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How To Avoid Nudity and Sexualized Content Guide

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This guide explains how US sellers and creators can avoid nudity or sexualized content in product listings and livestreams by using safer framing, coverage, language, and demonstrations. Content that violates the standards may be removed and can lead to penalties, including temporary restrictions or account suspension.

Key points

  • Use the same decision framework for listings and livestreams.
  • Check for nudity, body-area exposure, sheer clothing, and deliberate concealment.
  • Watch for sexualized gestures, poses, suggestive behavior, and simulated sexual activity.
  • Keep product demos focused on the product, not the body.
  • Use suitable camera angles and avoid close-ups that emphasize private areas.
  • Cover more than half of the breast area.
  • Fully cover the intergluteal cleft.
  • Use mannequins, flat-lay shots, or torso props for revealing items.
  • Use neutral, informative language and avoid suggestive wording.
  • For intimate hygiene products, use clear educational language about function and benefits.
  • For shapewear, emphasize comfort, material quality, and everyday wear support.
  • Avoid framing private areas and avoid kneeling, lying down, leg-spreading, or stripping poses.

Say / show

  • Focus on fabric, comfort, fit, stretch, and design.
  • Use practical use cases like daily wear, layering, and comfort.
  • Use a neutral, informative tone.
  • Use clear, educational language for intimate hygiene products.
  • Describe shapewear in terms of comfort, material quality, and everyday wear support.
  • Use mannequins, flat-lay shots, or torso props for revealing items.
  • Pair skin-tone or tight items with additional clothing when needed.
  • For stockings or similar items, focus on material and texture and pair with shorts or skirts.

Do not say / show

  • Do not use camera angles that emphasize body parts.
  • Do not use breast close-ups that take up most of the screen.
  • Do not use buttock close-ups that dominate the majority of the frame.
  • Do not use suggestive language.
  • Do not use sexualized gestures, poses, or suggestive behavior.
  • Do not use sexual themes or suggestive context.
  • Do not frame private areas.
  • Do not use kneeling, lying down, leg-spreading, or stripping poses.

Violation risks

  • Content may be removed.
  • Account penalties may apply.
  • Temporary restrictions may apply.
  • Account suspension may occur.

Who it affects

  • US sellers
  • Creators
  • Product listings
  • Livestreams

Source notes

  • Verify against the TikTok source before acting, and review the linked Prohibited Content for Platform Safety policy for related requirements, penalties, and appeal information.

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Guide to Avoiding Nudity and Sexualized Content

This guide helps US sellers and creators present products safely in product listings and livestreams. You will learn how to recognize content that may fall under Nudity and Sexual Activities (NSA) standards. You will also learn how to keep the focus on your product through suitable coverage, framing, language, and demonstrations.In this guide, you will learn how to:
  • Use a consistent decision framework across listings and livestreams
  • Apply category-specific checks for nudity, body-area exposure, sheer clothing, and deliberate concealment
  • Identify sexualized behavior, suggestive context, and simulations of sexual activity
  • Review framing, product demonstrations, and adult-platform references under the relevant rule
  • Choose safer product-demonstration formats, coverage, and language
Content that violates these standards may be removed and may lead to account penalties, including temporary restrictions or account suspension. Review the Prohibited Content for Platform Safety policy for related requirements, penalties, and appeal information.

What to Avoid

This section provides actionable tips to help you create rule-following content that keeps the focus on your products.

Avoid Nudity or Implied Nudity

What to AvoidExamples
Female breast nudity or implied nudity — Full or significant exposure of the female breast, including visible outlines or imagery that suggests nudity
  • Clothing that creates a protruding or sharply defined nipple outline
  • Significant exposure of the breast area
  • Implied nudity created through blurring, pixelation, or strategic object placement
Female genital nudity or implied nudity — Full or significant exposure of the female genital area, including the pubic mound, visible outlines, or imagery that suggests nudity
  • A clearly visible vulva outline through tight clothing
  • Significant exposure of the pubic area
  • Implied nudity created through blurring, pixelation, or strategic object placement
Male genital nudity or implied nudity — Full or significant exposure of the male genital area, including visible outlines, or imagery that suggests nudity
  • Tight clothing that creates a clearly visible erection outline or an overly pronounced genital bulge
  • Implied nudity created through blurring, pixelation, or strategic object placement
Butt crack or side-butt exposure — Any skin showing between the butt cheeks (crack) or the side/lower portions of the buttocks while wearing clothing.
  • Clothing or pose that exposes the butt crack
  • Clothing or pose that exposes the side or lower portion of the buttocks
String-style bottoms — Clothing like thongs, G-strings, or string bikinis where only thin straps or strings wrap around the waist, leaving the buttocks almost entirely uncovered.
  • A thong-style bottom with minimal rear coverage
  • A string bikini bottom that leaves the buttocks almost entirely uncovered

