One of the many things I miss from the heyday of porn on Tumbler was a loose association of swingers, adventurers, exhibitionists, and amateur porn enthusiasts who shared pictures like the one above. I no longer remember whether the name “Good Wife Project” was a specific Tumblr, or a tag that was shared across a group of like-minded posters and sites. The common theme was point-of-view shots of grown-ass women, enthusiastic blowjobs, sticky faces, and posing/staging that didn’t look like commercial porn.

I did an awful lot of right-click-save-as slipshod curation in those days, but in hindsight, nothing like enough. And of course, I’d have been an awful lot better off focusing on crawling and capturing entire tumblrs. They didn’t usually have much metadata, but sometimes there was a little bit.

Am I not grateful for the crawling and capturing that the Internet Archive did? Of course. But it’s appalling how incomplete those crawls are, and how many images were not captured, especially in the earlier years. No shade; a crawl like that is an enormous, resource-expensive and somewhat adversarial undertaking. I prefer to celebrate what the Archive did capture rather than lament what they didn’t.

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