This is a list of sites, services, or tools that ban pornographic or sexual content in any medium (writing, digital/physical illustration, photography, film, or games). While these sites may be usable via a lack of realtime moderation or lax enforcement, you should be extremely causious about becoming dependant on any of these companies.
For a list of companies, sites, and services that have some allowance for porn, check out "Yes Porn Allowed".
Any company marked with 🚨 also has language that may ban queer media from the platform regardless of sexual content.
This list is very much US centric. I am an American artist and game dev. As such, this list contains either US or Global polocies. If these sites have a different stance for your country, please let me know here or on twitter (@QwaxiLixard). Moreover, I cannot exam every site that exist, so this list will always be non-exhaustive. If there is any site you feel should be added, feel free to send me a message.
However, this list is not intended to include sites or services that make clear that sexual content is banned (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Club Panguine, etc). This is only for services that would seem to have no reason to include such a ban. Furthermore, sites that ban "obscene" or "objectionable" content are not include. Most all sites include that as a way to "cover their ass". While those clauses are a risk, this list focuses on explicit bans.
Finally, I'm only human and I'm not a lawyer. So, there maybe some errors or misinterpretation of the "No Porn" clause.
This is a list of companies that ban pornographic content from all their services.
| Company | Found In | Section | Comment | Affected Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlassian | Acceptable Use Policy | Inappropriate Content | Bitbucket and Trello | |
| Doist | Terms of Service | 4 User Content Representation and Warranties | Todoist and Twist | |
| Abuse Program Polices and Enforcement | Sexually Explicit Material Prohibited products and services |
Artistic Purposes™ is allowed, but assume it is corporate art covered in corporate bleach. Additionally, note that it says "distribute". Storage is likely okay for the time being. Furthermore, Google has multiple anti-porn clauses spread about their various terms of services, for this reason I mark all of Google as unsafe. | Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and new Sites. | |
| Hetzner 🚨 | Terms and Conditions | Terms and Conditions | Avoid even if you are not hosting sexual content. Their TOS includes the homophobic dogwhistle of "The Customer is obligated not to publish any content that [...] could seriously endanger the morals of children or young people [...]". Avoid at all cost. | |
| Microsoft | Services Agreement | 3. Code of Conduct | Office 365, One Drive, Outlook, and Azure. |
These are sites and services that facilitate the transfer of money between individuals.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adyen | Prohibited and Restricted Products & Services | Section 2, subection Adult | Adult products are allowed except for fetish products. What "fetish" means is not defined. |
| Buy Me a Coffee | Prohibited and Restricted Content | Sexual content | "Any and every form of adult content related to nudity, sexual acts, and pornography including literature, imagery, videos, and links to external sites or content containing such material." |
| Cash App | Terms of Service Cash For Business Payments Terms |
Section V, subsection 1, Your Content Section 4, Unsupported Industries |
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| GoCardless | Restricted Activities | Page One | |
| Google Pay | Google Pay Policies for Businesses | Prohbited products and services | |
| JotForm | Terms of Use | 2. Limitations on User of the Services | |
| Ko-Fi | Terms and Conditions of Use | Acceptable Use for Creators | A rather disappointing one to include on this list given Ko-Fi's user friendliness and original openness to NSFW artist |
| Mollie | User agreement | Section 4: YOUR OBLICATIONS, Article 4.1. Prohibited Activities | Primarily used in NL, but also operates internationally |
| Payhip | Terms of Use | Your rights, warranties and obligations | |
| Payoneer | Terms and Conditions for the Payoneer US Payment Services | 5. Prohbited Use of the service | Only accesible after signing up. A rather dubious way of implementing that Payoneer. |
| PeachPay | Terms and Conditions | Account Terms, Bullet 7 | See Stripe |
| Square | General Terms of Service | Section 5, Your Content | |
| Stripe | Restricted Businesses | IP Infringement, regulated or illegal products and services | |
| Telegram Bot Payments API | Bot Payment API | What can my bot sell? | This restriction comes from Stripe. Their polocy renders Telegram's BPAPI unusuable for NSFW creators. |
| Venmo (See Comment) |
