Rated G Or Rated X?

Hillary Louise Johnson argues that an all-or-nothing approach to sexual expression on the Internet misrepresents how people actually behave:

The rise of the privately-held, terms-of-service-governed internet has cultivated a binary view of sex, in which all content is divided into two categories: porn and not-porn. As a result, I can have a G-rated profile on Facebook, and/or an X rated one on Fetlife. But you will not see overlap between those. No one on Fetlife talks about their kids or their day at work, no more than anyone on Facebook talks about putting on a leather pony costume and playing giddyup in the local dungeon on a Saturday night. On Fetlife, you post pictures of your genitals, but not of your face (lest a cousin or co-worker stumble across your profile, presumably), and on Facebook…well, it’s called Facebook, not Assbook. …

So as much as I love the internet, its rules of engagement do not satisfy my desire as an enlightened and liberal human being … to live on my own terms, which means openly acknowledging that I do, in fact, have a sexual identity that is not separate from other aspects of my identity, and that I may want to express and promote ideas that do not easily fall into the binary porn/not-porn baskets carved out for us by terms of service and content guidelines: I might want to write a review of an erotic art show that isn’t porn, or introduce my followers to my friend’s sex advice column, or publish a short story that includes graphic sex but isn’t porn or erotica—that gray area known in some circles as literature.