Funny and informative without being overly science heavy. I doubt I will post more today, I had planned to do comments but spent most of the day in bed where my back feels the best. That new bed is really good on my back. I don’t intend to post much news until I can get to the old comments but right now videos are the most I can really deal with. I will soon go back to bed and finish watching “The Fifth Element”. Randy has suggested a bed setup for me to work from but the best position for me to slow down the pain is lying flat on one of my sides. I will get the epidural after the MRI and if that doesn’t fix the pain issues then I will switch to fentanyl. Hugs
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when that company with an unfathomable amount of access to everyone’s personal data yassifies the numbers into a cute end-of-year roundup complete with charts and graphics. No, not Spotify Wrapped — we’re talking about the Pornhub Year in Review. And this year, it’s been reported that trans porn exploded in popularity, even as trans sex workers are increasingly losing access to the tools they need to survive and transphobia as a whole is increasing nationwide.
In 2022, porn under the “transgender” category increased in popularity by 75% to become the 7th most popular category worldwide and the 3rd most popular in the U.S., according to the tube site’s report. In addition, “FTM” searches were eight times more popular than “MTF” searches. And men viewed videos tagged as “trans” 22% more than women. However, women on “straight” Pornhub viewed the “trans male” sub-category 115% more than men, lest we think that being a chaser is only limited to one gender or sexuality. Pornhub even noted that the most searched-for gender identities were “non binary,” “gender x” (whatever that means) and “androgynous.”
Interestingly, Pornhub appears to aggregate its data for PornhubGay totally separately, and not by gender. Over on PornhubGay, searches for “FTM” grew 202%, becoming the 20th of the top 20 gay searches, whereas it didn’t rank last year.
Trans porn’s popularity appears to be in keeping with the general trends of the past few years. Last year, searches for “trans” grew 141%, with views of the trans category growing by 23%. In 2017, Pornhub also published a report specifically on the popularity of trans porn; for the most part, and for better or worse, it found that the popularity of trans porn has been steadily increasing since the mid-2010s.
This particular bump in the popularity of trans porn, in addition to last year’s growth, is of course happening at the same time that lawmakers have introduced the highest number of anti-trans and general anti-LGBTQ+ bills in history. That these two occurrences are simultaneous is probably no coincidence. Last year, an Alabama republican lawmaker who voted to criminalize doctors who provide minors with transition-related healthcare was caught liking trans porn on Twitter. And a study from Lawsuit.org additionally found that Google users in Republican states are overwhelmingly responsible for the popularity of certain trans-related porn search terms, like “shemale” and “tranny.”
But this data also likely comes as a slap in the face to trans sex workers, who are facing an increasingly precarious future. In August, Visa and Mastercard announced that it would be suspending payment processing for the ad-buying arm of Mindgeek, the parent company that owns Pornhub, making it much harder for Mindgeek sites to generate revenue and in turn cutting off a revenue stream for the sexworkers who use it. That followed Mastercard’s 2021 rule changes, which stated that the payment processing company could suspend users at any time for selling content that violates its vague rules. That rule change led to OnlyFans’ controversial decision to ban adult content, although that decision was later reversed.
These legal charges against Pornhub have largely been led by the Traffickinghub campaign, which was founded in partnership with the Evangelical Christian group Exodus Cry. And although the goal of protecting children from trafficking and grooming seems to be an admirable one, the vast majority of child exploitation actually happens on Facebook, with a Daily Beast sreport finding that the site recorded 20.3 million reported incidents related to child pornography or trafficking in 2020. By comparison, MindGeek reported 13,229. As the rhetoric of the current anti-trans movement shows, “protecting children” is usually just a smokescreen for something far more unsavory.
Since trans people are far more likely than cis people to rely on sex work for income, these issues disproportionately affect trans workers. And while you could make some pithy jokes about America’s Freudian obsession with trans people, the reality is that trans sex workers remain some of the most vulnerable in our community.
