LiveJournal permits adult-oriented communities. However, the maintainer of an adult-oriented community is expected to take reasonable steps to ensure that minors are not exposed to sexually explicit images.
Depending on the purpose of your community, any and all of the following steps might be required:
* Configure your community to be Closed Membership, as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=79 , and restrict membership to the community only to users whose birthdates on their User Information page indicate that they are over the age of 18.
* Require that all members of your community provide you with an age verification statement. If you choose this, we ask that you keep these statements on file.
* Require that all adult or explicit material to your community be posted with a security level of Members Only (
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=83)
If your community only contains occasional sexually explicit or adult material, such as the occasional nude photograph in a photography community, it is generally not necessary to restrict membership. However, these entries should be placed behind a lj-cut tag [
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75 ] and clearly contain a warning that they should not be viewed by minors.
Regardless of the purpose of your community, all community maintainers are responsible for verifying that any individual posting images of him- or herself is over the age of 18 if any of the images being posted contain full or partial nudity, or are designed to arouse, provoke, or otherwise sexually stimulate a viewer. Any image of someone under the age of 18 who is nude or semi-nude, or designed to arouse, can qualify as child pornography and is not permitted on LiveJournal's servers. If your community is designed for users to post pictures of themselves, you must make sure that you follow these restrictions.
If you are a member of an adult-oriented community, and you believe that minors are present in the community and should not be, please contact the community maintainer to assist you. If you are a member of any community and you are aware of someone under the age of 18 posting images of him- or herself containing nudity or partial nudity, or images that are designed to arouse, please contact the Abuse team.
If you have any questions regarding what steps should be taken for your community, or you wish to clarify any of these steps, please feel free to open an Abuse request by following the instructions located at
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=105 .
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