And now everyone’s favorite subject, internet porn. It deserves a certain amount of attention simply because a lot of people and websites don’t seem to comprehend the difference between art and porn, and they’ll accuse you of posting porn for something that’s anything but. And it’s usually about as bizarre as you can imagine. I’ve seen belly dancing videos get yanked because she’s too scantily-clad for some censor’s liking, but someone can post a music video showing far more skin and dancing that looks like an outright sex act.
I bring it up mainly because I like a lot of old science fiction and fantasy art by guys like Boris, Frazetta, Olivia, Sorayama, etc. I’m also a fan of the old Heavy Metal magazines. People get posts pulled and three-day suspensions from Facebook for posting some of that kind of artwork because you can see a nipple. If you like (or create) art like that or something similar, make sure you see what will fly where you’re posting it. Paid hosting is a solid bet here.
Some of these sites are as ridiculous about nudity as Facebook, but others are pretty lenient. You can get away with a lot on Pinterest, but occasionally they’ll slap a “sensitive content” label on your post. Blogger hosts actual porn blogs, but there’s a warning label on them that makes you click a button before you go to the site. I haven’t seen this on WordPress, but I’m not actively searching for it either. I absolutely do not recommend Tumblr for art of that nature. They have actual porn accounts on there posting graphic video, but they’ve stripped other accounts of every post containing the slightest hint of nudity.
I’ve mentioned the TOS of your hosting company a few times. If you go the paid hosting route, you’ll have to deal with it. That company probably has some small restrictions on what you can get away with posting, all of which boil down to “don’t do illegal stuff.” The main restriction on my current hosting package is “don’t use us as an external hard drive, and don’t run a filesharing network off your site.” Don’t post a nine-hour video tutorial on building your own meth lab or the kind of porn that qualifies as a sex crime in most of the civilized world. I haven’t had any issues, but I don’t post anything too nasty. That said, there are some pretty sketchy sites out there, so either they have some very lenient (or reprehensible) hosting companies, or they’re running their own servers.
This applies doubly to free hosting, whether through WordPress.com or some other free hosts. With them, you not only have to deal with the obvious “don’t be a criminal” TOS, but their own quirks. Back in the bad old days, Geocities and Angelfire would pull sites in a heartbeat for posting “porn” even when said “porn” was artistic nudity like an old painting or a modeling photoshoot where you could see a nipple.