Whether we like it or not, they are.

Their guidelines explicitly allow for real world art that depicts sexual content. Some artists are being banned completely.

A good example: The Little Black Gallery in London had their entire account deleted for a congratulatory post that had a silhouette image of a woman.

Artists need a platform to be seen.

I ran into an issue when I tried to promote my watercolor class Go Figure. This course will help you paint realistic and natural human figure, and my very non-explicit image was considered too explicit for Instagram.

Click here for access to my Go Figure class.