It’s been quite awhile since I’ve discussed the subject so once again we’re alerting everyone to some very serious types of prohibited content.

The first major issue I need to once again address is the fact that deviantART policy does not allow you to submit pornographic material in any form.

Judging by the things coming through the CEA desk there are quite a few people who are still ignorant of this prohibition.

FAQ#565 You prohibit the submission of pornographic material; what do you consider this to be? contains our explanation of what we consider pornography to be so please look it over and if you’ve submitted something listed there you may want to take it down before we do it for you. If the staff is forced to remove your pornographic material there is a very high chance that your account will be suspended or even banned indefinitely depending on what they find in your gallery.

We take this situation very seriously when we say it is strictly prohibited. Please assist us in keeping our galleries clean and free of this material by reporting anything which you discover while browsing.

In a similar vein we do not allow underage persons to be depicted in the nude, or in ‘sexy’ or ‘erotic’ situations. Once again we have a FAQ entry, FAQ249 What is the policy concerning images depicting minors?, which explains this extremely well.
This is an extremely strict policy and we will not hesitate to remove such underage nudity or demand legal documentation which proves your age.

As the FAQ states you do not have to be completely exposed for us to take some sort of action so do us all a favor and save until you are considered to be of legal age in the United States.

Also I must caution that any underage person’s who attempt to deliberately misrepresent a date of birth in any way in order to resubmit deleted nudity of themselves or their peers will be banned immediately. This sort of deception will not be tolerated.

A related issue concerns fan art of underage characters from popular children’s television series who are depicted nude or in an erotic or sexual situation. Our policies governing underage nudity do not differentiate between “real” and “fictional” persons so this particular theme of fan art is not allowed to be submitted here.

Previously this issue was presumed explained by FAQ#249, however due to recent confusions concerning the issue we have created a separate FAQ entry to clarify the issue;

FAQ#248 What is the policy concerning nude or erotic fan art?

The new FAQ now directly addresses areas of policy which we had formerly thought addressed by a ‘common sense’ interpretation of FAQ#249 but due to consistent confusion on the issue we have now provided a separate FAQ entry to explain this longstanding policy.

To briefly review this new FAQ entry here;

Fan art can be broken into two broad categories; that which concerns characters that are presented as adults in their original context, and that which concerns characters presented as underage minors or children in their original context.

Fan art concerning characters that are considered to be adults in their original context have no restrictions in regards to nudity or other provocative themes other than those already in place governing sexual or pornographic subject matter.

Fan art concerning characters that are considered underage minors or children in their original context are subjected to several restrictions which mirror the restrictions in place for photographic submissions.

The following is a listing of themes which are prohibited in regards to these underage characters;

1. Depicted without clothing, front view, back view, or side view, with genitalia and/or breasts visible or not.

2. Depicted in under garments or lingerie.

3. Depicted in an S&M or ‘Bondage’ situation.

4. Depicted in a sexual or 'alluring' pose (dressed or undressed).

5. Depicted in the possession of ‘adult’ sexual toys.

6. Depicted with transparent clothing, blurring of nude areas, or the use of “blots” or “Censored” wording or props to cover areas that are otherwise not clothed.

7. Depicted with "enhanced" breasts or genital areas.

8. Attempts to portray an underage or child character as an "adult" in order to avoid these restrictions will be subjected to close scrutiny by staff. Such claims will be considered void in any case where the staff deems that significant and telling changes of the original underage character design were not attempted or that such efforts were inadequate.


Any fan art submission found to depict any of these prohibited themes will be removed immediately and without notice.