Per a recent announcement from the team at Harriet Sugarcookie, the men’s lifestyle and now former porn site Sugarcookie.com has removed all its adult content due to “censorship by governments and Silicon Valley giants.”
In her blog post, “No more porn on Sugarcookie.com,” site founder Harriet Sugarcookie informed fans that she is removing all the porn from Sugarcookie.com. Luckily, fans of Sugarcookie’s pornographic content will still be able to access her videos at a new, dedicated adults-only site, Sugarcookie.xxx.
Sugarcookie explained the reasons for the split, emphasizing how her non-adult content, which includes sexual health advice, male grooming and relationship advice, doesn’t appear in Google searches due to Sugarcookie.com being labeled an adult site.
“Most articles at Sugarcookie.com are completely unrelated to pornography,” said Sugarcookie. “We don’t believe it’s fair for those articles to be penalized because of how Google has categorized our site.”
According to Sugarcookie, it’s not just Google censoring her content. She’s had three YouTube channels, two Facebook pages and an Instagram account deleted.
Sugarcookie said, “Currently we get social media accounts deleted at random because they think we’re sharing links to pornography. We’re not. We’re asking people why their balls itch?”
Sugarcookie.com is also subject to credit card companies’ censorship rules — rules that even govern what text can appear on a site.
As an example, “If we write an article explaining the origins of tentacle porn in hentai, it’s classified as promoting beastiality — rather than an informative discussion about art — and we run the risk have having payment processing stopped on our site,” Sugarcookie shared.
Sugarcookie said that splitting her content over two sites is ultimately a good thing. “It means we are free to write about whatever we like on Sugarcookie.com and way more people will see our sex-positive message. Plus, you will never feel embarrassed browsing at work again,” she said.
Fans of adult content on Sugarcookie.xxx will also benefit from the split. “We optimized the xxx site for adult content, improved video streaming and launched the site with a new dark theme so it’s more comfortable to browse at night… if you know what I mean?” she asked cheekily.
We appreciate Sugarcookie’s positive attitude and proactive spin on what certainly was a lot of work and stress. Hopefully, her sex-positive message does garner a wider reach and her sexy content connects with its intended audience. It’s still okay to be pissed about this though and call out what it ultimately is: sex work, sex media and sex worker discrimination.
