Are there restrictions on photographs of teenagers or children?

Any person under the age of eighteen (18) may not legally be depicted nude, partially nude, or in an erotic or other sexually driven manner in any deviation or scrapbook submission.

Official limitations on child/teenage photography;

• No photograph will be allowed to show a penis or vaginal area of any child of any age below the legal limit of eighteen (18).
••This includes infants and children under the age of two.
••There will be no exceptions for ‘artistic content’

•No photograph may display a nude minor with an appearance of being age two or older.
••This includes any angle of shot including front, side, back or any other possible viewpoint.
••This prohibition stands regardless of whether breasts or genitalia are visible or not.
••An exception for infants under the age of two with a bare bottom showing may be granted providing that neither penis nor vaginal area is visible. Exceptions are not guaranteed.

•Female children may be shown topless only if they appear to have not yet passed their second birthday.
••No female between the ages of two (2) and eighteen (18) may be depicted topless or implied to be topless in any manner whatsoever.

•Minors below the age of eighteen (18);
••May not be photographed in lingerie or undergarments.
••May not be photographed in any bondage or sadomasochistic scene or manner of dress.
••May not be photographed in any clearly sexual or alluring pose.
•••This applies for both clothed and unclothed photographs.
••May not be photographed in possession of sexual toys, condoms, or any related “adult” materials.

•Efforts to bypass any of these restrictions through the use of transparent clothing, blurring, ‘black bars’, props or other means of censoring will be considered invalid and inadequate by reviewing staff and will be treated as if these measures were not used at all.

•For minors (primarily teenagers) caught resubmitting nude or erotic content which has been previously removed a Two Week Suspension at minimum will be given on the second offense. If the same minor resubmits similar material a third time an Indefinite Ban will be placed by staff and they will be barred permanently from operating any deviantART account whatsoever.

•Any minor caught creating an account in order to deliberately falsify their age so that they may submit otherwise prohibited erotic content will be placed under an Indefinite Ban and they will be barred permanently from operating any deviantART account whatsoever.