SCRUFF puts stop to sexy poses and jock straps

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January 26, 2019 | Online

SCRUFF puts stop to sexy poses and jock straps

Gay hook-up app SCRUFF is coming under fire for changing its policy around profile pictures.

Earlier this week it alerted users that “to comply with platform policies, photos in underwear, jockstraps or bikini style bathing suits are no longer permitted in profile photos.”

“All gay and queer apps must enforce app store content policies or risk being removed from the app stores altogether, and this happened to SCRUFF earlier this year," Scuff CEO Eric Silverberg explained, revealing that the app had been removed from one of the main online app store.

He added: “Had this removal been permanent, it would have been devastating to our company and our community."

“Sexually suggestive embraces” are also banned, as are:

exposed genitals (not even a small, tiny part)
visible erections or visible outline of genitalia in clothes
shower shots
shots of genitalia obscured by towels or hands
cropping of shots to make the crotch focal point of the photo
collages or compositions of multiple photos

"Given that Scruff is a community that speaks openly and positively about sex, bodies, and intimacy, some feel that such policies are at odds with those values,” Silverberg admitted. “Such criticism is not unfounded.

"Scruff respects the concerns voiced by our community on this matter, and we encourage everyone to continue to hold us, and all tech companies, accountable for the content and conduct standards we enforce."

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