Forbidden Content & Community Standards

1.What BentBox is, and what it is not

BentBox is infrastructure. We host files, verify identities, process payments, deliver purchases and carry messages between creators and the people who follow them. We do not commission content and we do not produce it. We do choose what we accept — BentBox favours work with artistic intent — but once work is accepted, we do not decide who sees it first.

2.What is permitted

Adult content is the reason this platform exists. Nudity, explicit sexual activity, fetish and kink content, and content that many mainstream platforms would refuse are all permitted on BentBox, provided every one of the following is true:

If those five things hold, the explicitness of the material is not our concern. We are not here to tell adults what they may film with other consenting adults.

Meeting these conditions makes content permitted. It does not guarantee that it will be accepted: BentBox also applies editorial standards of quality and fit, described in Section 8.

3.Consent is the load-bearing rule

Nearly every prohibition further down this page is an application of a single principle: nobody appears in content on BentBox who did not agree to appear in it. Consent on this platform is not assumed, not inferred from participation, and not established by a creator's assurance that everything was fine.

3.1. A release is mandatory

Any content in which an identifiable person other than the creator appears requires a model release for that person, registered through ProntoID. If you are the only person in your content, your own verification and your decision to publish stand as your consent, and no separate release is needed. Content that is entirely AI-generated and depicts no real person needs no release, but must be declared as AI-generated when you publish. A ProntoTag — where the person confirms consent directly and their identity is verified — is the strongest form of release and the one we recommend.

3.2. Releases are session-specific

A release covers the session it was signed for. It does not carry forward to other shoots with the same person, however recent, and a release drafted in broad or perpetual terms does not change this. Registering a release against content it does not cover is treated as a failure to provide a release, not as a paperwork error.

3.3. Consent can be withdrawn

A person appearing in content may revoke their consent through ProntoID at any time. Revocation flows to BentBox as a signal and the affected content is restricted. Creators cannot contract around this, and no earnings claim survives it.

3.4. BentBox does not hold releases

Releases and identity documents live with ProntoID, a separate company and an independent data controller. BentBox receives a Form ID and the fact that a release exists. We are deliberately not in a position to read the terms of anyone's release, and we do not want to be.

4.Prohibited content

The categories below are prohibited without exception. They apply to uploaded media, cover images, titles, descriptions, tags, profile text, usernames, club and feed posts, and private messages. Simulation, fiction, roleplay, animation, AI generation and "it's just a fantasy" framing do not create exemptions — where a category is about depiction, the depiction is the violation.

5.Hate speech, extremism and dehumanisation

BentBox exists so that adults can sell work to other adults without being forced off mainstream infrastructure. That only works if the platform is not a hostile place to be. Content that attacks people for who they are is prohibited, in every surface of the platform — media, metadata, profiles, clubs, comments and private messages alike.

5.1. Protected characteristics

The following are prohibited where directed at a person or group on the basis of race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, religion, caste, disability, serious illness, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression:

• Dehumanising comparisons, slurs, and characterisations of a group as subhuman, criminal, diseased, vermin or property.
• Calls for, threats of, or celebration of violence, exclusion, segregation, deportation or denial of rights.
• Claims that a group should not exist, or content advocating their elimination.
• Harassment campaigns targeting a person on the basis of a protected characteristic.
• Content whose sexual premise is the humiliation of a person because of a protected characteristic, as distinct from consensual roleplay between verified participants who have each released the content.

5.2. Extremism and terrorism

• Content produced by, promoting, or expressing support for a terrorist organisation or violent extremist movement, including those designated under EU, Dutch, UK or US measures.
• Use of extremist or genocidal iconography, insignia, uniforms, slogans or numeric codes, whether as subject matter, styling or set dressing.
• Glorification, denial or trivialisation of genocide, the Holocaust, mass atrocities or crimes against humanity.
• Fundraising, recruitment, or distribution of operational material for any of the above.

5.3. Harassment and targeting

• Threats of violence against any person, whether or not they use the platform.
• Sustained abusive contact with a creator, buyer, or member of staff, including after being asked to stop or after being blocked.
• Coordinated pile-ons, impersonation, and the creation of accounts to evade a block.
• Sexual content about an identifiable real person created to demean them, including public figures.

6.Prohibited conduct

Some rules are about behaviour rather than material. These apply to every account.

• Off-platform solicitation. Using BentBox messages, comments, posts, profiles or usernames to move a transaction off the platform, advertise external stores or payment methods, or bypass our billing. Creators are free to promote their BentBox page anywhere they like; what is prohibited is using our infrastructure to route sales around it.
• In-person arrangements. Offering or requesting meetings, dates, companionship or escort services.
• Payment abuse. Fraudulent purchases, stolen cards, chargeback abuse, moving funds between accounts, and any use of the platform as a value-transfer mechanism.
• Account abuse. Sharing or selling account access, operating an account on behalf of another person without disclosure, evading a suspension, and creating accounts to manipulate sales or metrics.
• Spam and automation. Unsolicited bulk messaging, scraping, automated account creation, and unauthorised access to the platform or its APIs.
• Misrepresenting BentBox. Presenting yourself as acting for BentBox, or presenting BentBox as endorsing, selecting or promoting your content. We don't, for anyone.

7.Payment processor and card scheme rules

A further set of restrictions comes from Visa, Mastercard and our acquiring banks rather than from us. These are conditions of being able to take card payments at all, and they are not negotiable by BentBox or by any creator.

