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instagram has been a battlefield for a long time, with plenty of sex workers and porn performers having their accounts removed repeatedly. When it happened to performer<\/span> Bishop Black<\/span><\/a> earlier this month, it got a large part of the community to consider if the platform is even right for them at all. \u201cI am usually quite lucky in the fact that I don\u2019t get banned as much as my other sex worker friends on social media. So, it was a shock when I did, because there was no reason given. I\u2019m left to feel like I am not valid enough to be even given a reason,\u201d Bishop admits. \u201cPutting adult performers and sex workers in a niche hole to control them is another form of ghettoising a community because they do not fit into normative structures. Also, with the laws around sex work becoming tighter, we cannot make our livelihood. We cannot get work. We use more dangerous avenues. We lose our safety.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":72960,"id":72960,"title":"4","filename":"4-1.jpg","filesize":309222,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/tumblr-adult-content-ban\/4-10\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Maria Riot by Lucia Raiden","name":"4-10","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72940,"date":"2018-12-17 14:33:28","modified":"2018-12-17 15:12:12","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1282,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1282,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1282,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1282,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1026,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1282,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1282}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

One of the arguments used by Tumblr officials to justify the pornography ban is the fact that there are plenty of platforms for adult content already. One could agree \u2014 but the internet can\u2019t really be divided into different zones, it’s a shared space in which, as it turns out, some have a right to exist in and some not.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s important for adult performers and sex workers to be present in social media on mainstream platforms because we are part of society. We don\u2019t want to be marginalised and excluded just because we work with erotism and sex. It\u2019s part of the movement to normalise sexuality,\u201d says sex worker and vocal sex workers\u2019 rights activist, <\/span>Maria Riot<\/span><\/a>. \u201cWe deserve having our rights recognised. This exclusion on social media is just a reflection of how the governments and a really big group of people don\u2019t want our existence. But we are going to resist\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Expression of sexuality online is much more than a question of private pleasure. As the artist Barbara Kruger once put it, your body is a battleground \u2014 and so is your pornography. 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