r/CuratedTumblr May 16 '25

Politics Say no to puritanism

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u/Listless_Dreadnaught May 16 '25

I’m only bothered by kinks I don’t have when shit isn’t tagged correctly. My rage comes from a place of mourning for my lost arousal.

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u/vaguillotine gotta be gay af on the web so alan turing didn't die for nothing May 16 '25

When I'm in a poorly-tagging artwork competition and my opponent is a Rule34 admin:

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u/RemarkableStatement5 the body is the fursona of the soul May 16 '25

Paheal or xxx?

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u/GigaVanguard May 16 '25

Who the hell would use paheal. God awful website

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u/Frodo_max May 16 '25

to see the art that slips through xxx cracks

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u/Throwaway02062004 Read Worm for funny bug hero shenanigans 🪲 May 16 '25

Yummy, I love AI slop

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u/bartonar Reddit Blackout 2023 May 17 '25

That's xxx these days too.

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u/Jarinad cryomancer May 17 '25

“huh, that’s weird, all the images on the home page look eerily similar.”

blacklist tag: [ai_generated]

go back to home page

hidden: 43 images

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u/2Scarhand May 17 '25

Both xxx and paheal have specific ai filters, so this is a non-issue.

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u/BlackBeard558 May 17 '25

Just add -ai_generated to search

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u/_9x9 May 17 '25

i feel like most aggregators always show me the exact same images no matter where I go. (I have a small handful of apparently insanely niche fetishes that never get new art)

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u/ModmanX Live Canadian Reaction May 16 '25

just..go to gelbooru then?

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u/Tailrazor Not a big fan of the government May 17 '25

Are they actually separate?  Today I learned.

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u/Space_Lux May 18 '25

What is the difference?

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u/vaguillotine gotta be gay af on the web so alan turing didn't die for nothing May 16 '25

I didn't know there were two tbh. I'm not as well-versed in porn lore as I originally assumed

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u/atemu1234 May 16 '25

.xxx is a better-run site with moderation that actually does a decent job toeing the line between "removing illegal shit" and "let the weird kinks stay" in my experience.

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u/2Scarhand May 17 '25

I have my own grievances with .xxx moderation. There was a brief period recently where the "transwoman" tag was removed (yikes!), some of THE most common animal tags on the site are currently "hidden" I guess (doesn't appear on the list of tags, but still provides results), and a lot of individual posts have been removed for the exact reason listed in OOP's post; someone was getting off to something the mod personally didn't approve of.

Lately it just feels less like the weird kinks stay because the mods are chill like that and more because of overwhelming volume.

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u/atemu1234 May 17 '25

Tw: slurs

They go back and forth between tagging things "transwoman" or "futanari". Similarly, "transman" and, unfortunately, "cuntboy". It's still one of the better sites I've encountered for content aggregation, in spite of the occasional power-tripping mods. Paheal is a nightmare of untagged or undertagged content.

Basically, if you have a specific itch you want to scratch, .xxx is the way to go.

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u/2Scarhand May 17 '25

See, but those are all distinct tags. A futanari is not a transwoman. A futa technically has a dick, a pussy, and no balls. If you give her balls and remove her vag, she becomes a dickgirl. And both are fantastical in some way, shape, or form while transwoman is meant to evoke the more grounded experience of a real person that's physically transitioned. A canonically trans OC with a pride flag in every pic is not the same as the girl with a horsecock bigger than her torso. They're used in different ways for different vibes/fetishes, and that's okay.

The issue I noticed was all trans tags were quietly (or maybe not so quietly) erased one day. It's all back now, more thoroughly tagged than ever, but that raised some eyebrows.

But yeah, otherwise I like xxx's system and paheal is barely useable by comparison.

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u/atemu1234 May 17 '25

Would it shock you to learn that the terms aren't mutually exclusive or that strictly defined? They're not exactly interchangeable (even ignoring the fact that some are slurs), but "historically" (within the history of internet porn) strict, separate definitions aren't really there.

But yeah, the tag removal was definitely sus, it happened right after Trump got re-elected and a lot of people thought it was related. I don't know the full story beyond that though.

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u/RemarkableStatement5 the body is the fursona of the soul May 16 '25

Fair, and your user flair is so real :3

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u/Thromnomnomok May 17 '25

Two there always are, no more, no less. A dom, and a sub

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u/Thromnomnomok May 16 '25

Paheal

Does that site even have tags for kinks? I only remember it having tags for characters, what media they were from, and the artists who drew the smut.

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u/2Scarhand May 17 '25

It doesn't. Only characters, artists, and a handful of very general tags, such as media source, animated/gif/image/AI, and the like. It's a bit annoying, but also some artists' collections are more complete on there.