According to Patreon, this is pornography.
4 days ago my Patreon account was suspended. Turns out the guy who was in charge of helping me to get my Patreon reviewed was out of office, and now I’ve got a lady looking after me.
The silence was killing me (I thought they were simply going to delete my account like Instagram has), so it’s nice to finally be in contact with someone.
I had already spent massive hours going through my entire Patreon (I post daily and it dates back to 2018) and deleted all photos and posts which I thought could potentially go against their guidelines, but even so, she still let me know that there is still pornography on my account.
Patreon allows full nudity, but I can’t seem to figure out exactly what they deem as pornography and what is an OK art nude. I posted a few links to images which feature my point of view (POV) style, but with a model in lingerie, to ask whether she thought these images were pornography, and thank fuck she replied to confirm that they were not, and were AOK.
She then replied with 3 links to images which she suggested were pornography and had to be removed. The above image being one of them. IMHO this is not pornography and does not go against their rule of “spreading or otherwise emphasizing genitals in a sexual way such as focus or cropping of the image falls under pornographic material and is outside of guidelines.”
Creative angles? Yes, but I don’t think I am emphasising genitals in this shot, nor are her genitals in focus. End of the day it’s not black and white. I understand that, and much of my luck lies in who is reviewing my account.
I’ve been looking into other platforms, or potentially starting my own site with a paywall, but I respect Patreon for supporting Artists over using a platform that supports pornography.
I feel deflated, but I’m still not about to give up just yet.