Because Twitch focuses largely on marketing directly to children? You cannot separate the fact that Twitch is trying to become the site for all gaming (including children) and also allowing nearly-softcore porn on the same site. Its literally a few clicks away. Now, they think because they made a separate category, advertisers will be fine with it.

They are lucky that hot tub streamers haven't gotten mainstream news attention yet, I can't imagine the outrage of parents when they see some of the stuff thats allowed....

Can you imagine the outrage of parents when they see what their kids can see by googling? Bad argument.

> I didn't know there were so many outraged prudes on twitch. Why should twitch have a sexually suggestive content rule in the first place?

If you're asserting that thinking hot tub streams break ToS, and Twitch's selective enforcement of that ToS causes problems very frequently on their platform, makes me an "outraged prude", well I'm sorry friend. Gaslighting an entire community doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

> Nudity or sexually explicit content (which we define as pornography, sex acts, and sexual services) are not allowed on Twitch.

Is wearing a bikini, facing away from a camera and touching your toes for $5 not sexually explicit?

> I don't see what the huge issue with showing off your own sexiness is. Sheesh!

The issue is inconsistency. I think they should update the ToS to support these streamers - they're some of the biggest streamers on the platform. To suggest that those streamers are not being sexually suggestive is, again, an absolute joke. Twitch themselves made the determination that sexually suggestive content is not welcome on their platform, not me.

Because there are other places for that. Many people browse twitch at work (let’s not debate that) and don’t want to see that kind of content. Or on machines visible at home around other family members.

These women have every right to do as they please, and most likely will continue to push the boundaries of twitch’s tolerance. I suspect we will have car washing streams or sauna streams next to get around the rule.

But I don’t want to see it.

Wouldn't a simple solution be to allow people to disable or hide NSFW streams? Reddit and Twitter both have this, IIRC.

This is the fundamental part of the problem. People are acting as if these streams are not sexualised and SFW.

It seems like a lot of the people in this thread are not really twitch users and aren't really aware of what's being discussed. They're seeing "Hot Tub Streams" and think it's just a person sitting in a hot tub, unaware of how sexual these streams have become.

Even if that were the case, they need to be segregated, very clearly from normal streams. I don't want to see women or men in minimal close when casually browsing in a public place.

That doesn't fix the issue of ruining the Twitch brand.

Twitch has an audience that's largely children...

I guess you think that Twitch should allow itself to become a cam site then.

The issue is that Twitch is not supposed to be for this type of content.

When you think of Twitch, do you think of hot tub streamers and cam girls? No, you think of things like gaming and IRL.

Americans are still ashamed of sexuality and think it needs to be locked up. That said, it's clearly not 'just chatting' and probably belongs in a 'sexysexy' category.

It isn't just Americans. Many cultures around the world have some form of it.