She quotes Sofia Barrett-Ibarria: “ex workers populated early chat rooms, fueled the rise of ecommerce…adopted cryptocurrencies… pioneered the early internet and made it profitable, until eventually, it screwed them over.”īarrett-Ibarria’s point is, in a way, the thesis of this little book: Sex workers and LGBTQ+ communities made the Internet what it was - until it became profitable enough that, in pursuit of mainstream dollars, we were kicked out. “Sex workers and adult content creators have always been the driving force behind new media technology,” Valens argues. In Tumblr Porn, Valens charts this early Internet history, especially the impact sex workers had and the early spaces LGBTQ+ people carved out online.
I might have discovered the NSFW side of Tumblr. If I had, I might have learned a lot more about myself at a much younger age. I still looked at it, just less frequently and with much more guilt, but I wasn’t seeking it out or exploring my interests. I never got into chat rooms or forums, and around age 12, I decided to join the church - and pornography was sinful. Unlike Valens, that’s as far as it went for me. And because each individual image took multiple minutes to download, I would print them out and hide them under my mattress. My first porn memory is of downloading computer-generated, polygonal images of Lara Croft, main character of the “Tomb Raider” Playstation games, nude.
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One of the first things I did, between playing Pokémon online and doing a new-fangled thing called “blogging,” was slowly, deliberately download porn. We started with AOL, and before long I had a computer in my bedroom and a 56k dial-up internet connection. Like Ana Valens, author of Tumblr Porn, I cajoled my parents into wiring the family up to the then-novel Internet in the late ’90s. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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