He said: ‘We have always promoted an honest dating space for people who are looking to form relationships rather than find casual hook-ups
But one dating app is attempting to combat this, by introducing a filter that prevents users from sending nude pictures – so, even if you end up really liking each other and fancy taking the conversation to the next level, you’re going to have to do that in the privacy of your own text messages.
Every photo uploaded to the website is pushed through a filter that detects both face and nudity. The filter then goes on to score the picture and will reject it if it detects a certain level of nudity – such as the showing of genitalia.
Matt Verity, co-founder of said he was inspired to place the filter on the app after finding that the majority of online daters wanted ‘penis shots and gratuitous body flashing shots to be a thing of the past’.
We don’t want to take the fun out of dating, just bring some decorum back! Once users are chatting through private messages, it is up to them what they send, of course.’
Alongside the prevention of nude photos, the app is also attempting to stop people from embellishing on their profiles. Continue reading “Finally, a dating app that prevents people from sending and receiving unsolicited nude photos”