eBay: No Adults Only Items Including Adult Films, Hentai Anime/Manga/Video-games

[MOONPHASE]

eBay announced in a notice sent out to sellers listing items on its "Adult Only" section on Friday that the "Adult Only" category will no longer be available for new listings as of June 15. In addition, the company will forbid the sale of "items showing sexual activity, sexual content or sexually suggestive poses" on its website effective June 15.

The website's new policy details the items that will no longer be allowed for sale on the site, and states that "sexually explicit anime, comics, books, films, animation, manga, hentai, yaoi;" as well as "Adult films and video games with a rating of X, XXX, R18, or unrated for an adults-only audience;" and "adult anime/manga that include sexually-explicit content, nudity, or sexual stories" are prohibited.

eBay clarified that artwork depicting nudity are an exception and that sellers may relist such items under the website's "Art and Collectables" section as long as they do not contain sexually suggestive poses. Similarly, sex toys and sex accessories are still permitted, provided the products "[do] not include images of nudity or sexual content."

The new policy also makes a specific exception for the Playboy, Playgirl, Mayfair, and Penthouse magazines in the Magazines category of the site "as long as the listing does not contain nude images or explicit content."

Sellers will be able to relist the items that were in the "Adult Only" category that do not go against its new regulations in other categories. However, items containing nudity or depicting "sexual activity" are no longer allowed on the website.

The company defines nudity as "showing any part of male or female genitalia, anus, or female breasts where the areola or nipple is visible;" "modeled clothing that is see-through or very tight and shows human genitalia, the anus, or the nipple/areola of female breasts;" "male erections, even if the model is clothed;" and "people engaged in sexual contact or activity."

eBay also explained the reasoning behind this new policy, stating: "We want to make adult items available to those who wish to purchase them and can do so legally, while preventing those who do not wish to view or purchase these items from easily accessing them."

In recent years, many platforms have come down on hosting pornographic or sexual content. Tumblr banned adult content in December 2018. Instagram updated its terms of use in December 2020 to disallow sex workers to advertise on the platform. In 2019, PayPal dropped its support of payments to pornographic content creators on the Pornhub website. Similarly, Patreon began suspending accounts of some adult content creators in 2018.

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[Darkstream]

This is just weird and cowardly on eBay's part. I understand not having explicit images shown in the listing's description, but to ban all adult material. At what point do they start to prohibit the sale of NC-17 and R-rated movies that push the envelope of mature content?

[The Collector FX]

God forbid a 12 yr old kid accidentally stumble upon a sexually explicit cover on eBay. If teens want to access porn - they will get it on pornhub and xvideos.com - not eBay...

That new policy is so pointless...

[Gorgon]

I give it 5 years before the Witch Trials start up again and they are most certainly gonna be looking for Warlocks too.

[bigzgod]

Ebay's site mentions July 15, not June 15th as the start date.

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[BluBonnet]

Why is ebay still around?

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Why is ebay still around?

Because a lot of us still buy a lot of stuff from them.

[Katatonia]

Originally Posted by bigzgod

Ebay's site mentions July 15, not June 15th as the start date.

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They just cancelled 2 of my listings (Vinegar Syndrome releases that were even in their system) a couple of days ago — and the email they sent out said June 15 in that... so it seems they aren't even sure of their madness.

With their forced new payment system and this kind of crap, they're literally driving sellers away en masse.

[badfingerboogie]

Can't even sell movies that show female nipples now?

Am I reading this right?

[Gorgon]

Just curious badfingerboogie if you've been keeping tabs on all the Anime being banned from sales in OZ?
It's a lot more than EBay is suggesting.

[badfingerboogie]

Originally Posted by Gorgon

Just curious badfingerboogie if you've been keeping tabs on all the Anime being banned from sales in OZ?
It's a lot more than EBay is suggesting.

I'd heard about it through a friend but hadn't looked into it - so are eBay taking down listings for basically all anime above a PG rating or something?

[MOONPHASE]

Should make it so that only Adults can access the Adult content and invisible to anyone else.

[kuzronk]

From me doing research of VHS sold listings this is pretty homophobic, most sold were MLM content.

[BobSimms]

Yikes. Good thing I’ve bought most of what I wanted. For DVDs, there’s the “adult dvd marketplace” website, but where does one go for vintage magazines, etc. outside of eBay?

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

Yikes. Good thing I’ve bought most of what I wanted. For DVDs, there’s the “adult dvd marketplace” website, but where does one go for vintage magazines, etc. outside of eBay?

Well it says magazines like PlayBoy are ok as long as the cover has no nudity on it or at least don’t show anything of it that shows nudity.

[The Collector FX]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Why is ebay still around?

Lol, don't be dramatic - a lot of people still use eBay. It's essential for tracking down OOP anime.

[IdeaOfEvil]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

I hate oatmeal raisin cookies, and I'll be damned if I ever look for them on a merchant website! But the fact that you're gonna have them for sale for someone else to look for is offensive to me!

What if an unsupervised kid looked for them!? What if a depraved adult who's just sick in the head sells them!? What if some weirdo took uncensored photographs of the raisins and oatmeal in suggestively lewd angles?!

For everyone's health and safety, take all raisin oatmeal cookie sales down!

[Water Panda]

So just how far are they going with this?

Tons of anime/manga have nudity/sex and aren't hentai. Also, tons of R and NC-17 movies have the same deal where it's part of the story.

I'm really curious if the payment processors forced this. They've been getting WAY more political lately and this reeks of thier involvement.

[The Sovereign]

If eBay was making much money in this area, they wouldn't be changing it. Just means more business for those who focus on it.

[Synchg]