I’ve written here before about the Pornocalypse and the tendency of platforms to shift from supporting sex workers to being overtly hostile. The performer and model Ariel Anderssen has written this excellent substack article on this phenomena from her expert and insider perspective. Her subtitle of ‘On the godforsaken cowardice of porn sites’ captures the spirit of it perfectly.
I think the term Pornocalypse was first coined by Selina Kitt writing about Amazon censoring erotic books back in 2013. I stumbled on it via Bacchus at Eros Blog and this post. It’s a pattern we’ve now seen play out again and again over the past decade or more. What’s particularly insane about the latest round is that it features companies that are primarily all about pornography. Sites like OnlyFans and ManyVids clamping down on their primary business is insane. Or – as Ariel puts it in her excellent article – like they’ve been taken over by a loud, insistent, puritanical alien that doesn’t like pornography.
Most of Ariel’s content features her as a submissive, but I did find this image that has a more Femdom slant. If you’d like to see more of her work, check out her links here.