Sexual Solicitation

Content that offers or asks for adult commercial services, such as requesting, offering or asking for rates for escort service and paid sexual fetish or domination services. (Content that recruits or offers other people for third-party commercial sex work is separately considered under the Human Exploitation policy).

Attempted coordination of or recruitment for, adult sexual activities, except when promoting an event or venue, including but not limited to:

• Filmed sexual activities.
• Pornographic activities, strip club shows, live sex performances or erotic dances.
• Sexual, erotic or tantric massages.

Explicit sexual solicitation by, including but not limited to the following, offering or asking for:

• Offering or asking for sex or sexual partners (including partners who share fetish or sexual interests).
• Sex chat or conversations.
• Nude photos/videos/imagery/sexual fetish items.
• Sexual slang terms.

We allow expressing desire for sexual activity, promoting sex education, discussing sexual practices or experiences, or offering classes or programs that teach techniques or discuss sex.

Content that is implicitly or indirectly offering or asking for sexual solicitation and meets both of the following criteria. If both criteria are not met, it is not deemed to be violating. For example, if content is a hand-drawn image depicting sexual activity but does not ask or offer sexual solicitation, it is not violating:

• Criteria 1: Offer or ask
  • Content that implicitly or indirectly (typically through providing a method of contact) offers or asks for sexual solicitation.
• Criteria 2: Suggestive Elements
  • Content that makes the aforementioned offer or ask using one or more of the following sexually suggestive elements:
    • Regional sexualized slang,
    • Mentions or depictions of sexual activity such as sexual roles, sex positions, fetish scenarios, state of arousal, act of sexual intercourse or activity (e.g. sexual penetration or self-pleasuring), commonly sexual emojis
    • Including content (hand drawn, digital or real-world art) that depicts sexual activity as defined in Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity policy
    • Poses,
    • Audio of sexual activity or other content that violates the Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity policy

An offer or ask for pornographic material (including, but not limited to, sharing of links to external pornographic websites)

Sexually-explicit language that goes into graphic detail beyond mere reference to:

• A state of sexual arousal (e.g wetness or erection) or
• An act of sexual intercourse (e.g sexual penetration, self-pleasuring or exercising fetish scenarios).
• Except for content shared in a humorous, satirical, or educational context, as a sexual metaphor or as sexual cursing.

• 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 satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.