Sissy Workout

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.

Ab Work

Nice, slim, tone abs; perhaps in the 6-8 pack variety.  Lots of sweet boys want girly and sexy abs, few ever find them.  It’s possible to have a beautiful slim midsection.  It’s not unattainable.  It’s not necessarily genetics at play or simply because you’re an aging man.  It takes patience, discipline, and hard work.  Girly-boys, you can do it.

Since I’m dealing with the abs, there are a few things that i want you to know. 1) It’s a kitchen issue, not a gym issue. 2) Sexy may look like rippled abs, but that is not a sign of great health. It wasn’t the icon of health 30 years ago when rippled midsections were not the craze.  3) Most of what you see in magazines, movies, and other forms of media are models greased up under great lighting and photoshopped.  Be sure, they are fit and slim and have great cores, but often over-exaggerated with a special touch.  And by the way, i don’t mean to take anything away from those who have achieved it naturally.  I have done it, though I’m definitely not there now. 4) Ab work is about strength.  You don’t do work abs to lose fat.  And 5) I want your feminine goals to be realistic.  Set goals that are attainable, not imaginary, which includes doing good exercises in your best girly wear.

Any whole-body exercise is a great exercise for the abs.  Squats, dead lifts, cleans and jerks, snatches, lunges etc.  Also, various forms of bench, overhead presses, and back exercises and many others will work the abs in a big way. 

Today, however, I want to focus your attention on the static leg raise, which of course, will always demand pretty colored leggings.

I used to have this special love-affair with crunches.  I thought, in my inexperience with training, that they were the “go-to” exercise for great abs.  “If i can pound out more and more and more crunches, the abs will come.”  That never happened.  They weren’t all bad, they just weren’t efficient.

Leg raises are where it’s at.  It’s not the only exercise for your girly fit abs.  It may not be the best for a feminine midsection, but they are fantastic; and with a good diet, your core can look great under you pink fitted tank.

What to do 

As with most exercises, there are more variations than your panty collection.  I love leg raises with gymnastic rings.  Whether with holds or with reps, they are wonderful.  They are also good with parallel bars, which is what I’m going to focus on because anybody has a couple of chairs sitting around (no pun intended).

Take two identical chairs and face them toward each other with enough room that you could squat easily between them.  While in-between the chairs, place your hands on a safe place on the seats, palms down.  Lower yourself down into an assisted squat and then lift your knees up while also holding your body up by your arms.  Your arms should be strong, almost to lock-out position and your torso should be as vertical as possible.  What you want to begin with is to get your thighs parallel to the floor.  Your shins should be perpendicular to the floor.  Think of making a 90 degree angle with your legs.  Once the legs are in position (as close to parallel as you can get them), hold them there as long as you can.  Count your time in the hold with a rhythm which can be consistent during all times that you do this.  Once your knees begin to fall slowly, hold out for a few more counts and then rest.

I’d recommend doing this as a beginner variation twice a week.  Shoot for a goal of 3:00 worth of holding within three sets.  It might take you four or five or 6 sets to get to 3:00 (e.g. 60, 50, 45, 25), but your goal is 3 sets.  perform no more than six sets.  3 sets might go 70 count, 60 count, 50 count.  If you can hold for 3:00 within three sets, then you’ll want to begin pulling your feet up until you eventually arrive at an L-sit position.

Now, get your girliest, prettiest, brightest women’s wear out for your next workout and just be you, be strong, and be girly as you work to strengthen your feminine core.

Have fun bunnies!