Nodding profusely to this. It's easy to get sucked into moral panic but at the end of the day, gore art and airplane porn has just as much a right to exist as art of a straight couple holding hands.
Our species needs it's little quirks and oddities, it's good for us.
ID: Screenshot by Genderkoolaid on tumblr. "In order to not succumb to sex-negative conservatism, you have to accept that people will get off to things that are upsetting to you. And you cannot assume anything about what they have or have not experienced, what they do or do not believe, and how
they act based solely on what gets them off. Even if it's extremely confusing and disturbing to you. There are people who only have only ever had heterosexual vanilla sex in missionary with the lights off, who actively contribute to more real-world harm than the average fetish artist.
Absolutely. Being a furry gave me a new perspective. Also, the older I get the easier it is to just look at something and think “oh, that’s not for me” and move on. I give it basically zero thought after that. As long as everyone is a consenting adult, it doesn’t concern me.
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Being a combo of born into Islam, being engaged at the practice of fgm & having erotic fantasy scenarios of fantasy characters experiencing genital mutilation enthusiastically is fucking wild, the irony there but that doesn't change the facts + feelings I have
For me it depends on the context. I am aroace and an SA survivorand while I am part of a fandom where there's lot of NSFW what I see online I see on MY TERMS. I can mute, block, or just disengage from social medias. In real life though I really do not want to know about people's sex lives.
tried separating the lifestyle part of me from the rest of me and I found that it does not work ♥ it's easier to be oneself and to find others that jive with who and what you are rather than to pretend ♥ at least that's what i have found ♥
A good chunk of quotes provide their own personal perspectives on both sides of the discussion and honestly
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All of this is perspective, if you have interacted with an extreme artist and they get busted for doing worse or similar things IRL, of course you’d never trust other artists like that
A misunderstanding I've also seen people say is "I find this gross but they'll probably say I'm disrespectful so I'm not allowed to have that opinion". That doesn't make any sense. You're not forced to like what I masturbate to. I just want you to respect my fetishes. There is a difference.
Heck I don't even care if people respect my fetishes. I just don't want to have random assholes telling me to stop enjoying myself just because THEY don't like it
Honestly, I've been on the internet for so long that their best attempts to shame me are laughable at best and lame at worst. I guess it's one of the good sides of being here since I was a kid
Reminder to chat that there are ways that some more morally questionable kinks can be pulled off without actual violence (e.g CNC). Kink communities thrive on heavy consent and planning
Genuinely the moment I learned this I became a better person for it, lol. Made friends with good folks I wouldn’t have in the past just because I disliked their kinks, and some are among my closest. Not to mention I became a kinder, more reasonable person who wasn’t judging everyone…
More often than not, when you make an assumption about why someone does something you don't get, it says more about your paths of reasoning than theirs.
"well you see, i think you're stupid and cumbrained for liking the stuff i don't like, but if you like the stuff i *do* like then you're someone of culture and respectable" is something i was exposed to quite a bit and it was always like. it was weird
This is probably the most healthiest discussions I’ve seen on a topic like this on social media
Like you said it’s all about perspective, you don’t tell people how to behave, you choose who you want to interact with and only call them out if they are doing actual harm
That's definitely more harmful than some kink out there. People get tormented by hate-addled mobs until they can't take it anymore. These witch hunts take lives.
Yeah, for a long time, from radical feminists to even fascists, with the latter group ironically being okay with 13+ yo girls dating with much older guys as long as the girls were "mature" enough.
the only line I have is consent, and that is a line that is engraved in steel. you *do not* make someone do something that they don't want to do or don't understand what's actually going on.
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Our species needs it's little quirks and oddities, it's good for us.
My little boy, Ahmed, was born during the war and never got the chance to grow up like any other child🙏🥺
Please don’t forget Ahmed in your generous donations he is in desperate need of your help🫂
https://gofund.me/c5afdabb
You know where you stand with the kinky person, but the random is a total enigma.
(Totally distrust those that call for kink to be buried or hidden though.)
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All of this is perspective, if you have interacted with an extreme artist and they get busted for doing worse or similar things IRL, of course you’d never trust other artists like that
Shit like this needs a broader discussion from all sides, cause X only dealt with Absolutes
Like you said it’s all about perspective, you don’t tell people how to behave, you choose who you want to interact with and only call them out if they are doing actual harm
Unlike purist twitter
I saw one comment say “we aren’t being overreactive about this stuff, we just don’t want it normalized”
Bruh u guys normalized harassment and death threats over taboo and wierd nsfw art
and thats not even counting nsfw stuff.
I don't think they think
past that, it's all good!
there should *always* be an opt-out. idgaf how hot & heavy things are.
otherwise, have fun!
You aren't better than them, get off your high horse!