Offering or asking for sex
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What triggers it
Offering or asking for sexual encounters, escort or paid sexual services, or sex chat; slang for prostitution combined with availability, price, location, contact details or any sign of a transaction.
What Instagram says
“Using slang terms for prostitution combined with an ask or offer of availability, price, or any signal of a transaction for money or something of value, location, or contact information”
We last checked this against Instagram's page on .
How to fix it
Remove pricing, availability and contact lines from any sexual context, and keep adult-platform promotion off Meta apps.
Good to know
Look for 'DM for rates', menus, 'available tonight', or links to paid sexual services next to sexual slang. A link to an adult subscription site in a sexual context is high risk. Sex education and dating talk without an offer do not count.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's said, the words on screen, the caption and the hashtags. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: not for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: looked at for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: looked at for this rule
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Related Instagram rules
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