This means that they rely on influencers and organic posts for social media marketing. Honey Play Box, like many adult brands, isn't able to advertise on Facebook or Instagram. 'I didn't realize it was such a conservative platform that even would be removable.' It wasn't even sexual in the action I portrayed,' she said. As a part of the 'old fashioned' TikTok trend, Alexa kneaded dough and said it was like how she feels using her hands to masturbate instead of a toy. As an example, she described a video she made for online sex shop Honey Play Box. TikTok has been the most aggressive in Alexa's experience.

Sex workers fear targeting under Instagram's terms of service Gabrielle Alexa, author of the upcoming How to Live With the Internet and sex-positive content creator, said she's had posts removed from TikTok and had her Instagram account banned (though unlike others, hers was quickly restored). In her research, Elefante is trying to prove something many adult content creators already know: Censorship is rampant on social media. 'The number of accounts that are shadowbanned - you can't just Google that.'

'A lot of these issues.are hard to understand and wrap your head around just how grave they are,' said Elefante. This includes deleting posts, shadow banning, and removing accounts and hashtags totally. Trying to tease out quantitative (and qualitative) measures of censorship and its impact is part of Lips's community manager Val Elefante's role. While some statistics of social media shutting out certain voices are public - such as how 73 percent of neutral or positive LGBTQ news from LGBTQ publishers is incorrectly flagged due to brands' blacklisted keywords - it's difficult to get a true sense of just how far it goes. How Lips is different from any other social network Regardless of the flavor, these actions by social networks silence marginalized voices and hurt them financially. If one isn't straight-up banned, they could be shadowbanned, or blocked from advertising. TikTok is 'purging' users with OnlyFans in their bios. Instagram, which Facebook owns, changed their terms of use in December sex educators are already saying their content is being censored. Tumblr banned adult content in 2018 after being a beacon for sex/sexuality education and porn gifs. But Facebook is far from the only network that bans basically any type of adult content like (gasp!) an uncensored nipple. While Facebook was busy splitting hairs about nipple photos in 2015, it took insurrectionists storming the Capitol for Mark Zuckerberg to ban Donald Trump, who spouted misinformation on the platform for years. It's a much needed alternative to mainstream social networks. Founder Annie Brown and her team want users - sex workers, erotic artists, queer people, activists, and more - to post without fear of censorship or harassment. Lips, a new social network geared towards free sexual expression, aims to provide that space. There are fewer and fewer places for sex workers, sex educators, and adult content creators to find a home online.

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