pillowfort-io:

This post is to clarify Pillowfort’s position on sexually explicit
visual art, particularly art containing minors. We apologize for not
clarifying our position on this earlier; we have been working on
revising the ToS to address these issues, but an incident arose today
that necessitated us taking action on this matter, so it seems necessary
to put things in plain terms now.

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As of this statement, Pillowfort will not allow explicit
visual art of characters that appear to be underage. Now, due to the
inherently subjective nature of trying to determine the age of a
fictional character in a stylized medium, the “gray area” cases will be
up to the discretion of the moderator reviewing the content. Broadly, if
your characters are close to 18 and could plausibly or arguably be of
age based on appearance, that will be allowed. We are not going to comb
through the wiki of a particular fandom to try and find the canonical
age of a fictional character and then try to figure out if the character
in the art piece is supposed to be represented at their canonical age
or not. Similarly, many works of art contain sexual activity as a theme
of adolescence and coming-of-age– I’m sure you yourself can think of
many movies, shows, etc. you’ve seen that featured underage characters
in a sexual relationship, some even explicitly– and even if you wanted
to argue that art that explored adolescent sexuality was fine and it’s
‘just pornography’ that should be censured, we aren’t going to be the
arbiters of what is art vs. ‘merely’ pornography. Therefore, sexual
depictions of characters in later stages of adolescence may broadly be
considered ‘safe.’

However, any explicit or sexual art
of a character that appears to be physically pre-pubescent or barely
pubescent (i.e. not plausibly or arguably of age, or even close to it)
will be prohibited. We realize this decision may anger some people, but
we have devoted a considerable amount of thought to this decision and we
feel this is the best approach for our community.

Importantly,
we don’t want people to worry that this heralds a broader ban on
‘problematic’ content. When it comes to fictional depictions or
descriptions of divisive subjects such as incest, rape, abuse, etc., we
do not intend to restrict that content, for largely the same reasons as
discussed above with regards to ‘gray-area’ underage content. We
understand these subjects can be distressing for many, and we do request
that people posting content that is potentially upsetting tag such
posts with the relevant terms so that it can be avoided by those who
don’t wish to view such content. The only situation we foresee
penalizing the posting of this content would be a case already covered
in our ToS, where a bad-faith user appears to be intentionally spamming
completely unrelated tags or communities with violent or sexual content
with the intent or result of disrupting the usual functioning of that
tag or community.

We will update the ToS to reflect
these new guidelines soon. As always, if these new guidelines are
unsatisfactory to you and you want a refund for your PayPal payment to
us, you can email us at info@pillowfort.io and we will process your refund as soon as we can.

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