iStockphoto - Stock Photography Training Manual

4.0 Quality Standards

4.15 Nudity

iStock does accept artistic partial and full nudity stock photography. However we reserve the right to decline files if the subject and composition is considered pornographic, obscene, or otherwise unsuitable to the iStock collection.

Adult Content Filter: Individual images can be flagged during the inspection process as containing “adult content”. Any file so flagged will be excluded from search results by people who have opted to filter out adult content.

iStock defines adult content as “language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for publishing medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities.” This includes patently offensive sexual or excretory references that do not rise to a level of obscenity.