I love Pure for so many reasons. (It’s particularly useful for anyone who’s looking for no-fuss, hot AF phone sex.) But that level of sauciness isn’t for everyone — and to be fair, Pure isn’t the only place you’ll find randos sending you unsolicited photos of their unruly trunks among the forest.
If you’re a Woman on the Internet and you’ve used a dating app, you may have (unfortunately) received an unsolicited explicit photo, which is known as cyberflashing. According to the Pew Research Center, about four in 10 online dating users (38 percent) report receiving a sexually explicit message or image they didn’t ask for. For women ages 18 to 49, that number jumps to 56 percent.
So, Pure — one of the most sex-positive dating apps I’ve ever tested — is stepping up to stop cyberflashing with a brand-new feature called My Media Rules.
Developed directly from community feedback, My Media Rules takes the anxiety out of opening your messages. The tool lets you set your own universal boundaries for the app, meaning you can choose to auto-block all nude pics, turn off media sharing completely, or keep things open. You can even toggle these permissions on a chat-by-chat basis. Plus, if a graphic image appears for the first time, Pure prompts you to adjust your filters right then and there — and lets you decide whether you want to keep talking to the person who sent it.
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“We love bringing fun and spontaneity to our community, but we believe that only works when it’s backed by privacy, respect, and consent,” Vicki Rool, Head of Trust & Safety at Pure, said in a statement. “People consistently told us they wanted more control over incoming media while keeping the spontaneity that makes Pure unique. We listened and built it. My Media Rules put that feedback into practice, giving people the choice of what type of media they receive.”
This new feature adds to Pure’s robust list of existing privacy tools, which includes native anti-screenshot protection, sensitive content blurring, and self-destructing photos and videos. (Which, honestly, is exactly why I recommend it for sexting!)
