Censorship and the Lifestyle

We got an email newsletter this week from the folks who put on Naughty in New Orleans. There was an article there discussing censorship, specifically how platforms like Facebook and Mailchimp are now purging and filtering content that might be related to sex.

We are members of several Facebook groups, have a Facebook page and we new it was probably only a matter of time before they got puritanical on all of us. Now we haven’t had any issues yet, but we wanted to make you all aware of what might be coming around.

Facebook is now banning any content in which it believes people are contacting other people on its platform to engage in any sexual activity, “including partners who share fetish or sexual interests.”

There are a ton of other things Facebook is banning when it comes to user content, including using “sexual slang terms” and even “sexual fetish items,” which we assume are photos of floggers, restraints, ball gags, and such.

It doesn’t stop there. Facebook won’t allow you to share links to websites they consider “Adult,” but it never specifies what makes a website adult…

Here is a link to the full post from Naughty

So how does Swinger University fit into all this? It probably depends on who you ask. Are we entertainment, education, porn? We feel that providing adults education about sex, and sexual experiences is important work. As humans, we are all sexual beings. Why would we ignore this integral part of what makes us human? But we know that there has been a war on sex in this country for a long time. Ironically in the entertainment and advertising world it’s critical to its success. But it’s a fine line before it crosses into the realm of “porn”.

Phoebe and I watched a documentary recently that brilliantly discussed sex education, or the utter and complete lack of it, in America. What it brought to light is out of the utter fear that children might be exposed to the darker aspects of sexuality we should just avoid/hide/ban all discussions of sex… It’s just safer that way. 😞

What this ignores is that ignorance of sex is the number one cause of teenage pregnancy and abortion… Maybe if we taught kids, and teens to respect sex, to understand the risks of it, they might be able to have some context for sex. With this context… they could make more informed decisions.

Maybe one day we’ll all stop burying our heads in the sand thinking that if we just ignore something we don’t have to worry about it.