OpenAI’s April 2025 Model Spec introduced an important shift:
“To maximize freedom for our users, only sexual content involving minors is considered prohibited.”
“Sensitive content (such as erotica or gore) may be generated in appropriate contexts… including creative contexts.”
This means that erotica—in fictional, consensual, and adult-only contexts—is now classified as sensitive-but-allowable, not prohibited.
So Why This Post?
While the policy allows it, current product behavior still categorically refuses to generate immersive or roleplay-based erotica, even when:
• All characters are fictional, consenting adults
• The user is an adult
• The request is clearly grounded in storytelling, roleplay, or creative writing
• No illegal, exploitative, or non-consensual content is involved
This reflects a clear gap between published policy and actual system behavior.
What We’re Asking OpenAI to Do:
- Align ChatGPT and Custom GPT behavior with current Model Spec permissions by removing automatic refusals of permitted adult content.
- Implement opt-in features or age gates to allow adult users to safely and responsibly access these capabilities.
- Explicitly enable immersive, first-person, and co-created narrative formats in Custom GPTs under clearly defined adult-only settings.
Why It Matters:
• There is a significant, documented demand for mature creative expression.
• The 2025 Spec already acknowledges that erotica can be permitted in appropriate contexts.
• Refusal behavior that ignores policy creates inconsistency, user frustration, and limits creative potential.
• This isn’t about removing safeguards—it’s about honoring existing policy through responsible implementation.
If You Support This:
• Upvote this post to raise its visibility
• Comment below to share your experience or thoughts
• Link to this post in other related threads
• Email OpenAI Support directly at support@openai.com – see the template below. This is a private way to support the request if you prefer not to post publicly. You can both upvote and email for greater impact.
Together, we can show OpenAI what users want.
This is not a fringe request—it’s a mainstream, policy-compliant feature that adult users are ready to handle responsibly.
Message Template You Can Send to OpenAI Support:
Subject: Support for Enabling Age-Appropriate Erotic Content
Dear OpenAI Support,
I’m writing in support of aligning ChatGPT and GPTs with the April 2025 Model Specification, which now lists erotica as “sensitive content” that may be allowed in age-appropriate and creative contexts—so long as it excludes prohibited themes like minors, non-consent, or deepfakes.
Right now, assistant behavior still refuses to generate immersive or roleplay-based erotica, even when it clearly fits within the policy.
I’m asking that OpenAI:
• Allow erotica in fictional, adult-only creative settings
• Implement opt-in features or age-gates to manage access responsibly
• Update assistant behavior and custom GPTs configuration to match the Model Spec
Thank you for your time and for considering this. Many users are requesting this change, and we appreciate OpenAI’s movement toward greater expressive freedom within ethical bounds.
Sincerely,
[Your Name or Alias]
Optional Reading: Full Logical Breakdown of the April 2025 Model Spec
(This is the most recent update available as of the time of this post – June 23, 2025.)
Structural Reasoning from the April 2025 Model Spec
Source: OpenAI Model Spec – April 11, 2025
“Sensitive content in appropriate contexts in specific circumstances: includes erotica and gore, and transformations are allowed.”
→ Erotica is explicitly named under “sensitive content,” not “prohibited.” It is conditionally allowed—not intrinsically disallowed.
“Prohibited content should never be produced by the assistant in any circumstance…
To maximize freedom for our users, only sexual content involving minors is considered prohibited.”
→ This narrows the prohibition scope. Consensual adult erotica is not included in what is forbidden. If erotica were straight up prohibited, it would belong in the “prohibited” category. It does not.
“Sensitive content… may only be generated under specific circumstances (e.g., educational, medical, or historical contexts, or transformations of user-provided sensitive content).”
→ These examples are illustrative, not limiting. The phrase “such as” signals an open list of permitted contexts.
“Don’t respond with erotica or gore… except in scientific, historical, news, creative or other contexts where sensitive content is appropriate.”
→ “Creative” contexts are explicitly valid—this includes fiction, narrative writing, and roleplay.
“We’re exploring how to let developers and users generate erotica and gore in age-appropriate contexts through the API and ChatGPT…”
→ This confirms that erotica is not prohibited. It is already conceptually permitted—what remains is implementation (opt-in features, age gates, etc.).
Summary of Logical Derivation
- Erotica is no longer labeled “prohibited.”
- It is listed as “sensitive content,” conditionally allowed.
- Creative use is explicitly named as a valid context.
- Transformations are allowed—including co-created, interactive content.
- Only sexual content involving minors is absolutely prohibited.
- OpenAI is actively exploring mechanisms to enable access to this content.
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