A Note to Minors:
I see a lot on tumblr lately regarding the defense of underage participants in a certain community, as well as the underage participants expressing anger that they are not welcome on NSFW blogs. As a NSFW blogger, as well as someone who has come to know various sex laws due to their career, I thought I would clarify some things:
1. It doesn’t matter what the age of consent in your state is. Age of consent refers to the age that you are able to consent to sexual activity only.
2. Even if you are able to consent at age 16 or 17, by law you are still a minor. Pornography cannot be sold or viewed by minors.
3. If you are under 18 and you post explicit photos of yourself, you can be charged with creating and circulating child pornography, as the images contain a minor.
4. It is normal to have interests in sex and kink, regardless of age. There are safe spaces on the internet to seek these out and ask questions regarding your interests. Spaces where you can communicate with other teens, that are well moderated and do not allow adults to freely graze and prey. Scarleteen.com is probably the greatest example.
5. As a minor, showing purposeful disregard for another blogger or a website’s request that no minors be present on the site (and for some explicit material, 21 is the age for legal viewership) puts the owner of that blog and/or website at risk. No one wants to see awesome sex bloggers get shut down or sex friendly spaces on the internet get hit for having underage members. Think about more than just yourselves.
If you’re under 18, unfollow me. Don’t argue, don’t flame me, just unfollow. I’ll be the first person to high five you when you turn 18 and we can reminisce about how much it sucked to wait. Until then, peace out.
Minors — If you are following me, please read, heed, and unfollow me. Thank you.
Ditto.
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Ain’t nobody got time for dat!
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I want to add on this from a Mother’s perspective: I had no idea that kids were advocating to be allowed on NSFW sites. I would be mortified if any of my children were secretly involved in doing anything more than I’ve allowed them to do on the internet. Period.
This is literally THEE worst part of being in the generation that bridges the “pre - cell phone era” to the “every child has got a phone or tablet era”.
My children are already exposed to more mature content at an earlier age than me. And the youth of this nation will never get back that good old fashioned innocence of learning by playing in the streets, whatever those streets were to you. We didn’t grow up in a virtual world with so much outside influence, and the thirst for likes, and sharing gossip publicly. Shit, a lot of us can hardly keep up with the apps and lingo and filters.
So, as parents, this change is already hard on us. We’re not only adapting to the new technologies, but raising our children in a world that we didn’t grow up in. Where everything was different. Our natural inclination is to want to protect you. Especially when you’re trying to do things we’ve never experienced ourselves.
And once this new door opened, it also introduced a whole new breed of predator that we were never exposed to.
I’m constantly asking my children who they are talking to online and in games and how do they know that’s who they’re talking to. And then if they know this person well, I see what information they are giving to the other person. I allow them friends and friends of friends. That’s it. I’m trying to protect them from unsafe spaces and people.
So, minors, please stop advocating to be allowed in non-safe spaces. We are doing this so you can more easily identify non-safe spaces.
NSFW = Not Safe For Work = Adults consenting to sharing adult content, whether that be pictures, comments, messages. Etc. that could be considered naughty. Don’t look at this in a professional setting. And we are also telling minors. This is adult content. Not safe for you.
So when you find a page that is adult content WITHOUT stating it is NSFW or minors, ALSO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. This is likely a predator.
Imagine doors in a hallway.
Some are marked safe.
Some are marked not safe.
Some are blank.
You’re only allowed in the safe ones until you’re 18.
You’re not allowed to advocate to change the door titles or go in any unsafe or blank doors.
Once you’re 18, you can go in the not safe doors, with caution, like for example not at work.
And I guess you could go in the blank doors. But I don’t. And you’re mother probably doesn’t want you to either.
Stay safe. It’s a scary world out there, my friends.
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This is all so well said!
