It is pretty much given that almost all visually driven social media platforms have a dark side to them. Therefore, why should Pinterest be any exception? Beneath amazing and eye-popping visual ideas covering diverse categories hides a murky and insidious world of pornographic and sexually explicat images. Officially, this dark world is referred by a more civilized term ‘NSFW.’ If you’re curious to know more about NSFW then this blog post is just for you. This blog post navigates through some sensitive yet important topics regarding NSFW, which will be of great help especially for those who have great interest in art or regularly deal in erotic images for professional reasons.
What really is NSFW Content on Pinterest?
NSFW content on Pinterest simply refers to any image or images that contain any form of nudity or pornography, often deemed as adult content. By the way, NSFW stands for ‘not safe for work.’ Although Pinterest considers any content ideas supporting misinformation or unethical behaviour as unsafe and harmful, such non-adult content does not fall under NSFW category. Therefore, content falling under NSFW category strictly and only deals with pornographic or sexually explicit images.
What does platform’s Community Guidelines say about NSFW content?
Expectedly, it does not allow users to upload and post sexually explicit images or any visual content that passes off as adult content. However, for the sake of artistic freedom among other reasons, it allows some form of nudity.
Here’s what is unacceptable
- Visual content that promotes only nudity, not offering any artistic or any other value.
- Content that tries to sexually arouse, even if the people are partially or fully clothed.
- Graphic representation of sexual activity in imagery or text.
- Revenge porn. Revenge porn is classified as posting or publishing sexually explicit image/s of any person or individual without obtaining his or her proper consent.
- Any content that promotes adult services like trafficking, sex cam and, escort services.
Here’s what’s acceptable
- Nudity in paintings and scriptures is allowed.
- Nudity that has scientific and historical context is permitted.
- Content about breastfeeding and mastectomies is not prohibited.
- Erotic content that offers some form of artistic value or is deemed useful for users.
How rampant NSFW content is on Pinterest today?
As compared to the past, the presence of adult content, especially hardcore phonographic images & videos, has been greatly reduced. This is largely thanks to more strict moderation policy along with the integration of cutting-edge technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). ML and AI technologies greatly help the platform’s algorithm in efficiently identifying content that violates its community guidelines.
However, it must be noted that for any public community platform that thrives on user generated-content, controlling adult content with 100% success is nearly impossible. Many a time, therefore, sexually explicit content manages to slip through the moderation and gets published.
Hence NSFW content can still be accessed, albeit it is not as easily accessible as it was in the past.
How can one access adult content on Pinterest?
Owing to its strict moderation, today accessing adult content has obviously become immensely challenging. However, you can easily circumvent or overcome these challenges by using some simple tips and tricks.
- Use synonymous terms and less controversial keywords: Don’t use blatant and controversial search terms like ‘nudity’ and ‘porn.’ Instead use less controversial and synonymous terms in search lik ‘sensual art ‘artistic body’ or ‘sensual painting.’ As much as possible, you must hesitate from using provocative terms.
- Use Google search: By typing keywords like ‘Pinterest NSFW’ or ‘Pinterest adult content’ on Google, you can get access to accounts or boards dedicated to adult content. More often than not this trick works.
- Follow Boards that heavily uses sensual content: One of the easiest ways is to identify and follow boards that regularly post sensual and erotic images. Regularly following such boards will increase the likelihood of similar content appearing on your main content feed.
- Explore categories that naturally align with erotic content: Due to intricate nature, some categories like photography, fashion and art are more seamlessly integrated with erotic images. Therefore, it makes sense to look for sensual content in these categories rather than categories that don’t naturally align. Simply type the category name followed or preceded with terms like ‘sensual’ or ‘erotic.’
For example: erotic fashion or sensual painting.
- Use hashtags: Even though Pinterest does not depend overwhelmingly on hashtags, finding adult content through hashtags is still possible. Use hashtags like #sensualphotography #sensualart #eroticpaintings for finding pins related to these themes.
What type of adult content is commonly found on Pinterest?
While you can find variety of adult content, certain types of adult content are more commonly found.
- Artistic Nude or sensual art: Any kind of nudity associated with popular art form like painting or sculpture are very easily and commonly found on Pinterest. This is primarily because as part of its official policy, it openly accepts images and photos promoting sensual art.
- Industry specific adult content: You can easily find industry specific adult content. For example, food porn, fitness porn, home décor porn and many more. However, as recommended earlier, hesitate from using proactive terms like ‘porn’ while searching for industry specific adult content. Instead use the term sensual or erotic.
- Mild provocative content: Mild provocative content is pretty commonly found in fashion and other categories like fitness. Individual wearing revealing costumes or exhibiting sexually provocative gestures are usually passed off as mild provocative content.
- Adult Humor and Memes: Sexual jokes and memes including sexual innuendo or phrases are also pretty easily found. These adult jokes usually contain bold and sexually provocative graphic illustrations or images.
Top alternatives for Pinterest NSFW
There are more than enough alternatives if you are frustrated with Pinterest’s stringent policy as well as lack of diversity in NSFW content. These platforms are known for having more liberal and open policy towards NSFW content.
- Twitter.
- Reddit.
- FetLife.
- Dribbble.
Conclusion:
As much as Pinterest is trying hard to make its platform 100% safe and family friendly, NSFW content continues to have substantial presence on the platform. However, what needs to be appreciated is that today (unlike in the past) accessing or finding hardcore porn images or videos has become comparatively very tough (if not impossible). We would request all the users kindly adhere to Pinterest’s community guidelines while posting or viewing NSFW content. As a responsible social media user, always be prompt in reporting account that blatantly promotes pornographic images and videos.