This post started like most of my posts do. I spotted an interesting image somewhere online, probably on a tumblr site, and saved it for a future post. I initially like the shot below for the two expressions, her focus on the book and his focus on her. He reminded me a little of a dog sitting patiently, staring at its owner. That sense of rapt attention and the hope that just maybe there’s a treat in store. It wasn’t until I came back to look at it later that I noticed she was treading on his cock. For some people that’s probably the focal point of the picture, but for me that was just a nice bonus.
However, when I came to post the picture I had bit of a shock. It’s clearly from the Young Goddess site, but as I went to create the attribution link I discovered the site no longer exists. It has been around for years, and has produced some interesting and enjoyable content. I’ve featured it in pasts post, for example here and here, but sadly it’s now gone. Instead, there’s just a message thanking its members and a statement about the evils of stealing content and reposting it on forum sites. As someone about to repost one of their images, that was an unpleasant and disturbing thing to read.
I always try and operated on the principle of ‘do no harm’. Ideally I drive traffic and value to content providers, but at a minimum I shouldn’t cost them anything. I don’t feel I’m in any kind of competition with content producers, as this really isn’t a blog designed to get people off. If that happens then great, but I envision the images I post as more of an amuse-bouche for the libido rather a full meal. Hopefully it inspires people to go and look at the sites of the original creators, rather than heading off to the torrent and file sharing sites. But I might just be fooling myself about that.
Tumblr sites, which I list and promote, operate in even more murky waters. They carry a huge amount of copyright material (often minus the attribution) and most, outside the curation and aggregation of the pictures, don’t add a huge amount of extra value. Arguably that whole tumblr ecosystem is in very direct competition with content producers. If someone wants to masturbate to a particular type of porn, odds are they’ll find a number of tumblr sites dedicated to whatever they’re lusting for. For mainly video producers (like kink.com) I suspect it doesn’t matter, but for professional artists like Sardax and Nanshakh, I do wonder what impact it has.
Unfortunately there are no easy answers here (although there are certainly some bad ones). In the meantime I’d encourage all my readers to support original content producers and purchase the porn they enjoy. Otherwise they may find that one day it just doesn’t exist anymore.