Petition to have Tumblr actually do something about porn blog bots following users.

ohhaishelby:

deadpoopy:

mapmatthew:

• It’s annoying.
• It gives an imperfect metric for how many followers you have. (I would estimate about 25% of my “followers” are porn blogs run by bots).
• It makes pulling up your activity page iffy even if you use Tumblr strictly for SFW content.
• It’s problematic for individuals who have struggled with sex and/or pornography addictions, especially since many of the blog names are not obviously porn names, causing you to preview the blog.
• It exposes minors to illegal and harmful content.

And to many of us:
• It’s disgusting.
• it’s degrading to human beings, especially women.
• It makes Tumblr a less classy, less reputable place.

Please share this if you agree this is a serious problem.

Well. I agree it’s degrading to see an actual human being as a sex object and have these ridiculous standards for them but Some sex workers do enjoy their work. They definitely have a right to exist as human beings, and the phrasing in this post…idk maybe it wasn’t meant by op, but degrading to women kinda implies that it’s degrading for women to see other women do this, or people seeing sex workers do their work, etc Basically let’s destroy the fetishization and objectification of people but let’s not bring down sex workers because they’re people too

yeah that was something that I briefly caught sight of when i reblogged but didn’t fully process. Thank you for pointing that out and agreed - it can be construed as putting down sex workers which I’m hoping wasn’t the OP’s intention because they’re not the problem. 

No, I don’t mean to target sex-workers. It’s true that I personally believe most porn actresses (esp in the actual mainstream porn industries) are mistreated, abused, force-addicted to drugs, and worse, I’m absolutely not trying to place the blame on their shoulders. I also understand there are people out there who believe there is nothing wrong with being a sex-worker and enjoying it, etc. My personal, religious belief is that it will harm the person doing it in the long-run, but that’s just my opinion and I don’t mean it to be confrontational. It’s okay for us to have different viewpoints and still stand together against the entire Tumblr community being force-fed porn gifs.

And I also want to be clear why I say “women,” particularly. It’s not because it’s any worse or better for them to be sexualized than a man, but simply the sheer statistics of it. Most porn focusses on women as the center “attraction,” so it is a problem that affects more women than men. That’s all I mean. I just made a longer post about this on my blog where I’ve also posted a video from the perspective of a male pornstar who now speaks openly about the horrors he went through as an actor.

As an aside, I’m also wary of the connection between pornography and sex-trafficking, both in terms of actual humans taken for porn work and as a means to increase sex-trafficking demands, but I think that issue is much bigger than simply the people who work in the industry. 

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I hope I cleared things up.

(via aliengod)