Sea, sex and sun

Dear Tumblr,

apparently you feel that adult content is no longer allowable on your site. Could you explain that decision, as the last time I looked everyone I was following or speaking to on your site was an adult, and could therefore legally show or talk about anything legal? As far as I am aware it is not illegal to share photos or video of oneself naked or in sexual situations, provided it is consensual, except of course in those jurisdictions which are totalitarian or punitive of any images of women not fully covered.

You do not want to be associated with such societies do you? Or perhaps you do? Is your desire to commercially infiltrate punitive societies behind your censorship of more tolerant ones?

Or is there a desire, since adult content is banned, to infantilise your audience? I would point out that to most of us adults, cute kittens and puppies and lovely scenery quickly pall.

I am a poet, but I sometimes write erotica which I see you bizarrely allow, but my inspiration for such erotica is the often explicit photos which friendly users here allow me to use, so you allow the poetry but deny me the inspiration, and I cannot see the logic in that.

Sadly, I see Tumblr crumbling to nothing in a few months, a year at best, like Flickr before it, and MySpace, relics of a time when adults where in charge of our space on the Net and not corporations scared of any adverse publicity. I urge users here to evacuate Tumblr as quickly as possible, and I hope there are those more egalitarian who will make a new space.