What happens when sexual content online starts borrowing from extreme weight-loss communities? “Thigh gap” fetishization. Warning: explicit content.
The pro-ana/thinspo community could fill a dictionary with the code words and terms used in various social networks to discuss weight loss and aspirations of losing more and more weight.
But a new one, thigh gap, has crossed over from the relatively close-knit pro-anorexia community and is now being used by pornographic websites to categorize explicit material.
Here's a definition of a "thigh gap" from Urban Dictionary:
Via: urbandictionary.com
Pro-anorexia or "pro-ana" material still thrives on social networks like Tumblr and Pinterest, despite their bans of thinspirational (or "thinspo") content. A simple search reveals a pretty shocking amount of such material, easily indexable under the tag "thigh-gap" or "dat-gap." (WARNING: "Dat-gap" is extremely not safe for work.)
A quick look at the content indexed under Tumblr's "thigh-gap" tag:
Via: tumblr.com