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Body Geometry:

Main Source for unblurred versions of photos Mastodon.art

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Blurred for tumblr butt unblurred here.

Why must we do that?

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Working Man. Before censors pixelated the sacred, we saw men whole. Sweat, flesh, and b*lls— not symbols, just truth. Now they tell us to look away, shadowed and solemn, held more than shame dared name. Now they tell us to look away. I grew up around working men in Appalachia. Blue collar, if that's what you called, it was the norm. It was what a man was. And boys were working on becoming. I remember summers of hard physical labor from very young while many others were playing. These guys weren't the stereotypes we have made them today. They certainly were not ignorant fools as often portrayed. Most guys could do about anything from putting on a new roof, rebuilding an engine, building a garage, to butchering a hog. I know. I helped do it. I was nothing special. The only hard physical work I do know is in the gym or on the track. I miss those old days of hard work. The best I can do is represent it in a photo. Censored of course. Unblurred full version which actually represent fully what I meant to portray (a key part of what makes a man) is here.

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Funny, isn’t it, that the statue of David stands in a tourist swarm, snapped a thousand times a day— his stone genitals tagged in Instagram stories as “classic,” while a living body in black and white gets quietly banned for violating “community standards.”

Censored for your comfort. Uncensored for your thinking: here

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Scratch all below. They are as restrictive as Tumblr. My information was wrong. New uncensored account on Mastodon.art here. This will allow more time coming up with already hard to come up with ideas without worrying whether or not the photo violates some inconsistent rules of tumblr concerning what is mature or forbidden. A photo with a glimpse of a penis on a man? Terrible. Worse than a nipple on a female breast. (That site also censors, but from what I see, mostly wrong word choices or wrong-thinking, but maybe less so on photography. There is no escaping...)

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Full "uncut" version on are.na here.

“Too gay,” a female friend said. Seated, naked, turned from view—but not hiding. The chair is no barrier. He is his own form, his own subject, his own end. The male body here is not for consumption or conquest. It resists the lens by offering nothing but itself—present, at rest, unconcerned. Is it male nudity that’s too gay? Or the absence of apology?

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Funny, isn’t it, that the statue of David stands in a tourist swarm, snapped a thousand times a day— his stone genitals tagged in Instagram stories as “classic,” while a living body in black and white gets quietly banned for violating “community standards.”

Censored for your comfort. Uncensored for your thinking: here

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In order to avoid the chaotic, inconsistent censorship algorithm and human moderation on tumblr, I plan to occasionally add images to a new account on are.na here. I will post censored copies here and link to originals on that account and see how that works. Tumblr will censor censored images o males, though, so we'll see.

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F-you, Tumblr. Do you actually have any consistent definition of explicit or mature content. The answer is no. No wonder the platform has being going to hell for years.

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Still looking for something to replace tumblr that does not mistake simple nudity with adult content. (The censorship is bad for all, but said to be worse for transgender.)

Tumblr's (inconsistent) Fear of (mostly male) Nudity

Don't look!

(You'll find "adult" content all over tumblr with little effort. However, Tumblr seems to make little to no effort for consistency. It cannot even define "Mature or Adult" in a wya that even its employees can understand. I have challenged their labeling and won the challenge only to have another tumblr employee re-label a post as adult. Naked men are especially scary regardless on whether or not genitals are exposed. As we know, here in the 1950s, a glimpse of, or even the though of genitals, reduces any type of painting, drawing, sketching, and so on to porn.)

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There's something about naked butts that make them art. Tokyo, Japan