If you're looking for a porn fix, you're not going to find it on Vine.
The Twitter-owned app, which lets you create and share six-second video clips, just announced it has updated its rules and terms of service to prohibit pornographic and explicit sexual content. That includes "depictions of sex acts, nudity that is sexually provocative or in a sexual context, and graphic depictions of sexual arousal."
Vine said that a "very small percentage" of videos on its service contain this type of material.
"For more than 99 percent of our users, this doesn't really change anything," Vine wrote in a blog post. "For the rest: we don't have a problem with explicit sexual content on the Internet — we just prefer not to be the source of it."
So what, exactly, is okay, and not okay, to post? For starters, it's not alright to post videos of sex acts, whether alone or with another person. That includes videos showing the use of sex toys for sex acts, close ups of aroused genitals underneath clothing, sexually graphic art and animation, and "sexually provocative nudity," such as posts that focus on exposed genitalia or depict nudity in a sexual context or setting (like a strip club).
Meanwhile, if your post contains nudity for the sake of art, you should be fine. Vine said it's okay to post "depictions of nudity or partial nudity that are primarily documentary, educational or artistic in nature." Sexually suggestive posts are fine, just not sexually explicit ones.
So, for instance, it's fine to post a video of nude protestors, nude modeling in an art class, a mother breastfeeding her child, or clothed, sexually suggestive dancing.
Those who violate the policy may be suspended and only allowed back on after they have removed the offending posts. Repeated violations of this policy may result in permanent suspension. Meanwhile, if you come across explicit sexual content, you can report it by tapping the button with three dots at the bottom of the post and selecting the option Report this post.
Vine last year was slapped with a 17+ rating after many pornographic clips were posted to the service, one of which mistakenly landed at the top of the Editor's Picks due to "human error."
For more, check out PCMag's full review of Vine and the slideshow above of other racy apps banned by Apple.
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