TechCrunch calculated that more than 10 percent of the service's most popular 200,000 sub-domains feature Yahoo-unfriendly adult material. This article is part of Summer of Sex, our 12-week long exploration of how women are having sex in 2017.Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr has some devotees worried that what they love most about the micro-blogging platform - the GIF porn, obvs - will disappear. And in a world that demonizes female sexuality, it’s hard to say which is better. By consuming them on Tumblr, women are finding not just a place that helps them get off but one where they're not alone. The appeal of porn GIFs stretches beyond how hot they can be in their own right. “With the confessional nature of Tumblr, you get to know the person, you get an intimate sense of what turns them on-you might even know more about that than your own friends,” says Torres. The most striking similarity between the #sexpo and #fitspo tags has to do with their dedicated communities. Though porn GIFs on Tumblr are less prescriptive, there’s something inspiring about how Holly uses them to accompany practical female masturbation tips. “It’s like when you read about someone who went from not fit at all to running a marathon and you’re like, ‘I could totally do that! I could totally do that!'" said Torres. For example, I'm not personally into consensual choking, so GIFs give me a way of enjoying the parts of a rougher sex scene that turn me on without having to wonder if parts that may make me uncomfortable are on the way.”įor a piece on porn GIFs, Torres spoke to Holly, the “twentysomething, not-entirely-straight girl who loves to gossip about sex stuff” behind Orgasmic Tips for Girls, a popular Tumblr for “horny girls everywhere.” She tells me that, in reporting the piece, she was most struck by Holly’s idea that porn GIFs on Tumblr can function as a kind of #sexpo-a sex version of #fitspo, the online community of fitness content creators who share workout plans and dieting tips through aspirational stories (and, for better or worse, a ton of rules). “You don't have to spend what's supposed to be a good time dreading something ‘bad’ happening later on. “You can know, quickly and easily, what you're getting with GIFs,” says Leigh, a 34-year-old singer from New York. “I can focus on one gesture or look from the performers that feels authentic.” As a bisexual trans woman, Lucy says heterosexual porn works when she can project herself onto the experience of the woman, something that’s easier with GIFs: “ distill that into one repeated action or moment that's much easier to get into than a whole video.” “I like that cut a lot of the fakeness out of porn, which usually takes me out of the experience,” says Lucy, 28, an office coordinator in the Southwest. In reality, many do-we just might not be as into the content being offered by the mainstream industry. If anything, it proves just the opposite, smashing the theory that women don’t enjoy porn. In that way, the porn GIF community on Tumblr isn’t unlike the world of erotic fiction, which also works against the myth that women are less horny, dirty, and sexually imaginative than men. Caroline poked around to find more clips like it-all soundless, looped, and sensually erotic-clicking on different tags based on her mood, each one revealing more and more sexual GIFs, like hot digital nesting dolls. Then one day as Caroline was scrolling through her Tumblr timeline, she saw a porn GIF, one she describes as “soft-core” and “artsy.” She liked how the repetitive format managed to harness the moment that turns you on, and was then simplified and suspended in time: A woman’s O-face perpetually crinkled in pleasure, the semen in a cum-shot forever arching out into space. Frustrating, since women take more time to orgasm and a visual or audible interruption-no matter how seemingly minor-can cause us to have to start from scratch. Even if she found a mainstream video she liked at first, something would usually end up going wrong, like fake-sounding breathing, cheesy music, or a “ Miami Vice narrative” that felt awkward and moment-killing. The 26-year-old didn’t grow up seeking it out and until five years ago hadn’t seen any without the nudge of a male partner. Caroline* started watching porn by accident.
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