I keep noticing how some artists have been silently leaving the fandom. Like, the kind of artist that’ll make casual posts and usually have an open and welcoming attitude about fellow fans and homestuck by itself.
While I’m sure they leave for their own reasons, I cant help but be aware that these artists may come and go sometimes because of either the stressful environment of the fandom, or get targeted/bullied enough for no real reason to the point that they wanna leave, and their traction on people’s dashes get replaced by other artists (or even just louder blogs in general) who instead make fun of others people’s art and like to passive aggressively critique the artistic expression of other’s in the fandom (from ships, to fave characters, to headcanons, to other things one would dub as cringe culture).
Like, unless some other’s want to shape up and stop being assholes, there’s nothing that can really be done, but I’m just a little sad that we’re left with less positive content creators to look up to around here and more that like putting others on blast and sneering at art habits that other homestuck artists have, all while wrapping themselves in this thin veil of woke purity.
Hey, positive Homestuck blogs, reblog this! I’m still here and I know I follow plenty of you that are still supportive, creative and welcoming. Spread this around for other people to find and follow, don’t let the loud assholes drown us out.
For a growing number of American kids, porn is their sex ed.
Now Pornhub is hoping to offer their audience some more formal lessons
in how to be a healthy and happy sexual being.
On Wednesday, the massive adult entertainment destination took the
somewhat surprising step of launching the “Pornhub Sexual Health
Center.” They’re hoping the free sub-site
will become a go-to resource for some of their 70 million daily users
on all manner of topics, including STIs, sexual safety and how to manage
relationships.
They’ve chosen Dr. Laurie Betito, a renowned sex therapist, to direct
the site and they’ll also be working with a number of doctors,
therapists and other experts to offer advice and answer questions. Corey
Price, Pornhub’s Vice President, told Mashable, “Our goal is
to provide our visitors with a site that has credible and insightful
information, rather than have them scouring the internet.”
While it’s a database they’ll build up over time, a first look
reveals they’ve started with the fundamentals — with answers to things
like “Babies. Where do they come from?” and “Are there really three
holes?” These might seems almost laughably basic to adult consumers of
hardcore porn, but there are a lot of young people for whom these are
very real questions.
Price told Mashable they weren’t aiming the content
specifically at beginners. He said they simply want to appeal to “those
who are looking for trustworthy sex tips and health advice provided by
experts.” But it seems like they realize this could prove to be an
especially valuable resource for their younger audience, who most likely
isn’t getting comprehensive (much less sex-positive) sex ed in schools.
There are, of course, plenty of online sexual health and education
resources, but for many kids, landing on sites like Pornhub is already
their way into learning about sex. Porn can obviously teach you plenty
about the basics and mechanics of intercourse, but there’s a whole range
of other things — biology, health, consent, relating to intimate
partners, just to name a few — that you won’t pick up from watching
videos like “Big tits round asses” or “Sloppy throat games.”
So if they can slide their curious audience over to the PSHC while
they’re already on the site, it could function as pretty useful one-stop
shop for filling in the blanks left by spotty sex ed classes and the
birds and bees talks given by often bewildered parents.
Neat!
Holy shit their section on trans people was actually really good and not what I expected from something hosted by a porn site! If they had a containing various sexualities and whatnot as well, they’ll definitely have a good resource on their hands!
America: where sex education is literally so bad the porn industry has to step in
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