The social media platform, better known for its confessional diaries and inspirational memes, is quickly becoming one of the top destinations for pornographic photo shoots, explicit GIFs and filthy accounts of NSFW encounters. As of 2013, roughly 11.4% of Tumblr's top 200,000 visited blogs contained adult content, according to TechCrunch. People are not only becoming more vocal about their porn interest on social media, but the porn that's being created and shared is much softer, more erotic and, yes, more romantic than your typical porn fare. The biggest fans of this Tumblr porn? Typical 20-something couples, who are ready to put their personal lives on display.Ī new way to explore: What do people really want from their porn? Judging by the numbers, conventional search terms like "MILF," "gangbang" and "creampie" rank among the most searched for terms on Pornhub by millennials, according to an analysis conducted by Mic and Pornhub in July.īut that might not be what all 20-somethings actually want in the bedroom - or from their porn, for that matter. A 2014 study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, for instance, found that the most popular sexual fantasies of both men and women focused on feeling a strong romantic attachment during sex and oral sex with a partner, according to Business Insider. That may be why couples are sharing their most intimate moments with the Internet, especially on Tumblr, where "TMI" is de rigueur. While revenge porn and invasive nude photo leaks threaten the privacy of many couples, on Tumblr, personal shots are voluntarily submitted. People who create Tumblr porn often crop out their own faces and adopt cute monikers to ensure their identities remain safely hidden, but the fact that they look like the average couple next door is a huge part of the turn-on. "Couples will come and have sex on camera and it is always interesting and hot to see how other couples are doing it," Sid*, 26, who runs a sexy Tumblr with his long-term girlfriend, told Mic. "It gave us a lot of new ideas about what to try." Sid and his girlfriend, like many Tumblr users, are both creators and consumers of porn blogs.
The welcome wagon of porn: Unlike other porn sites, which typically organize videos according to genre, Tumblr offers a rapidly changing buffet of sexy content. The GIFs and photos are catalogued by tagged sexual predilections, featuring different body types, backgrounds, ages, interests and orientations. You're just as likely to find a GIF of analingus as a shot of a nude couple cuddling. Kinks on Tumblr, in very tasteful ways," Alex*, 28, a Tumblr porn fan, told Mic. "It is absolutely where most learn about it in the best, most educated way, as well as develop and explore their taste." And while tube sites typically segregate gay porn and straight porn, Tumblr makes no such distinction.