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Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How can such a fundamental element of thr human experience can be so conspicuously absent for almost all art and media.

What are you talking about? Heaps of movies have sex scenes. Heaps of songs are about sex. There are heaps of books and other stories about sex. The internet is packed with sex stuff of all kinds. Advertisements in the street are obvious implicitly or explicitly about sex. So how can you say that sex is 'conspicuously absent from almost all art and media'? Are you looking?

Allowing explicit porn on twitter doesn't make it ground-breaking in any way. It just changes the tone and target audience of the site, such that you will now see porn inserted into basically any conversation or topic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I should have clarified, freely available mainstream media and art. I don't watch ads so I can't say for sure, I don't consider advertising to be part of art and media, more like a form of pollution on top.

From what I've senn tge most you might get are suggestive allusions to sex. It's just not treated as the everyday part of life that it is.

By comparison, it is entirely overshadowed by violence and gore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Every new game that is released with a character dressed in even a slightly sexually suggestive way results in a rabid meltdown from braindead Twitter users. Payment processors like PayPal are forbidding the use of their services for NSFW content due to pressure from fundamentalist christian organizations like Exodus Cry, under the guise of "child safety"