User Agreement | Content Posted by Users | This is actually a service made by PayPal. It's less of a service and more an alternative interface into PayPal. However, their User Agreement more directly restricts sexual content in messages attached to payments. Getting banned here will likely result in a PayPal ban. They are extremely hostile. |
| Wise | Acceptable Use Policy | 1.2.1 Regulated or illegal products and services | |
| Wix Payment | Wix Payments: Prohibited Products and Services | Section Prohibited Products or Services, Subsection Adult | See Adyen and Stripe |
| Zelle | User Service Agreement | Prohibited Uses |
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comradery | Terms of Service | User Generated Contributions Part 6 | Unable to support sexual/erotic/adult content do to Stripe's requirments. A high risk payment processor may place too much financial burden on the work co-op. |
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Coment |
|---|---|---|---|
| It's well known and I'm too lazy to look through their TOS. | N/A | No Seriously. Just don't. Posting your porn on a telephone pole is a better idea. | |
| See Facebook | |||
| Threads | Still Facebook | ||
| Tumblr | Community Guidlines | Sexually Explicit Material | For fuck sakes people, stop saying they allow porn. That's fucking wrong. It's never coming back. |
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game Jolt | Site Guidelines | Adult Content | Porn has been banned after recieving VC funding to build a "social media app for gamers" targint children between 13-16. |
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gumroad | Adult content on Gumroad | What is sexually explicit? | The noose continues to tighten. |
| WooCommerce | Wordpress User Guidelines | Pornography | Covered by the same guidelines as Automattic's other product Word Press |
Companies that specialize in hosting images.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imgur | Terms of Service | Stuff not to do | Been meaning to update this ages ago. But, I totally called it. |
These are sites and services that help automate sending emails to customers and fans.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| MailChimp | Acceptable Use Policy | Prohibited Content |
These are sites and services that facilitate the hosting of source code repositories for developers.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Acceptable Use Policies | Content Restrictions | They note that sexual content is allowed if it is Artistic™. No clarification is given on, so assume something doused in corporate bleach. |
| Bitbucket | See Atlassian | ||
| Source Forge | Terms of Use Agrement | 7. SourceForge.net Submissions/Content | |
| Sourcehut | Terms of Service | Permissible Use | While sourcehut themselves ban sexually explicit content, you are free to self host their software. |
These are sites and services that let you organize your task, notes, or design plans.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evernote (Shared/Public) | User Guidelines | You Won’t Use Shared or Public Notebooks to Post Objectionable Content | This restriction only exist for public notes. Should be fine for private organization |
| GitBook | Terms of Service | C.2. Content Restrictions | |
| Notion | Pernsonal Use Terms of Service | 2. Restrictions on Your Use of the Service | |
| Todoist | See Doist | ||
| Trello | See Atlassian | This one is a bit scary because a lot of artist rely on this one for commissions. | |
| World Anvil | Terms of Service | 18. Conduct |
These are sites and services that let individuals or groups communicate with others or their members.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guilded | Terms of Use | User Submissions | Can't escape Discord Crypto that easily. |
| Outlook | See Microsoft | I'm kinda shocked at this one | |
| Twist | See Doist |
These are sites and services that provide web-based ability to back up files and data.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Drive | See Google | This restriction only applies to shared folders and files. | |
| One Drive | See Microsoft |
These are sites and services that provide cloud-based writing tools for colaboration, sharing, or storage.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft | Acceptable Use Policy | Adult-Oriented Content | |
| Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides | See Google | ||
| Microsoft Office (Cloud Features Only) | See Microsoft | Offline Microsoft office is probably safe. They can't control your computer. |
These are sites and services that enable building cloud based applications, servicers, or facilitate hosting of websites.
| Company/Product | Found In | Section | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | See Microsoft | I believe they are the only effected cloud platform. | |
| Carrd | Terms of Service | Section 5 User Content, Subsection C | |
| Weebly | Terms of Service | Content guidelines | |
| WordPress | Policies & Safety | User Guidelines | |
| Straw.Page | Asked Owner | See #25 |