Avoid Sexualized Gestures, Poses, or Suggestive Behavior

What to AvoidExamples
Objects or gestures used to simulate sexual activity or intimate body parts (female breast, genitalia, buttocks)
  • A close-up product or mannequin shot centered on the buttocks or gluteal cleft while a hand or gesture points to, touches, or simulates contact with the intimate area
  • A person licking or suggestively handling a prop in a way that imitates sexual activity or mimics an intimate body part
Deliberately drawing attention to intimate or nearby body parts through camera angles, editing, gestures, or body positioning in a way that emphasizes sexual features
  • A tightly cropped lingerie image that excludes most of the face and uses frontal posing, cutouts, or styling lines to center attention on the breasts or pelvic area
    • Acceptable: A wider catalog-style lingerie image that shows the full face and overall outfit without isolating intimate areas or using provocative framing
Displays, poses, or behaviors that simulate sexual arousal or explicit acts. Why this matters: Poses that simulate sexual acts are a common reason for content removal.
  • Exaggerated twerking
  • Simulated humping
Product showcases that use exaggerated movements, poses, or camera angles to highlight intimate areas or suggestive actions rather than the product itself
  • A close-up rear-facing product shot that uses a hand, pose, or framing to highlight a buttocks cutout or simulate touching an intimate area instead of neutrally presenting the product

Avoid Sexual Themes or Suggestive Context

What to AvoidExamples
  • Captions, expressions or slang with sexual undertones
  • Sexually suggestive language or role-play intended to create a sexualized context around the product
  • Sexual themes, innuendo, or explicit imagery, including animations or suggestive camera angles
  1. Expressions with sexual tones or undertones
    • Explicit sexualized phrases or body-focused invitations
    • Food-based euphemisms used in a sexual context
    • Emoji combinations commonly used to imply sexual acts
  2. Using slang with sexual undertones
    • Slang phrases that imply sexual acts
    • Statements expressing a desire for degrading or overtly sexual treatment

Additional Guidelines

What to AvoidExamples
Logos, imagery, or branding associated with adult-oriented platforms
  • A visible Pornhub domain watermark or OnlyFans brand mark is a direct violation
  • Verbally redirecting users to adult platforms for transactions or naming pornographic platforms to encourage off-platform contact

Best Practices

Choose suitable camera angles and avoid nudity or implied nudity

  • Choose suitable camera angles that do not emphasize body parts.
  • Cover more than half of the breast area, and avoid breast close-ups that take up most of the screen.
  • Fully cover the intergluteal cleft (butt crack), and avoid buttock close-ups that dominate the majority of the frame.

Promote Products in a Natural Way

  • Focus on product features like fabric, comfort, fit, stretch, and design.
  • Highlight practical use cases (daily wear, layering, and comfort).
  • Use a neutral, informative tone and avoid suggestive language.
  • For intimate hygiene products, use clear, educational language about function and benefits, with phrases such as 'gentle formulas' or 'soothing ingredients'.
  • For shapewear, focus on comfort, material quality, and everyday wear support.

Create clear, safe, and suitable demonstrations

  • Use mannequins, flat-lay shots, or torso props for revealing items.
  • Pair skin-tone or tight items with additional clothing.
  • For stockings or similar items, focus on material and texture and pair with shorts or skirts.
  • Avoid framing private areas.
  • Showing the body’s natural curves is acceptable, but no kneeling, lying down, leg-spreading, or stripping poses are allowed.

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