Tumblr is a place where recruitment for prostitution, stripping, and pornography production happens.

Tumblr is a place where young transgender people are going to learn messages like “prostitution is a healthy lifestyle and a great way to make easy cash.” Tumblr talks about transgender people a lot, and people on here pretend to be every transsexual’s best friend, but the neglect on the part of some and the active malice on the part of others has made this place as dangerous and toxic a zone for us as any. Down with the myth of the “safe space”. Yesterday I was reading user “monetizeyourcat”’s blog and someone came to him asking if they thought a trans man could “make it” in the prostitution business. Tumblr user “monetizeyourcat” derelicted their moral duty by claiming to not know much about the topic and passing it off to others who “know better”. I chimed in to the comments section with a reply I thought was more suitable, telling them in no uncertain terms that they should not do this to themselves. To prostitute oneself is to endanger oneself in so many ways.

But, another user, who used to go by the name “jobhaver” but is currently “jobcadaver” posted this in the comments section:

“there are a handful of trans men in mainstream pornography, somewhat more in “queer porn” (which pays shitty) and there are also some trans rentboys. you could be a PSO or a prodomme as those are things that dont involve your junk. idk about webcams”

“jobhaver” is, as she openly declares on her page, a stripper who works on webcam, advising a young trans person to become a “rentboy” or some other dubious-sounding things. jobhaver should get out of the pornography business right now, she deserves better, and she should refrain from encouraging other people to put themselves through the same experiences and have their intimate sexual images commoditized and sold.



Yet, there are numerous accounts on Tumblr dedicated to dispensing the malign advice that jobhaver offered this anonymous trans man asker on monetizeyourcat’s account. Odofemi, run by a Canadian prostitution apologist/recruiter, posts frequently about her lifestyle and encourages other people to consider it as a healthy, safe career like any other, despite the fact that prostitution always involves the sale and commoditization of sexual consent to untrustworthy and potentially dangerous clients. No job should ever involve that. Odofemi, however, considers herself strongly identified with her capacities both as prostituted and as apologist. When confronted with a news story about sex trafficking of native american women in Duluth, MN, Odofemi demanded to “see the receipts”, because she legitimately believes that anti-sex trafficking activists are part of an international kinkshaming conspiracy, and I guess because she thinks that sex slavers keep receipts and file taxes and shit??

Do you know what johns, pimps, and producers/consumers of trans-themed pornography really think of us? Do you know why a market for this stuff exists? It’s because these loathsome scumbags who try to sell our sexual autonomy and buy the right to abuse us see trans people as “the lowest possible”. There is not a “chaser” on this earth who is not in it for either the experience of being able to freely live out their fantasies of abusing something “freakier” than a “normal” prostitute for once, or the ability to get off to the sense that they’re being debased by “submitting” to a “prodomme” of such freakiness. Tumblr is teaching young trans people to financially and volitionally submit themselves to predators. Fuck you, fuck me, fuck everyone for ignoring this for so long.

Tumblr is not a safe space. That’s preposterous. People, too-trusting people, are learning that selling your sexual consent to strangers isnormal and good. Child molestors and incest-themed crypto-molestors known as “daddy doms” have a haven here. Sexual abuse is widely fetishized in all the “fandoms” under euphemistic titles like “dubcon”. Tumblr is not a safe space. Tumblr is a hellscape. And no one is talking about it, or when they do they’re getting drowned out with watery accusations of “kinkshaming” or “sex negativity”, as though there were anything positive about advocating the normalized sexual abuse of women and trans people.