The Locked Cub's Den

When did freedom of expression suddenly become an online crime? When did an attack on a specific subset of any group ever work to the benefit of any institution?

In this bloggers humble opinion, Tumblr’s December 17th forced genocide of Adult Content blogs is just another example of how our society is slipping backwards in its level of tolerance towards anything that is different, preferring to have this type of content hidden away, and marked with a scarlet letter of intolerance and shame.

Are there issues revolving around certain types of blogs Yes. Child pornography and other unacceptably content is abhorrent to all. Is Tumblr going after those specific types of blogs? No. Are they setting up a system that blocks minors from accessing adult content blogs? No. They are preferring to follow a simplistic “nuke it all” approach rather than address the overall problem. Taking a M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) approach, can only end in one way, for without adult content, Tumblr will die off.

Well, Sirs, boys and all of you in-between… it looks like #Tumblr has made the ultimate stupid move and is banning NSFW content on 17 Dec.

While I’m fairly certain that this will cause this platform to go the way of MySpace, I’m not even sure I would want to come back on here after this announcement, even if Tumblr reverted this ridiculous decision.

So I’m following the lead of many good Tumblrweeds currently in the wind and rolling all the way over to #Twitter:

Follow me at @lockedcub87 for more chaste boy shenanigans!

See you soon, horny ones! ;)

day 63🔒 and cumfree

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

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I debated not sharing this anon but decided to in the end because I actually get quite a few of them.

Self-evidently this is some loser who has nothing better to do than anonymously make offensive comments about other people’s relationships, but I actually get similar questions from people who have read my blog. Really? I don’t understand how people can read my blog and still not understand how @realworldsubmissive and I function as a couple.

Thank you, anon, however, for allowing me the opportunity to once again write something gushing about an interpretation of being a Dom which gets nowhere near enough attention in the public sphere of this sometimes-godforsaken site:

Things to Remember About Me, My Boy and My Relationship

1.       @realworldsubmissive is my boy, he’s also my fiancé

 I have said it before and I’ll say it again: we are partners in a relationship first and the D/s dynamic comes second to that. I am madly in love with this guy and he knows more about me (and I him) than anyone else in the world. He is not my possession or my casual plaything or my object. I do not take from my boy, I accept what is given to me.

And no, that doesn’t make me any less of a man or any less of a Dom for admitting it.

2.       Having an opinion is not a reason to punish him

I have corrected and physically chastised my boy for many things but never for having his own opinion about something and especially not for having that opinion in a public place outside of a scene. My role is not to make him feel insignificant or unworthy of his own mind; it is the role of a Dom to encourage his boy to be the very best they can be and that will absolutely mean sometimes accepting they have a view which isn’t your own. I never set out to have a mindless slave who would say “Yes, Sir” all the time to absolutely everything; where’s the fun in that for a long-term relationship? A sadistic streak sexually and the ability to care for my boy personally are not mutually exclusive.

3.       What I do or do not do with my boy is none of your business It’s easy from the safety of being behind a computer to forget that the community is built on etiquette, standards and protocols. The boundaries are very clear on this one: unless you have my permission and his consent, you do not interfere with my boy at all. This one comes with a small caveat that whatever I do is within the principles of SCC but I can promise you that the day I do something which I believe is emotionally or physically damaging to my boy is the day that I will stop doing anything with him at all. If you want to criticise then do so privately but have the guts to approach me direct; I will explain my reasoning. If I don’t want to treat him like something I’ve stepped in; that’s ok. If I want to let him have the freedom he deserves as a human being; that’s ok too.

4.       We have long-established protocols, limits and ways of interacting which you will not understand @realworldsubmissive and I have been an exclusive couple for over 10 years. The way we interact has matured and developed with us and I love that. We’ve negotiated, we’ve argued, we’ve got it wrong and for every two steps forward we’ve taken there’s been plenty of one step backs. You cannot judge any couple on the very little of themselves they share in public and you certainly cannot judge a D/s dynamic by a few pictures and posts on Tumblr. Get to know the people and you’ll find something very, very different. And to address the anon again: I have never called my boy a fag(got).

  5.       It’s not about the bondage or the sex

People forget that the D/s dynamic, the kinks and the fetishes, the bondage and the pain, and all the paraphernalia isn’t the point. All of these things are an expression of intimacy and of trust; the deepest of trusts between two people.

Tumblr is terrible for perpetuating this idea that BDSM is all about extreme bondage, pain, humiliation and forced subservience. Nothing, in my opinion, could be further from the truth. If I want a hole that I can fill on demand, I’ll buy a fleshjack. What I want is a boy who can be that and then be there to make me think and engage me, to care for and be cared for. I don’t want a slave, I want my lover, my boyfriend, and one day my husband.

We’re 1200 miles apart, boy, and I’m somewhere new and unfamiliar. I can’t tell you exactly where or why.

I know you’ll worry and stress and at times you might feel lonely or even scared.

Let me tell you a secret: I experience all those things too.

Because I love you. And I love you no matter how far apart we might be.

I’ll see you soon, my boy. As soon as I can.