They chiefly affect language. A list of terms that cannot appear in titles, descriptions, tags or metadata — including deliberate misspellings, spaced-out letters and character substitutions intended to evade filtering — is maintained on the Forbidden Words page and is part of these standards.

8.Editorial standards: quality, fit and artistic intent

Everything above describes what is allowed. This section describes what BentBox wants. BentBox is a curated platform, and it favours work made with artistic intent — considered composition, deliberate lighting, a point of view.

Independently of whether content complies with every other standard on this page, BentBox reserves the right not to approve content, and to remove previously approved content from public pages, where in our judgement it:

• Falls short technically — low resolution, heavy compression or artefacts, poor focus, poor exposure, unstable or unintentionally shaky video, unusable audio, or screenshots showing on-screen interface elements.
• Falls short visually — careless framing, cluttered or distracting settings, unflattering or incidental lighting, or imagery that shows no evident thought in how it was made.
• Does not fit the look and feel of BentBox — content whose presentation, styling or tone is out of keeping with the platform's brand and the body of work around it, including cover images and titles that are crude, sensational or designed to shock rather than to describe.
• Lacks evident artistic or creative intent — content that is primarily repetitive, mass-produced, recycled, or published in volume at the expense of quality.

8.1. Public cover images

A cover image is the public face of a Box. It is what appears on listing pages, in search, and wherever a link to your work is shared, so it is held to a different standard from the content inside. Explicit material belongs inside the Box, delivered privately to the people who have chosen to buy it. The cover should make someone want to open it.

Nudity on a cover is not in itself a problem. What we look for is a cover that is glamour or artistic in character: well lit, well composed, and technically clean. With the tools available today, anyone can produce a beautiful cover image, and we expect the cover to reflect the care that went into the work behind it. The same applies to video poster images and profile pictures, which are also public. Preview thumbnails and short video previews, which buyers look at when deciding whether to purchase, may show explicit material, as may everything inside the Box. The Content Guidelines explain where each kind of image appears.

A cover that does not meet this standard does not mean the Box is rejected. In almost every case we will simply ask you to choose or create a different cover. Practical advice on covers, technical quality and presentation is in our Content Guidelines.

8.2. How we handle editorial decisions

Editorial decisions are about the image — its technical and visual quality — and never about the person in it or the person who made it.

We have talked to creators about quality since 2015, and it is a large part of why BentBox has a reputation both for good communication and for higher-quality work. Our first step is a conversation, not a removal: we tell you what the issue is and, where we can, how to fix it. We also get it wrong sometimes. If you think we have, tell us — we are always happy to take another look, discuss it, and put it right.

Editorial standards decide what is accepted. They do not change how accepted content is displayed: once published, everything appears on public pages newest-first, whoever made it. Editorial judgement is applied to the work, never to the person, and never on the basis of any characteristic listed in Section 5.1.

9.How we enforce

Enforcement is proportionate to what was broken. We would generally rather correct a listing than close an account, and most issues we see are description problems rather than content problems. That latitude does not extend to the categories in Section 4.

Decisions are taken by people, not by automated systems acting alone. Where an automated check flags content — a likeness comparison that does not resolve, a keyword match, a duplicate-detection hit — it queues the item for human review rather than deciding the outcome.

10.Reporting content

Anyone can report content, whether or not they hold an account, and whether or not they are the person affected. Send the link to the content and a short description of the problem to info@bentbox.co.

• Child sexual abuse material, trafficking, and threats to life are handled immediately and around the clock. Mark the subject line URGENT.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery is prioritised. If you appear in content on BentBox that you did not consent to being published, write to us and the content is restricted while we investigate. You do not need to prove ownership first.
• Everything else is reviewed and resolved within 7 days.
• Copyright claims go through the DMCA process.

Reporters acting in good faith are protected, and we do not disclose the identity of a reporter to the account they reported. Repeated bad-faith or automated reporting is itself a breach of these standards.

11.Statements of reasons and appeals

When we restrict, remove, or act against an account, we tell the creator what we did and why: which standard was applied, what the decision was based on, whether an automated check was involved, and how to challenge it. We withhold that only where giving it would interfere with a law enforcement investigation or where the law prohibits it.

You have six months to appeal. Send the content link and your response to info@bentbox.co with APPEAL in the subject line. Appeals are reviewed by someone who was not involved in the original decision, and we aim to respond within 14 days. If an appeal succeeds, the content is reinstated and any associated hold on earnings is released.

Editorial decisions under Section 8 can be reviewed on request in the same way. A review looks at whether the standard was applied fairly and consistently; the underlying judgement of quality and fit remains BentBox's to make.

Appeals are not available for decisions taken on the ground that content depicted, or appeared to depict, a person under 18 (Section 4).

These standards do not remove any right you have to take a dispute to an out-of-court dispute settlement body or to a court in your jurisdiction.

12.Our use of creator content

We do not promote individual creators as an editorial act, and no creator can buy placement. We do occasionally use creator content on BentBox's own social media accounts and in platform promotional material. When we do:

• The creator is named and credited in the post.
• The post links back to the creator's BentBox page.
• Only content the creator has already published publicly is used, never private, paid or club-only material.
• The material is adapted to the standards of the platform it is posted on, which in practice means clothed or SFW imagery.
• No rights transfer. This is promotion of your work under the same limited licence described in Section 1, not a licence to exploit it.

You can opt out at any time, before or after the fact, by emailing info@bentbox.co. We will stop, and remove existing posts on request. Opting out has no effect on your account, your earnings or your standing on the platform.

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