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. Luckily, Tumblr isn't the only place on the internet where you can find not-so-mainstream, ethical, and feminist porn. And you needn't limit yourself to video content, either. To do that would mean missing out on pornographic comics , online erotic fiction , steamy podcasts , and good, old-fashioned erotic novels — and that sort of FOMO sounds unbearable to us.


The social network's adult-content ban came at a great cost to the community
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It has been a slow burn toward the seeming end for Tumblr over the last few years, and this week another change of the guard has been announced. Verizon subsumed Tumblr when it acquired Yahoo in The site originally launched in under David Karp. It is hard to pinpoint what triggered such a drastic decline in value in less than a decade.
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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. That all changed in November , when Apple removed Tumblr from its App Store after finding that child pornography had slipped onto the site. The ban prohibited not just hardcore porn, but even the humble female nipple. Imagery that just barely hides private parts seems to still be allowed. Natural selection has weeded out many of them, such as the flopped Cumblr. But at least three other sites appear to be blooming. Three weeks?
The first is that it barely survived. The total volume of visits to the site is in decline, as is the number of visits per unique visitor, as is the amount of time that visitors spend on the site. From to , the average site visit dropped by nearly a minute, and the average number of pages per visit dropped by more than one and a half. Even more striking, the average monthly volume of traffic to the Tumblr login page by U. The numbers are stark, but not surprising. Until , when Yahoo still owned Tumblr but was not yet itself owned by Verizon and had not yet merged with AOL, it had an in-house research team tasked with understanding the mechanics and sociology of the various websites it owned. The lab published one of its last studies postmortem, in January , mapping the place of porn in communities on Flickr and Tumblr. The recap paints Tumblr as a vibrant tangle of memes and mini-communities. There, as everywhere else, the biggest meme of the year was Area