Rules Tweaks

Enchantress

Hi everyone,

Okay….I hate to have to do this BUT…. in the spirit of protecting the site, and keeping the time the moderators and admins have to spend reviewing posts and uploads, we are making an addition to the rules.

@ZipTiesThatBind already added this to the rules list, but to bring it front and center I will reiterate - We will not allow media posts depicting individuals that even appear close to the age of majority (for our purposes it is 18 years of age). This means no “barely legal”, no “teen”, no images that are questionable at all.

First and foremost we are not an image sharing site. We exist to provide a place for those interested in kink, BDSM and non-consensual consent-type role play and fantasy. Porn is everywhere and you can search for and view those images elsewhere. We cannot expose our site to the liability.
I personally will be going through the images posted on all pre-existing media threads and pruning out images that are questionable. This is not meant as a personal accusation to anyone; appearance and age judgement is quite subjective so I’ll be removing anything that makes me even pause to think about it.
As a personal note - I don’t have tons of free time so this will take a while. If any member sees an image post that they feel warrants removal, please feel free to hit the “flag post” button to bring it to our attention quicker.

DarkArchon1980

Enchantress Is it a tweak as much as it’s an amendment?

darklord

Fully agree with the underage. But is it ok for regular images??

DarkArchon1980

darklord As long as there is no question about the models age, there’s no problem.

LtBroccoli

DarkArchon1980 So for example if I’m writing a story and a character is described as a busty, short redhead with brown eyes and I use a pic of a model or celebrity known to be of age (in this case Francesca Capaldi), then that would be okay? And to be on the safe side, let’s say I grab a pic from her Instagram where the time stamp is clearly where she’s old enough.

I apologize if this sounds too rules-lawyery. I have a story I’m working on that I’ve written in screenplay format and the “actresses” cast to play the characters are all old enough to be here. I don’t use pics often, but was thinking of doing a little casting guide for that story.

ZipTiesThatBind

LtBroccoli That would unambiguously be in the clear.

DarkArchon1980

LtBroccoli If Francesca Capaldi is the pic you’re using, she’ll be 20 in a few weeks (of typing this) so that’ll be fine. Basically what @ZipTiesThatBind said.

Enchantress

Yes, as Archon said, in fiction you are clearly stating the character is of age…. in a photo it is impossible to say "oh that girl is clearly above or below a certain age (in specific examples of course). That’s the issue at hand that I’m trying to get around.

Using an image of a well known public figure or porn star whose age is known is also not an issue. It’s just the random pics of unknowns where we can’t prove anything one way or the other.

Thanks for asking for clarification. Y’all are much appreciated 😘

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HistBuff

Well, I’m a bit late in the “party”.

In light of this thread, I went over my most recent stories and did remove a couple of pics. In “Snowlight In Vermount”, I researched the picture on image google and found she was a 16-year-old model who was posing for Life magazine in 1949. I can’t use that pic even though she’s fully clothed. Just let me know if there’s more leeway with clothed pictures since this is what I almost always use in my stories.

In The Last Command, I removed the pics for Ann. This is actress Margaret O’Brian who starred at 12 in The Little Women in 1949. I just wasn’t sure whether that picture was in the clear or not (unable to find the year it was taken).

And last, one example of a picture where the model looks like she could be 16-17, but this is clearly not the case since the actress is well known and famous for looking incredibly young. Emma Watson at 28 when she played Meg March in Little Women, and this makes the picture controversial because in the famous story, Meg the elder sister is 16 in 1861. In other words, Emma Watson is portraying a 16-year-old girl, and she does it amazingly well. I know this first-hand since my own wife looked this young at 28 (and I got sometimes stared at in restaurants although we’re just 4 years apart). I’ve removed this picture as well since it is depicting a minor person.

DarkArchon1980

HistBuff Thank you for being proactive. I think and @ZipTiesThatBind and @Enchantress can correct me but if the actress in this case, Emma Watson, isn’t underage, there’s no problem even if she’s portraying a younger character.