Nudity, in the context of art (especially things like anatomy practice for artists) should be categorized as an +18 Art Stream. Explicit artwork of things like pornography should obviously be put up on another platform due to the nature of the content, but if for example a user was recreating an old Renaissance piece for study where the person(s) may be engaged in a violent, suggestive and/or lewd scene for personal practice, the individual should not be punished for such.

This would also be incredibly useful for monitoring creatives - who may do things such as 3D sculpting - to be able to create & share slightly Gorey/Suggestive WIPs with their audience, so long as it does not directly cross into a realm of illegal, morally wrong, or pornographic content.

In the context of regular streamers, an 18+ category blocked by a age-restriction wall/account verification would be beneficial to streamers looking to have less wholesome streams and *not* looking to advertise themselves to younger users in order to have serious or mature conversation going in their chat. If the platform is still wanting to support female streamers doing Hot Tub/Hot Yoga/Etc. (usually borderline lewd streams), then having a category for casual adult streamers to browse through may filter better for some users to find their new favorite content creators/genres. There are genuine streamers interested in fitness & others who could be or are abusing the tag for potentially borderline suggestive content.

Samedi dernier, un super dj du Québec, dj_rick, s'est fait banir sur chaîne parce qu'un utilisateur a volontairement montré de la nudité très explicite et inacceptable pendant le live. Je trouve décevant et dommage qu'un dj aussi respectueux des règlements de Twitch depuis 2 ans, avec une communauté incroyable et si respectueuse également, se fasse banir suite a un acte délibéré voulant volontairement causer la perte du dj. Tous les abonnés de sa chaîne sont touchés, privés et extrêmement déçus de cette sanction qui lui a été attribuée. Depuis 2 ans nous le soutenons, nous payons nos abonnements, nous avons énormément de plaisir et en quelques secondes, à cause d'un malfaiteur, nous en payons tous le prix. Il serait parfois judicieux de vérifier auprès des modérateurs afin de savoir si le dj a vraiment commis une infraction ou si c'est un auditeur malveillant et malfaisant qui en est l'auteur. Je suis totalement en faveur de sanctionner les propriétaires de chaînes qui entravent vos règlements, mais totalement contre de faire payer ceux qui les respectent, surtout depuis plusieurs mois. Merci d'accorder une réflexion sur les sanctions peut-être trop rapidement attribuées parfois, car l'impact de vos décisions est bien réelle et cause du tord à beaucoup d'auditeurs fidèles.

So after reading some comments and some other information as such, there's no reason for people that don't do art, or watch artist to get a vote/comment here, if you don't understand the issue, or are not affected by it then you don't have that issue.

All and every people who is saying "nudity shouldn't be allowed" is just a purist/******* who just sexualizes everything and everyone for no reason at all, grow up, drink your respect juice and stfu, you are the reason why we can't have nice things.

And if you're a parent who doesn't want this because childs and such, guess what, if they watch those streams is your fault, for being a terrible parent and not knowing what your kid is watching, its no ones faults but your's if your kid use your credit card to buy something online, so suck it up and stop bullying artist or any other type of streams with 18+ content.

Someone writes down really good reasons as to why (artistic) nudity isn't necessarily sexuality and all you read in the comments is "BUT HOTTUB". Like, bruv, get over your ego, stop being jealous and stop sexualising women.

All in all, take nudity and everything similar to a different website. And please fix the hot tub issue. Thanks.

Also, someone mentioned filling out a ton of sensitive info to verify your identity (info including your physical address, ID, phone number, and other sensitive info). If God forbid another "accidental" leak occurs at twitch, all of our sensitive info has the potential of being put out into the ether for anyone's taking. If you're an anonymous streamer, you won't be anymore, the second you hit upload on any one of those files.

Nudity is already practically allowed on twitch. Just type in "hot tub" or "yoga" or "stretching". It sucks because some people actually do have exercising channels where they do ACTUAL yoga, but the much bigger streamers who profit off their physical appearance overcast those people drastically. Trust twitch to not do anything about it, despite smaller streamers being banned for less severe infractions. Twitch is making WAYYYY too much money off these streamers to care about how people feel regarding this topic.

Nudity shouldn't be that big a deal in 2021, humans have bodies just like every other creature on this planet. Twitter has allowed nudity & even sex for years at this point & Instagram allows some partial nudity. Any advertiser who would break ties with Twitch over a naked body is not worth Twitch's time, money & massive audience. Some people say this wouldn't be "fair" because female streamers would make more money then their male counterparts, I feel this is a lackluster argument. The audience some female streamers have are already made up of different folks then the people who watch Warzone streamers for example. It's like saying K Dramas take away money from Michael Bay movies. Also the top earners on Twitch are male, just look at the top 20 on TwitchTracker. Also the people who tend to have these negative sentiments/arguments towards nudity tend to come from online communities with not the best views of women. As for users under 18, Twitch can add strict age verification rules, All Korean streaming sites already do this. At the end of the day though, it's up to parents because even with the strictest rules on Twitch, kids can still access Google, Bing & Yandex & view socially inappropriate sites & content for their age if parents don't step in. Also it's worth pointing out that nudity & sex are different things, so the argument that nude = 18+ is more of a cultural one & not necessarily true. I think if Twitch were to allow nudity, it would be a bold progressive move in the right direction towards more inclusivity & social acceptance. It would also help normalize the human body, which has been a problem in America in particular for quite some time.

