r/gonewild Review

To earn the verified flair on r/gonewild, posters hold up a handwritten paper sign with their exact username, the date with the month spelled out and the name of the sub, in at least three color photos. The FAQ even suggests crumpling the sign into a ball first, so the creases prove nothing was pasted in later. All that effort serves one idea: consent. The FAQ calls the sub "a sex-positive community for consenting exhibitionists and their admirers", and its line on the subject is hard to beat: "No picture is sexier than those of people who want you to look."

The faces can stay out of it. Verification connects a body to a username, never to a real name, and the FAQ coaches anonymity in detail, from a throwaway account and a cropped face to blurred tattoos and photos stripped of EXIF data. Name guessing is a bannable offense. So is pestering anyone for off-site contact.

The first rule asks for visibly nude photos of yourself, tits, ass or pussy on show, and the FAQ puts it bluntly: if it is safe for Facebook, it is too mild for Gonewild. Money is kept out as firmly. Anyone who uses nudity elsewhere for gifts or cash, OnlyFans and cam shows included, is asked not to post; the feed stays about exhibitionism for the thrill of it. The sub dates back to 2008 and now draws about 856,000 weekly visitors and some 43,000 contributions a week, and every title carries a gender tag such as [f], [m] or [nb].

The FAQ is frank about the downside: posters will get creepy comments and messages, and the advice is to report, block and never write back. It also admits that the sub has grown less friendly to male posters and sends men to r/ladybonersgw instead.