Social Media Best Practices

These are general suggestions for posting kink art on mainstream social media platforms with strict content guidelines. Please note this advice is not fool-proof and content policies can change at any time.

Ultimately, you cannot control the content guidelines of a third-party platform. Creating a personal site to host your artwork is the best way to preserve it online. Own as much of the infrastructure as you can.

• Platform Agnostic

  When describing your work, whether in a social media post, shop description, or in content or category tags, do not use keywords that describe hardcore kinks. This prevents automated moderation systems from flagging your work as inappropiate. Using alternative words is recommended, and certain platforms will also require the word "fantasy" to be used to indicate it is fictional.

  Below is a list of over 200 banned keywords collected from OnlyFans, iWantClips, Smashwords and various other sites we recommend you avoid:

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  Abduct | Adult Baby | Animal | Asphyxia | Ballbusting | Bait | Bareback | Blackmail | Beastiality | Bestiality | Bleeding | Blood | Bloodplay | Blacked | Brainwash | Bukkake | Caned | Caning | CBT | Cashapp | Cannibal | Captive | Cervix | Comatose | Coma | Coerce | Child | Choke | Chloroform | Cycle | CP | Consent | Drink | Drunk | Drugged | Diapers | Doze | Dog | Eleven | Entrance | Escort | Enema | Fansly | Fuckfan | Fanfuck | Fetal | Fecal | Foetal | Fist | Fisting | Farm | Flogging | Force | Furry | Forced Bi | Fifteen | Firearms | Gaping | Golden | Gunplay | Gangbang | Hardsports | Hypno | Hooker | Inbreed | Incapacitation | Incest | Intox | Jail | Jailbait | Kidnap | Knocked | Knock | Lactate | Lolicon | Lolita | Menstruate | Menstrua | Medical play | Mind Control | Molest | Mutilate | Necrophilia | Pedo | Pedophile | Pedophilia | Prostituted | Paralyze | Pee | Peeplay | Poo | Piss | Poop | Pegging | Paddling | Paypal | Passed out | Prostitution | Prostitute | Preteen | Rape | Rapist | Restricted | Snuff | Showers | Shota | Strangle | Suffocate | Teen | Toilet | Torture | Slave | Scat | Smegma | Strangulation | Torturing | Tortured | Trance | Twelve | Unconscious | Unwilling | Underage | Urine | Vomit | Venmo | Whipped | Whipping | Watersports | Young | Zoophilia

• Platform Agnostic

  Post cropped or censored images on platforms with strict content guidelines and link to the full uncensored image somewhere on your site.

• Platform Agnostic

  Platforms more commonly known to host adult and/or LBGTQIA+ content are at the greatest risk of being targeted by policy changes or anti-pornography organizations worldwide. Additionally, recent age verification policies frequently target sites with a certain percentage of adult work. If it is unavoidable to post on these platforms, always have accounts on different platforms and mirror your content off-site.

• Debanking

  Do not mention adult content or activities in payment processor invoices, whether purchasing or selling adult content.

Print Best Practices

Printing and selling adult media like books, zines, comics, doujin and artbooks can help preserve your work longterm because it is much harder to destroy physical copies once they are distributed.

Below are general tips for printing, publishing, or physical distribution of adult media.

• Printing

  There are kink-friendly printers that will print fictional works containing hardcore kink content like BDSM, age gaps, feral kink and more. Specific printers will not be listed to protect their identities, but you can always cold-email printers and ask them what level of fictional content they're comfortable printing. A reputable printer will gladly tell you, and sometimes ask for an example spread so they can make a better informed decision.

• Printing

  Most physical printers are more open to fictional depictions of hardcore kinks than payment processors are. The only limit the webmaster has consistently found is the content has to be hand-drawn or written (not photography or AI generated images), and to have indicated in plain language that all characters depicted are over 18.

• Printing

  Canadian and Chinese-based printers in general are a lot stricter on what fictional kinks can be printed. US and Taiwanese printers are less so.

Personal Site Best Practices

People will often advise kink artists to create their own website because the amount of content restrictions decreases rapidly. While this will take care of the vast majority of issues most erotic artists face, keep in mind that site hosts are still beholden to the legal regulations of the country the servers are located in. This can be an issue for some hardcore fictional work that is legally complex like lolisho. However, there are some ways you can protect your personal site if you are hosting hardcore work.

This should not be taken as legal advice so please do your own research.

• Personal Site

  Creating an age gate where viewers have to verify that they are 18 or older to access your website protects both yourself and underage users. At minimum, create a page that warns the user there is adult content on your site and asks them to confirm that they are 18 years or older. This also alleviates the responsibility of protecting them from content they are not intended to view.

• Personal Site

  For additional security, create a paywall system for the whole site. Not only are minors are less likely to have bank cards, many payment processors like PayPal also require users to be 18 years or older to use their services. This extra step will also prevent bad actors from accessing your site.

• Personal Site

  An easy way to strengthen a legal case against obscenity charges is to have a detailed artist's statement on your website. This makes it more obvious to the that the work has artistic intention and merit. "I don't like authority" or similar tongue-in-cheek responses are not a statement of artistic intention and merit.

• Personal Site

  For high-risk artists or publishers, it might be worth consulting with a state lawyer to request an opinion letter. This is where the lawyer reviews your work and writes a letter pre-emptively arguing that it is not obscene in the event that charges are brought against you.

• Hosting

  If somebody complains about the content on your site without threatening legal action, we strongly suggest you ignore them. However, if they do threaten legal action, reach out to a lawyer immediately. Lawyers familiar with digital speech rights are listed on this page. If for any reason you need a neutral boilerplate response, below is an example you can reference:

We appreciate your concerns and have reviewed your complaint. However, this type of content does not violate our Terms of Service, and therefore we will not be taking any action.

• Hosting

  Doing business with third-party hardcore kink content outside of personal commissions (or personal artisic work) is exceptionally fraught, and outside this site's ability to comment on. However, there has been discussion that using a token approach instead of direct payments on a business level is a way to bypass payment processor's content restrictions. Beyond this, please do your own research.