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There is one point I would like to draw your attention to...

Ever since I created this blog—which I made clear from the very beginning was intended for an adult audience—I've been constantly harassed by Google. The blog was even shut down for allegedly violating Google’s “Adult Content” policy, only to be reinstated a few hours later after I appealed the decision.

Strictly speaking, this is not a pornographic site; that is not my intention. From time to time, I post photos or short videos of naked guys showering, masturbating, or with erections. That is not the main focus of my content. Yet, I've just been informed by Google that 44 of the videos posted to my blog have been arbitrarily removed—all of them showing completely naked guys showering or masturbating. It’s hardly a big deal! Yet, every post containing a photo of a guy with an erection or masturbating earns me a threatening email from Google. Every single one!

I see other blogs hosted on Blogger featuring far more explicit, genuinely pornographic content—which I've no problem with. So why am I being singled out for this harassment? 

Every day, when I log into my blog, I wonder whether it's still online. I know Last3xit is just a trivial blog, one among many, but it's my blog, a small part of myself, a reflection of my existence.

We now live in a society in which restrictions on freedom and the control of speech have reached a level and scale I've never witnessed before. The obsession with controlling nudity, sexual pleasure, and pornography is making a major comeback. Naturally, Google—concerned about facing hefty financial penalties—is playing its part in this gradual stifling of freedom of expression and policing of sexual content and pleasure.

Consequently, I will no longer post content featuring guys with erections, masturbating, in the aftermath of masturbation, or in poses suggestive of homosexual intercourse. Google may well harass me again over photos showing full-frontal nudity. If that happens, nothing but the shell of my blog will remain, and it will meet an unnatural end, whether gradually or abruptly. Or purposefully.

"Le combat cessa faute de combattants."
—Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)

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