A lot of the reason this happens in the US is because we teach our kids to fear anyone seeing their bodies. Kids in other advanced developed countries are as willing to show themselves to a stranger online hoping it will be a girl / boy they like willing to also show themselves. In other countries when the person really behind the scam comes out the kids are upset but they don’t freak out and give the person money or even worse more explicit videos. They do not kill themselves. Because they know they can go to the parents and tell them, they know that if their friends do get the videos / pictures because they shared their contacts unknowingly that no one will disown them or freak out. Yes they will get teased but it is not the end of the world. Hell in the US adults are still trying to ban porn like it is the 1950s. In the US until the middle to late 1960s it was common for schools that had pools to have the boys swim nude and the girls wear suits often in the pool /pool area at the same time. I have seen the pictures and read the stories. No one cared as it was the custom / tradition before the US got hyper modest and back to being prudish. Here in the US I have read of a rash of kids killing themselves after giving the perpetrator everything they had, hundreds of dollars and including more pictures / videos but they are too scared to tell the parents or let the pictures videos out to their contacts especially if they were gay based. Kids too afraid of their parents seeing their genitalia that they would give a stranger all the money they had and then kill themselves. Teens too afraid of their own friends seeing their junk that they are willing to do anything including kill themselves. In the US we have taken prudishness and weird anti-sex / anti-genitals to the point it is killing our kids. Yet the republicans only focus on stopping any self-enjoyment to force young adults to marry and have more babies just to experience sex. As long as it is the correct kind of sex of course. Hugs
“There’s something so unique about — the LGBTQ community has become this cult and it’s so captivating and it pulls people in so strongly unlike anything we’ve ever seen and they brainwash people to join.
“And they convince them of all these things and it’s really, really hard to get out of it. It’s really difficult.
“I think they’re evil. And sometimes we try to break it down a lot and we discuss why this is happening, what’s happening, whatever, and I think sometimes the simplest answer is they’re just evil.
“They’re bad people. They’re evil people. And they want to groom kids. They’re recruiting.” – Chaya Raichik, owner of LibsOfTikTok, the Twitter account that has spawned violent and armed protests at LGBTQ events.
Chaya Raichik went on Tucker Carlson and said the "LGBTQ community has become this cult… It's extremely poisonous." She later says "They're just evil people, and they're out to groom kids. They're recruiting."
This is 1970's Anita Bryant level bigotry and it's getting promoted by Tucker "Dan White Society" Carlson. These bigots feel so emboldened to spew their hatred openly and incite violence against the LGBTQ community.
I did an in depth thread on the connections between Chaya's tweets and bomb threats. It's not just her but all anti LGBTQ moral panic stories invoke this response now. https://t.co/U4uUS3J5PM
This is the video that Randy sent me. It really is important to how deep indoctrination goes and this is what the supporters of DeathSantis want to push in the Florida public schools. This is what the parents’ rights bill is about, letting these people set the curriculum that kids are taught. No acceptance or tolerance for gays, trans, anything different from White Straight Christian Male led society will be tolerated in anyway. ++ Edit. Any people that are looking for boy lover symbols who have a couple boys are scary as fuck to me. I had an abused childhood and I did not see that. These people are looking for it. I looked (Dogs that love gravy) There is that symbol but because it is so old or well known to law enforcement it is not common anymore, or at least as little as I was willing to go into to it. If you have the stomach for it, it leads you to outdated sites that can show you new symbols, and takes you farther into the rabbit hole. It is like porn key word searches, each new refresh or whatever takes you further down the whirlpool. I am not able or strong enough to do it. If you are like me, trust me, it is like the world pool that can take my mind, it goes deeper and can get stronger as you go farther into it. Remember there are things you cannot forget and things you can never lose the feelings of. I love you all. Hugs
“Biden’s a child molester and he kidnaps children and does horrible things to them just like Hillary Clinton and Obama, who made the virus. The virus is man-made. It doesn’t exist. Kids need to be put back in school.
“The people who are pulling the strings is the Italian Vatican. They actually are reptilian bloodlines from another planet. They’re basically robots.
“Evil people down there such as the Rothschilds, they suck the blood from children to get adrenochrome and stay young and beautiful forever.
“They pick you up and take you in a submarine to Epstein Island, which is where they molest children.”- QAnon grooming victim Jayden, in a scene from The Place Rules, the upcoming HBO documentary.
Twenty years ago, this would have been considered child abuse. Someone in a state-run agency would have looked at this, realized the danger this would have had on the child, opened up an investigation, and deemed the parents unfit.
To think that now this is commonplace and acceptable in society.
25 years ago my poor cousins, just the girls, were forced to wear culottes for Jesus. They were terrified of the the wrath of God, taught Santa was Satan. No state-run agency was there to help – religious freedom protected their parental right to brainwash their children. There’s nothing different here except that you/we/ some of us disagree.
“They actually are reptilian bloodlines from another planet. They’re basically robots.”
Wait, are they reptiles, reptile hybrids, robots, or cyborgs using reptile or reptile hybrid meat parts? I’m so confused.. sadly, this kid is probably very sure of what he’s saying, since he’s being told that it’s the absolute truth by people he trusts. Probably being told he’s saving people by ‘telling the truth’. No wonder these are the folks scared of education.
If he ever gets out of the bubble he’s in, he will find out how much he has been lied to, and how much nonsense he has spouted, and hate the people who did this to him. Or he will run back into the bubble, where he’s praised for thinking and saying it.
