Community Standards 
for Nudity or Sexual Activity

Showing someone's genitals or buttocks

Showing or implying sexual activity

Showing female nipples, except to talk about breast feeding, the moments after giving birth, health or an act of protest

 

Our Nudity Policies have become more nuanced over time. We understand that nudity can be shared for a variety of reasons, including as a form of protest, to raise awareness about a cause or for educational or medical reasons.

 

Your freedom of expression: We want you to share freely with others. We only remove things, or restrict people to keep the community respectful and safe.

 

Policy rationale: We restrict the display of nudity or sexual activity because some people in our community may be sensitive to this type of content. In addition, we default to removing sexual imagery to prevent the sharing of non-consensual or underage content.

 

Declaration and Permitted Purposes: Restrictions on the display of sexual activity also apply to digitally created content unless it is posted for educational, humorous or satirical purposes.

 

Our Nudity Policies have become more nuanced over time. We understand that nudity can be shared for a variety of reasons, including as a form of protest, to raise awareness about a cause or for educational or medical reasons.

 

Where such intent is clear, we make allowances for the content. For example, while we restrict some images of female breasts that include the nipple, we allow other images, including those depicting acts of protest, women actively engaged in breast-feeding and photos of post-mastectomy scarring.

 

For images depicting visible genitalia or the anus in the context of birth and after-birth moments or health-related situations, member “must” include a Spoiler Warning (Spoiler) label so that other Members are aware that the content may are about to open and see may be sensitive. We also allow photographs of paintings, sculptures and other art that depicts nude figures.

 

We do not allow:

 

1. Imagery of adult nudity, if it depicts: Sex in any variation.

   1. Visible genitalia except in medical or health context (for example, birth-giving and after-birth moments, gender confirmation surgery, examination for cancer or other diseases)

   2. Visible anuses and/or fully nude close-ups of buttocks unless photo shopped on a public figure.

   3. Uncovered female nipples, except in the context of breastfeeding, mastectomy, medical or health context (for example, birth-giving and after-birth moments, gender confirmation surgery, examination for cancer or other diseases) or an act of protest

   4. Note that we allow all of the above in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity.

 

1. Imagery of adult sexual activity, including:

   1. Explicit sexual activity and stimulation

      1. Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, as indicated by a person's mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.

      2. Explicit stimulation of a person's genitals or anus, as indicated by stimulation, or the insertion of sex toys into the person's genitals or anus, when the contact with the genitals or anus is directly visible

   2. Implicit sexual activity and stimulation, except in medical, health or sexual wellness contexts; promotional content; and recognised fictional images or with indicators of fiction:

      1. Implicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, as indicated by a person's mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when the genitals or anus and/or the entry or contact is not directly visible

      2. Implicit stimulation of a person's genitals or anus, as indicated by stimulation, or the placement of sex toys above or insertion of sex toys into the person's genitals or anus, when the genitals or anus, stimulation, placement and/or insertion is not directly visible

   3. Other sexual activities, except in medical or health context, promotional content, and recognised fictional images or with indicators of fiction:

      1. Erections

      2. Presence of by-products of sexual activity

      3. Sex toys placed upon or inserted into mouth

      4. Stimulation of visible human nipples

      5. Squeezing female breasts, defined as a grabbing motion with curved fingers that shows both marks and clear shape change of the breasts. We allow squeezing in breastfeeding contexts.

 

1. Imagery depicting fetish that involves:

   1. Acts that are likely to lead to the death of a person or animal

   2. Dismemberment

   3. Cannibalism

   4. Feces, urine, spit, snot, menstruation or vomit

   5. Bestiality

   6. Incest

 

1. Digital imagery of adult sexual activity, except when posted in the context of medical awareness, scientific discourse or discussion of sexual health, or when it meets one of the criteria below and viewing is limited to adults aged 18 or older.

1. Extended audio of sexual activity

 

For the following content, we include a label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:

 

1. Imagery of visible adult male and female genitalia, fully nude close-ups of buttocks or visible anuses, or what would otherwise qualify as implicit/other sexual activity or stimulation, when shared in medical or health context. This can include, for example:

2. Birth-giving and after-birth-giving moments

3. Gender confirmation surgery

4. Self-examination for cancer or other disease

5. Imagery of implicit sexual activity or stimulation in sexual wellness context

 

For the following content, we limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older:

 

1. Real-world art, where

2. Imagery depicts implicit, explicit or other sexual activity or stimulation

3. Imagery depicts bestiality, provided that it is shared neutrally or in condemnation and the people or animals depicted are not real.

4. Implicit adult sexual activity in advertisements, recognised fictional images or with indicators of fiction.

5. Digital imagery and real-world art of adult sexual activity, where:

6. The sexual activity or stimulation isn't explicit and is not a fetish as specified above

7. The content was posted in a satirical or humorous context

8. Only body shapes or contours are visible

 

For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:

 

1. In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirised or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticise them.

 

We have an option to report, whether it's on a post, a comment, a story, a message or something else.

 

We help people report things that they don't think should be on our platform.

 

We ask people to tell us more about what's wrong. This helps us send the report to the right place.

 

Make sure that the details are correct before you click Submit. It's important that the problem selected truly reflects what was posted.

 

After these steps, we submit the report. We also lay out what people should expect next.

 

We remove things if they go against our Community Standards, but you can also unfollow, block or unfriend to avoid seeing posts in future.

 

How we made this decision: Our technology found your content doesn't follow our Community Standards. As a result, our technology took action.

 

We use the same rules around the world for everyone.

Our technology and teams work in many languages to make sure our rules are applied