So I just spent about 2 hours going through broken links as HostGator reached out to warn me that there might be Malware on the website. Turns out, NOT Malware (phew), just a metric fuckton of broken links. Which is really saddening. A lot of these links are because of Etsy completely fucking over the independent creators and crafters of sex toys, some are because IG/Meta has been systematically erasing any sexuality-based content for education or otherwise, and some are simply companies and blogs that are now defunct because they can’t afford to keep running, whether monetarily or due to straight up (and pervasively valid) burnout.
This is what censorship does: shifts in society’s narrative around capitalism and profit, foreboding of what may be to come when it comes to pleasure, bodily autonomy, and providing people with risk-reductive access to information that is not anecdotal or novelty but rather a human fucking (pun cautiously intended) right.
I’d say more, but a lot of us saw this coming (there’s only so much dancing we can do with using terms like “secks” or “s3x” or whatever bullshit loopholes the algorithms haven’t caught onto) and I’m not sure what else I can do besides keep this blog alive even if it’s inactive. Yes, I’m still teaching and using and loving the world of sex toys. The financial worth of what I keep in my collection doesn’t even scratch the surface of their priceless value they have for my identity and what they have done to make me the person I am today. That is a hill of dildos I am willing to die on.
And so we keep fighting however we can.