"Twitch Embraces Artistic Freedom: Allowing Nudity and Updating Content Policies"

Twitch has updated its sexual content policy to allow artistic depictions of nudity, including nude figure drawings of any gender, as long as creators apply a Sexual Themes Label. Content that highlights breasts, buttocks, or the pelvic region, even when fully clothed, is also permitted with the proper labels. This change aims to make the policy clearer and fairer to "female-presenting streamers" who were disproportionately penalized before. Additionally, Twitch now allows fictionalized fully exposed female-presenting breasts and/or genitals or buttocks, regardless of gender, as long as they are drawn, animated, or sculpted. However, "fictionalized sexual acts or masturbation" remain prohibited. The update also allows erotic dances like strip teases with a content label, while popular dances like twerking and pole dancing no longer require a label.