Nude Models Are Selling NSFW Photos to Raise Money for Australian Fire Relief – By EJ Dickson (Rolling Stone) / Jan 6 2020
By trading nude photos for donations to relief groups, people are raising thousands of dollars to help Australia — but some social media platforms are shutting them down
The fires in Australia have been raging for months, destroying 14.8 million acres, displacing thousands of families from their homes, and killing at least 20 people. Appalled by the lack of media coverage of the fires, one woman decided to raise money by offering nudes in exchange for donations to a disaster relief fund — only to have her accounts disabled by Instagram not once, but twice.
Kaylen Ward, 20, is a California-based model and online sex worker who goes by the Naked Philanthropist on Twitter. On January 3rd, she posted a tweet promising to send nudes to anyone who donated at least $10 to one of the organizations on her list for disaster relief. “Every $10 you donate = one nude picture from me to your DM. You must send me confirmation that you donated,” she wrote along with the hashtag #AustraliaOnFire and a censored (but still probably NSFW) nude photo. The tweet went massively viral, garnering nearly 75,000 retweets as of Monday afternoon. In a follow-up tweet, Ward wrote that her efforts resulted in her campaign raising nearly $500,000 in a little more than two days.
Then Instagram abruptly disabled Ward’s account, even though she primarily ran the fundraising campaign on Twitter. When she tried to make another account, that one was disabled as well. All in all, Ward tweeted, Instagram has disabled three of her accounts, with a number of imposter accounts popping up in the process.
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When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Facebook (which owns Instagram) told Rolling Stone, “This account was disabled for violating our policies. Offering nude images is not allowed on Instagram.” When asked which specific policy Ward violated by fundraising in exchange for nudes, the spokesperson directed Rolling Stone to Facebook’s policy prohibiting sexual solicitation, including “offering or asking for…nude photos/videos/imagery.” (Ward has denied violating Instagram’s policies.) But the success of Ward’s fundraising efforts prompted many other nude models to band together and kickstart their own campaigns.
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