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Today, Explained

Tumblr's war on sex

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Tumblr is removing adult content from its platform today. Vox’s Aja Romano says it's about much more than banning “female-presenting nipples". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's this truism online that if you can think of it, there's porn of it.

0:11.6

And maybe nowhere is this more true than on Tumblr.

0:16.1

You're into Elmo?

0:17.3

BOSS!

0:18.3

You're now?

0:19.3

BOSS!

0:20.3

How about Elmo porn?

0:22.0

Into that movie Inception?

0:25.9

How about some dreamy Inception porn?

0:29.5

You into Star Trek?

0:31.5

Space, the final frontier.

0:34.5

Like OG Star Trek Spock and Uhura?

0:38.5

Tumblr's got you covered.

0:40.5

These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.

0:44.5

It's five-year mission to explore strange new worlds,

0:48.5

to seek out new life and new civilizations,

0:52.5

to boldly go where no man has gone before.

0:57.5

You might have a Tumblr that's like porn stars who look like Spock and Uhura.

1:01.5

And the entire Tumblr might not necessarily be explicit,

1:05.5

but it might be a rauticized Spock might be shirtless,

1:08.5

and some gifts or images, uhura might be shirtless, you know?

1:11.5

In some gifts or images, they may be having sex,

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