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Community Guidelines

I. Guidelines for interacting with each other

 

Deviance is a peaceful and respectful place

 

We expect our members to abide by our rules of conduct and content, which in turn are subject to our Terms of Use.

So please read both carefully.

Legal age

To register with Deviance, you must be at least of legal age. If this is not the case, please contact the an organization for young people with BDSM preferences, which will answer all your questions and show you other ways to meet someone.

No sex offenders

Convicted sex offenders or persons charged with a sexual offense are not allowed to create a profile on Deviance. If you have discovered such a person, please let us know immediately.

Do not out anyone

Deviance is a safe space for all those who are otherwise unable or unwilling to be open about their inclinations. If you discover someone from your family, friends or work environment, please keep it to yourself. Everyone is free to decide for themselves how much they want to reveal about themselves and whether or not to come out. Most people have good reasons for the latter.

What’s private stays private

What other members share about themselves in private conversations or the content you exchange is your private matter and must not be shared. Neither in word, writing, nor image. As long as no one behaves inappropriately, the conversation is only between the two of you.

Be kind to one another

You can’t agree with everyone, and you can’t please everyone either. However, always remain polite. Personal, insulting, aggressive, or racist attacks, criminal accusations or defamation, bullying, and any other form of disrespectful behavior have no place in dating. If your conversation partner violates these rules of conduct, don’t hesitate to report them to us immediately.

No kink shaming

The BDSM spectrum is endless, and you’ll encounter a variety of preferences, including those you may not understand. However, what someone likes or dislikes is highly subjective. Approach your counterpart with an open mind and without prejudice, and remember how you would feel if you were on the receiving end of kinkshaming.

Only your own content

Only upload images and texts for which you hold the rights. This means either because you created or wrote them, you are depicted in them, or you have explicit permission from the rights holder. Violations of personal and copyright will result in the deletion of at least the content in question.

No fake profiles

You do not increase your dating chances by creating multiple profiles or impersonating someone else. On the contrary, duplicate registrations will be deleted immediately; no one appreciates fake profiles.

No cash offers

Be aware that offering money to another private individual for sexual acts constitutes an offense. Therefore, we kindly ask findoms and fans of this practice to switch to other communication channels sooner rather than later.

II. Guidelines for image and text content

No minors and no animals

Neither in photos nor in texts are children, minors, or animals allowed. To avoid misunderstandings, this includes seemingly harmless contexts such as family photos or pictures from a recent dog walk. This rule also applies to fiction, implications, symbolic language, emojis, graphics, and motifs referring to children, minors, or animals. If the abuse of minors or animals becomes a topic in any private conversation, please report that person immediately.

A peaceful place for kinks

Dehumanizing, discriminatory, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and ableist statements, implications, or motifs have no place on Deviance.

No nudes or genitals

Nude pictures and images of genitalia in dating profiles are considered sexual harassment and will therefore be removed. Such images, when sent unsolicited in private conversations, can be classified as the unauthorized dissemination of pornographic material and may even lead to legal charges.

No depiction or description of explicit actions in the profile

Because that is also considered sexual harassment. Even if the individuals depicted are clothed or if it’s a story you find erotic in text form, we treat this as strictly as the issue of nude images.

No motives of violence or extreme practices

The depiction, description, or even suggestion of violence and extreme practices is strictly prohibited. This includes death, mutilation, rape (even if simulated, such as in rape play), scat, incest, blood, wounds, and more.

No power to drugs

The promotion of drugs, intoxicants, or any illegal substances in any form, whether overt or covert, is strictly prohibited. This also applies to fiction, suggestions, symbolic language, emojis, graphics, and motifs related to drugs, intoxicants, or other illegal substances.

No contact details or other online profiles

In order to protect our members, we do not allow the public viewing of contact data such as address, telephone number, e-mail addresses, user profiles in social networks and messengers on Deviance.

No advertising, promotion, calls

Our users are here to connect with each other through online dating. Therefore, we do not tolerate any form of advertising, promotion, or calls to action. This includes selling goods and services, promoting events, other websites/apps, fundraising appeals, demonstrations, missing person notices, chain letters, recruiting, or similar. This also applies to unrelated advertising. If you wish to advertise on Deviance, please contact us at [email protected]. Together and transparently, we will find a way.

III. Reporting violations

We do everything to make Deviance a safe, peaceful, and respectful place. If you encounter any violations of our Terms of Use or community rules, please do not hesitate to contact us immediately. You can use the report form on the platform or email us at [email protected].

Please note that processing may take some time.

IV. Questions, suggestions, wishes?

Would you like to give us feedback, have suggestions, questions or a technical problem? Then get in touch with us using the contact form. We look forward to hearing from you.