Well, slightly different in that it’s literal Nazi propaganda. The Rothschilds suck the blood of babies? Textbook antisemitism warmed over – same with calling gay people groomers and pedos
This type of child abuse has been going on a long time. Marjoe started scream-preaching in the 1940s at the age of 4. In the ’80s, there was this kid: Does This Child Preacher Understand the Words He’s Yelling?
For those who wonder why I get so upset over the right wing media / fox Tucker Carlson / libs of TT claiming that drag queens are groomers, teachers are sexualizing kids in their classrooms, and using violence to shut down drag shows. Even the crap about trans women using the bathroom is going to let “men” rape your little daughters”. Yet none of these people are talking about the people really sexually assaulting kids. I tend to go to the news stories and dogs that love gravy I have to stop doing that as some of the things these religious people are accused of doing by legal authorities, not twitter or Facebook but real law enforcement people, trigger me so bad it causes daytime problems and nightmares. And it is everyday. But no republican in office is addressing it. DeathSantis the Christian savior who forced through the don’t say gay bills outlawing LGBTQI+ in schools and the anti-history bills claiming talking about the reality of slavery is woke and CRT while making white kids sad, never says a word about these religious leaders. Never out laws them? But does give their leaders permission to go into the schools and start clubs. Setting up future kids to be abused. Hugs
A gay reverend has gone viral for his sassy response to a hater who questioned how he could possibly teach Christianity while also sleeping with men–and the reverend’s replies are priceless.
Daniel Brereton, a reverend at St. John’s Dixie Anglican Church in Mississauga, Ontario, shared a tweet containing screenshots of a text exchange he had with an unidentified crank.
“WTF?” the crank began, “How can someone who has sex with men teach people about the Bible?”
Brereton responded, “Sex with ‘men’? The reports of my sex life have been greatly exaggerated.”
Unamused, the hater responded, “Even one man is a sin.”
The reverend wrote back, “You must know my ex.”
The hater then wrote, “You can’t teach the word of God while having sex with men.”
The reverend then sent off a million-dollar retort.
“Are you speaking from experience?” he wrote. “Personally, I’ve never tried doing them at the same time. But I suppose if your camera was stable enough, and your partner quiet enough, and the people in your study group didn’t mind…”
Whoa… Brereton might’ve stumbled onto a hot new kink. We’re not sure if any adult video performers or OnlyFans creators have ever tried combining humping, web-camping, and Bible study, but surely there’s an audience for it — it just seems so… sacre-licious.
Undeterred, the hater replied, “I don’t understand all the people so deceived by you. As a Christian, I would never follow you.”
The reverend accurately responded, “As a Christian, you’re supposed to be following Jesus.”
The hater responded, “At least I don’t f*ck dudes,”
Brereton shot back, “On behalf of every gay man on earth. Thank you.” The shaaaaaade.
“F*ck you,” the hater dumbly responded.
The good rev then clowned the hater, writing back, “Ok, you JUST said you wouldn’t. You’re sending a lot of mixed signals here.”
After that zinger, the hater apparently blocked the reverend from sending him any other messages.
“Well, he finally sent me a clear signal,” Brereton wrote on his tweet containing shots of the exchange. His tweet has gotten over 55K likes as of Wednesday morning.
It’s unclear how the reverend at the hater connected or why the hater seemed so angry yet thirsty for the good rev, but the man of the cloth certainly cut his opponent to shreds.
With his wit (and admittedly good looks), Rev. Brereton is the sort of religious leader we need more of. This exchange is pure gold, but Brereton’s Twitter is also filled with tweets standing up for queer dignity and correcting the misperception that it’s impossible to be gay and Christian.
Haters regularly interpret the Bible to condemn queers (while ignoring its prohibitions against divorce, hypocrisy, and allowing poverty). But most of the Bible’s condemnations against homosexuality are part of ancient Hebrew law which contains prohibitions against shrimp, blended fabrics, and other things that most Christians ignore. Christians also seem to ignore the parts where Jesus stresses the importance of loving literally everyone, whether they’re Christian or not.
Brereton could’ve been much meaner to his hater or ignored him completely. But instead, by standing up for himself, he showed everyone that gay people don’t need to accept shaming from people who claim to speak for God.
“Jesus does say ‘don’t respond to violence with violence,’” the reverend pointed out in another tweet, “but he does NOT tell people to be door mats. He raises the oppressed up into full dignity, he doesn’t tell them they’re earning ‘heaven points’ with every physical and emotional bruise they sustain. Nope.”
Put another way: Stand up to religious bigotry. Jesus and the good reverend command it!
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