Tumblr has been a safe and reliable place to look at pornographic images for more than a decade whether those images were drawings, GIFs, photographs, or short videos. But that’s changing in two weeks. The platform’s CEO announced in a lengthy Tumblr post on Monday that the service plans to ban all adult content. There will be some exceptions, like for art with nudity, but for the most part, the days are numbered for existing Tumblr posts featuring nudity or other pornographic content. The policy comes two weeks after Tumblr was kicked off the Apple App Store because some child pornography reportedly slipped through its filters. It’s unclear if Tumblr didn’t respond to just these reports of child porn fast enough, or if this is a long-standing problem.

It’s certainly true that Tumblr, which now is owned by Verizon, needs to work vigilantly and hire people to make sure that its services aren’t used to abuse minors and traffic in child pornography. Pedophilic material is something that all live-to-post services need to seriously contend with and actively engage in rooting out, whether they are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter’s Periscope—where I found last year that apparent pedophiles were frequently preying on young users—or Tumblr. But the platform’s fix is the equivalent of hammering a nail with a skyscraper, only to have it slip through an open window. It’s an overreaching solution that won’t protect children who are victims of child pornography, seekers of which will all but certainly find another place to go.

What banning “adult content” will do, however, is eradicate one of the few mainstream, safe, and non-taboo places where people could participate in communities that openly congregate around sex and sexuality. Sex is great, and it’s no wonder that people like to consume sexual images—much of the internet is dedicated to this. Knowing that one could roll onto Tumblr, a very popular social media site, find a blog dedicated to whatever flavor of porn one likes, and look at images that turn one on, made the whole ordeal of seeking sexual imagery less daunting, demeaning, and dangerous.

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Anonymous: Shouldn’t Anal Only Lifestyle actually be fine? Since the new restrictions don’t apply to text.

It might be, and we’ll see what happens when the day comes, but I’m inclined to move everything off Tumblr and stop supporting the platform entirely at this point.

Tumblr has updated their terms of service and will be banning all adult blogs starting December 17. That means this blog and all associated blogs will be disabled and removed from public access soon.

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content

Obviously, I’m quite disappointed by this and the resulting loss of over 6 years of work building and maintaining this blog and its community. I will try to set up a mirror of the Anal Only Lifestyle blog in the coming weeks, but I expect that the porn blogs may be gone for good just due to the costs of hosting large amounts of image/video content.

How Can I Stay Connected to the Anal Only Lifestyle Community?

Fortunately, we’re far more than just these blogs! This blog will remain in place at its current URL, but will be moving off Tumblr before the 17th. Our community is centralized at the Anal Only Lifestyle Forum and Discord server. Please join and bookmark these links in order to stay connected with this community and follow our next steps as we continue to build and grow the anal only community. In addition to discussion and realtime chat, the Discord server also has porn sharing sections.

You can also find us on Twitter and Reddit.

What Can I Do About My Own Blog?

Tumblr lets you back up and download your blog. Go to your Blog Settings page for the blog in question, scroll to the bottom, click the Export button at the bottom, and wait for an email that notifies you it’s ready to be downloaded. If it’s a big blog, it might be a very large file—this blog was 25 GB!

I just wanted to say hello. I’m glad I found this group and I look forward to a reading lots of advice and such.

Thank you for your message, and welcome! I hope you find it enlightening, and feel free to send other comments or ask questions.

Anonymous: It’s hard to find your blog anymore, what’s going on? I hope you aren’t going away!

Definitely never going away, this community will always exist in some form, and this blog will exist as long as it can.

Tumblr has made it harder for people to find adult-oriented content, blocked it from public search engines, and only allows logged-in members to view such blogs, but it’s still here if you get past all that. And until a better alternative to Tumblr exists that doesn’t censor sexual topics, this blog will remain here.

In the meantime, and if this blog ever does disappear, you can follow and join the rest of the anal only community.

• The Anal Only Lifestyle forum is the central hub of the community, with thousands of discussions and shared experiences, and links to the rest of the community.
• The Anal Only Lifestyle Discord server is the realtime chat equivalent of the forum and probably where the most activity happens within the AO community, so definitely join and check that out!

This blog and its greater community isn’t just a one-way street where I and other people post and share, we want to hear your experiences, comments, and questions too! Whatever it may be, feel free to ask a question and I’ll be happy to respond as soon as I’m able!

Anonymous: Didnt you used to post pics/gifs

You may be confusing this blog with its sister blog (NSFW), which does post porn. This blog has always been for discussion, advice and sharing.

