The illustrations of female bodies removed by Facebook

Facebook has a strict adult content policy, which is quick to reject anything that violates the rules around nudity, sexually provocative, and overly suggestive content. These filters are especially harmful to the sexual wellbeing industry, which works hard to empower women, encouraging them to explore their bodies and tap into their sexuality. Female sexuality has long been regarded as a taboo topic, something that needs to change.

Fem-tech platforms, such as ourselves, have been censored by Facebook’s adult content policies, which has blocked over 60 iterations of our illustrated adverts that invite women to better explore and understand themselves and their bodies.

We are publishing this gallery of some of these rejected ads - and those that were eventually accepted - to draw attention to the censorship of women’s bodies that remains all too prevalent within society.

Emjoy is a sexual wellbeing audio app for women, created as a hands-on solution to aid in closing the orgasm gap and reduce pleasure inequality. The company aims to empower women to embrace, understand and vocalise their needs, encouraging them to seek, and demand, enjoyment.

As a female-founded tech company and content studio, Emjoy encourages over 170,000 users to explore their bodies and tap into their sexuality with guided practices designed by experts from various fields.

Emjoy’s mission is to raise women’s confidence by bringing awareness and understanding of their needs by encouraging habit building, through the guidance and expert knowledge of their in-house sex therapist Mia Sabat and renown experts, to provide users with guided practices, educational sessions, and audio erotic stories.