Just create a “Nudity Content” tag and restrict non-logged in users and accounts without verified age from viewing the category.

Boom. There’s your solution. Instead of banning people, just let them appropriately tag the content they make. Period.

"It shouldn't be allowed as long as KIDS can easily access 18+ content without an ID check or further proof of being over 18."

Kids can easily access Twitch pages without ID check. The warning about mature content is for nothing.

If, then I would ask for ID cards, address at registration for everyone! Then, if somebody is younger than 18, should be not able to see those pages ment for mature people. Nothing...no chat, nothing.

And this way, harassment, bullying, etc. would be very easy to control. Nobody want to see police at the front door. Or?

And hot tub. Hot tub streams are soft port. It is all about sexuality. Has nothing to do with bathing or chat. Stretching? Yoga? It is only **** and ***. There are better platform for this **** than Twitch. But it is a good money for Twitch...so... why not let them drop they dress and then everybody could fap on Twitch content also.

Nudity is NOT a ****. It's nothing wrong with nudity. Wrong is connecting nudity with **** in Your minds.

If you want nudity, go to a pron site.

No.

It shouldn't be allowed as long as KIDS can easily access 18+ content without an ID check or further proof of being over 18.

Just no.

No, please not! It's already annoying enough with all those bath tub streams...
Twitch is not a **** platform and it attracts a lot of kids. You'd probably say "Add age restrictions to those streams" but that's an invalid argument because let's be honest: How many kids care about age restrictions in the inernet?

Nudity on Twitch has no advantages and should never be allowed!!!

******* .. if you wanna see naked girls go to pornhub or something .. its enough we have to deal with prostitutes in pools and other **** like that lately.

This is the only place I could find to add my input.

#TheHotTubMeta
#CamGirlLite
In the past 6 months we have seen a website come up that had 'all' of the girls that are presently doing the 'hot tub meta'. The name of this website was called Bunnyhop.tv. When observing this site, it had well over 24 or more female streamers from twitch alone, that nearly every single one of them having an account to onlyfans.com. Just think about that for a moment.

When people seen these girls on the site, they would go and warn the girls that this was happening. Low and behold though nearly 75% of these girls were ok with it because they new about it.

These girls are millionaires, they know what they are doing they are not stupid. Don't assume they are innocent.

Nearly all of these girls that are doing this hot tub meta, have an account to onlyfans or patreon that provides content that can be purchases with full nudity and even some with videos that can be sent directly to them.

I know this for a fact as I have tested this myself and am witness to this very thing.

It's not about them being in the confines of rules at this time, it's that they are using twitch to promote *********** for financial gains.

It should be a rule of thumb, that absolutely no streamer, should have any link on their pages, that leads to pornographic sales.

It is not to control what they do outside of twitch, but to control what they have linked with twitch in the promotion of such materials.

Giving an option to viewers to 'ignore or block' content is not enough. That is the same thing as ignoring the problem.

If you are going to allow this content then you need to rule on it and cut the wings off these naughty angels that are using twitch to promote *********** and direction to their pornographic sales. Twitch staff is more than welcome to message me directly or send me an email in regards to this topic and we can certainly go into more detail and discussion. Twitch and ***** do not belong together. Not even in lite version. Keep the family platform safe.

No

Nudity should only be allowed for certain types of content, for example in video games and artwork.

However, IRL nudity isn't something I want to see on Twitch as a creator and a viewer. If people want nudity, they'll go to a **** site. Twitch is not a **** site!

As long as there are child restrictions - maybe; but my 11 year old can easily click "OK" to show content. So do I need to monitor him 100% of the time? No. Twitch should be a 100% safe place for all ages - otherwise go to another platform and watch **** or nudity. What is the gain by allowing it here? I understand the art perspective; but most people on here are using nudity/partial nudity/extremely suggestive things in their streams - and it is doesn't belong on Twitch. There is good clean dirty fun on here, I enjoy it. But I do not hang out in rooms where girls are hanging over the camera, their breasts practically out of their shirt.
Getting bits and subs.. for what? It won't work - It will ruin this place..
Remember Amazon bought this platform and I doubt Jeff wants it to become another myfreecams website. Look it up - it already exists. Twitch does not need to become myfreecams. /endrant <3 much love to all

Usually if you want draw or build something, there is good chance for some time, nude parts can visible. Especially 3D modelling, you must sometimes zoom in for good detailwork, but yeah, some avatars starts naked and then slowly covered with clothes.

Of course we dont play with nude parts, its part of building process. Hope ToS can makes it clear and allow the artwork with drawings and 3D work.