Notices by ErosBlog Bacchus (erosblog@kinkyelephant.com), page 4

Toot-quoting my ErosBlog post:

"The squeeze on commercial erotic expression continues. Until we find a way to break the moralistic chokehold of the credit card companies, it’s not going to get better. The pornocalypse comes for us all."

I'm not a Gumroad user, so I got the news here on Mastodon, thanks to Alkaris:

https://meow.social/@Alkaris/112101177617380863

Today the pornocalypse came for Gumroad, which has been a platform where a lot of erotica and fetish artists could sell their stuff. As of today, all "sexually explicit" material is unwelcome there. A few hasty details, and a side-by-side graphic showing the adult content policy changes in the last 48 hours, are to be found in my ErosBlog post where I document this sort of thing:

http://www.erosblog.com/2024/03/15/the-pornocalypse-comes-for-gumroad/

#Pornocalypse #Gumroad #SexuallyExplicit #AdultContent #EroticArt #Porn #Censorship

Last night I was sitting around playing Cards Against Humanity with some disabled elders of the Muskogee Creek Nation. You know, as one does.

They started swapping stories about being refused financial services (money orders, bill paying, check cashing) at bank branches and big box stores because (they were told) facial recognition flagged them as known scammers.

I told them software like that is notorious for being racist, in an "all brown people look alike" kind of way. They had not known.

It turns out that a surprising number of unfamiliar phrases are literally unreadable to someone who lacks cultural context. One older gentleman saw "tentacle porn", read it aloud as "testicle porn", then grimaced, looked again more closely, and carefully SOUNDED IT OUT, again incorrectly, as "Testicle porn." He knew something was wrong with his reading but that wasn't enough to let him see the actual words.

This man has a master's degree and his vision is good enough to do finely detailed metalwork with a laser cutter. It wasn't a vision or a literacy problem. His brain simply would not accept as proper input a phrase that didn't match anything in its conceptual database ... or so it seemed from across the table.

What kind of stuff was I posting on #ErosBlog twenty years ago? On a whim, I went back and paged through the February 2004 posts. They're pretty fluffy, for the most part, but I found half a dozen posts still worth mentioning. I think I'll do a little thread.

February 3, 2004 on ErosBlog: three vintage nudes, very lightly draped in those old-fashioned triangular sports pennants. http://www.erosblog.com/2004/02/03/go-navy/

#GoNavy #Sports #Pennants #Nude #Pinup #VintageNude #Vintage #Cheesecake #49ers #LosAngelesRams #Football #Naked #SportsFans

February 8, 2004 on ErosBlog:

It's a flexible and bendy girl who fits in your suitcase! Amazingly, the link credit still works, too.

http://www.erosblog.com/2004/02/08/the-girl-in-my-suitcase/

#Flexible #Bendy #BendyGirl #BendyWoman #Porn #Softcore #Contortionist

February 18, 2004 on ErosBlog:

Violet Blue (@violetblue) had a #blowjob #howto book out and was getting bad reviews (WTF?) from pissed-off religionists on Amazon. Her epic #rant was memorable and worth excerpting:

"Why the hell are Christians reading my fellatio book, and even stranger, what unholy ghost possesses them to write bad reviews about it on Amazon?"

http://www.erosblog.com/2004/02/18/christian-fellatio-a-rant/

#fellatio #Christian #evangelicals #SexNegative #VioletBlue #SexWriter

@maggiejk @AnthonyJK I'm not asking for champagne, or even for a mocha, but would a glass of yesterday's weak lukewarm unsweet iced tea be entirely out of the question?

@AnthonyJK "Drink more spit!1! The solution to pollution is dilution! We sell everything at a loss and make it up on volume! Now get out there and vote for team spit!"

@AnthonyJK Every time I ask "Why are the people who say they are my people offering me nothing but stale spit to drink?" the only answer that comes back to me is "Drink the spit, you fool, or you'll get battery acid!"

@polotek "It is the primary way to start *new* conversation that is an offshoot of an existing conversation rather than a direct response. I'm finding it hard to do that on here."

So much this. I feel it in my bones. Conversation X is fascinating, I want to "Yes, and that makes me think..." in a way that could be derailing or creepy as a reply, so I just don't say anything and the conversation I want to have just... never happens.

@LALegault I feel like this toot needs the graphic.

The Substack Nazi meltdown is making all kinds of smart people say things that fit very well with my first rule, and it's making me smile every day.

http://www.erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchus-first-rule-of-the-internet/

Many things have happened so far in the 2020s that I didn't expect, and the decade remains young. But among the most unexpected for me: watching social media and web publishing platforms sort themselves out onto different sides of a "nazis welcome"/"nazis unwelcome" dividing line, like cable TV channels.

Saw someone on here lamenting that their insurance options for a home in Florida doubled and tripled in price over the last five years. It would be cruel to inflict the dunks on them by saying "that's because houses in Florida don't have much of a future" but in truth...

We live in a time of climate calamity. None of us (to a couple decimal points) can afford insurance against climate risk. It's not ever going to get better, only worse. #ClimateChange #Climate #ClimateRisk #ClimateApocalypse

@tersenurse I have even dealt with porn production COMPANIES who insist that their product is not porn.

http://www.erosblog.com/2009/06/17/hanging-separately-in-australia/

Any time you hear that a certain thing is not pornography, it is art, know that the speaker has lost the plot.

Anything can be #porn. A watercolor painting of an elbow. It doesn't matter. ANYTHING.

The important thing is that there's nothing wrong with porn. People who are trying to finely parse the definition instead of defending porn with their whole chest are still lost in the idea of trying to bargain with prudish #pornocalypse social media rules and algorithms.