lezzyharpy:

ill be honest im not sure how to reconcile the incontrovertible fact that this change WILL be devastating to sex workers that use this site, and have since its inception, with the idea that this change is overall a good thing with a few asterisks

its not even an issue of “oh this sucks for sex workers but at least itll be safe for minors now” cuz given the guidelines tumblr has posted, which allows both written erotica AND any images of minors that arent explicitly sexual content, so still allowing gross shit so long as they skirt some rules

when we continually deem sex workers an acceptable sacrifice that pushes them further and further into danger every time and its just not something we can write off

this change will make it easier to search fandom tags without being assaulted w pics of every character in a kids show fucking, which is great, but speaking from personal experience, when i was younger, the nasty ass fic stuff that people wrote was at least as damaging to me cuz that didnt have the same immediate scroll past it response when i was more in fandom