Update December 2018: Tumblr has since banned adult content and that blog is no more. See our Anal Only Porn Blogs page for updated links for some such blogs that have moved to other platforms.

Anonymous: Hi, I was wondering if you had any recommendations for AO blogs that aren’t D/s oriented? While I totally respect everyone’s right to do whatever they want in their relationships as long as everyone’s consenting, all that stuff is a big turn off for me. Like what you said in a recent post, AO doesn’t HAVE to be about submission and women being called sluts and degraded, but I have such a hard time finding blogs that don’t include that aspect. Any recommendations?

I myself try to have a balanced mix of content, some of which is a bit more D/s oriented, and some not. Other blogs often do lean a bit more in that direction, partly just because while there’s absolutely no inherent need for the anal only lifestyle to be tied to dominance or submission, it does pair well and appeals to a lot of people who already have that interest.

It’s something that would be nice to see more of, blogs that are still strictly anal only but with captions focused on people who have gone anal only strictly out of preference and pleasure. I’d suggest starting one yourself if you can’t find more that already exist.

You can also check out our forum, which, like this blog is more oriented around real people following the lifestyle and their real experiences rather than fantasy.

Anonymous: Do you encourage pegging any of the sort

It’s not typically the focus of my blog, but everyone is welcome in the anal only lifestyle, and men can certainly enjoy receiving anal as well as women. If it’s something you enjoy, go for it!

lonely-cute-boy: i allways liked anal sex,is so diferent and forbidden, dirty and wrong… Now i absolutely hate vaginal penetration, specially because of pregnancy consequences. But i have a severe problem with this AO community that dont let me join the thing: The strong misogynistic speech within the community. Some of you says horrible things against the female genitalia, and scorn the core of womanhood. I like to consider myself AO but i also love oral (cunnilingus). And i hate yours speech against clit.

I’ve gotten messages from you for years across my various blogs, usually containing extremely hateful language and death threats/encouragements to kill myself. So I don’t owe you any response at all and the only reason I’m even acknowledging this message is because it’s the first in all that time that warrants an actual response that might be beneficial to the other followers of this blog.

Understand that not all blogs are alike and while there are certainly those with a misogyny kink, none of those are mine nor are they endorsed by me. And while I do encourage people interested in the anal only lifestyle to also experiment with clitoral denial and see what the benefits of it are for themselves and then decide whether it’s something they want, it’s certainly not a requirement for the anal only lifestyle, and I would say that the majority of anal only women enjoy a combination of clitoral stimulation and anal penetration. There’s nothing wrong with that if it works for them.

My encouragement to go without clitoral stimulation is due to certain benefits for some women who can suffer from a sort of depression and serious loss of arousal post-clitoral orgasm, as well as the fact that focusing on just anal stimulation without any vaginal or clitoral stimulation, it is often possible to unlock increased forms of anal pleasure and learn how to orgasm from anal alone. So the intent and focus here is in developing increased pleasure, not denying pleasure.

If you enjoy performing cunnilingus and clitoral stimulation on women alongside anal sex while excluding any vaginal penetration, that’s still consistent with the anal only lifestyle, so long as your partner wants the same. The fundamental “rule” of anal only is that you don’t engage in vaginal intercourse. Everything else is up to your own personal interpretation and what works for you and your partner.

You’re accusing me and others of saying horrible things about the female genitalia, but you yourself opened this message by saying that you hate vaginal penetration. Now, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that—I’m not at all a fan either—but it’s a bit hypocritical to say that and then accuse others of being hateful by saying they don’t like clitoral stimulation. Women aren’t just their vaginas or their clits, they’re people. And people are complex. Some might agree that their vagina or clit is their sexual/pleasure center, but others are going to much prefer their ass getting all the attention. You have your preferences. Recognize that other people, men and women both, have their own preferences as well and they may differ from your own, and that conflict doesn’t make the other people evil or hateful, nor does it justify your own hateful reaction.

The original version of this post on Tumblr received the following response.

tenderlyfoulphantom: Yes, it is sad and a little bewildering that so much AO (and just A) stuff is permeated by miscogyny. It should be about pleasure, not pleasure through inflicting pain. There can be an air of the forbidden without expressions of hatred and pain.

To which the following response was given:

I’d argue that the majority of AO content online is not that way at all, but there are some blogs that focus on that aspect of things. But understand too that it’s a kink and fantasy for the vast majority who post such content. There are those of all genders who appreciate it for that kink. Just because you and I aren’t into that aspect of AO doesn’t make it wrong so long as it’s consensual. We can just choose to not follow those blogs.