Bans on nudity on popular sites such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have led Vienna museums to turn to OnlyFans, a site known for explicit sex and live camgirls to show some of their artwork, such as The Embrace, above, by Egon Schiele.
Vienna’s tourism board has attacked the three sites for making the museums “casualties of this new wave of prudishness.” In response, all three of the companies offered some variation on a claim to make exceptions for art. Instagram, for instance, says that “nudity in photos of paintings and sculptgure is OK.”
Despite the social media companies’ statements, spokespersons for a consortium of Vienna museums say that they have had continuing issues with posts being taken down, and with their accounts being banned for repeat offenses.
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