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This prohibition spans all media formats—text, image, audio, and video—and applies specifically where the content is intended to arouse, establishing intent as a defining element of the restriction.
Readers who place ads may not use text, images, audio, or video of graphic sexual acts intended to arouse.
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Your User Submissions will not contain any: (a) swearing; (b) comments or actions which appear to be discriminatory...(c) comments or actions which promote bigotry, racism, hatred...(d) sexual innuendo...
Profanity, violent, or graphic content, including hate speech or symbols.
Don't create or share defamatory or libelous content that could damage someone's reputation or falsely portray them in a harmful way.
"Text, image, audio, or video of graphic sexual acts intended to arouseExcerpt from Google Ads's Policy: Inappropriate Content
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This prohibition spans all media formats—text, image, audio, and video—and applies specifically where the content is intended to arouse, establishing intent as a defining element of the restriction.
Readers who place ads may not use text, images, audio, or video of graphic sexual acts intended to arouse.
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