Cuz inappropriate. It's just a diff category. People are culturally more sensitive to nudity than pew pew head explodes.

Edit: also as brought up below, usually it has to be reported and flagged to get removed. Steam doesn't go around looking through profiles to find things. Someone your friends may or may not know didn't like their pics. They have neither the desire nor the manpower. But, their house their rules.

Because sex is WAAAAYYY worse than violence. True story.

It's a medical condition, they can't help it!

As a rule of thumb. Steam only enforces that if enough people report it. And they don't delete the screenshots, just force them to be private. I had that happen to a one of the postcards from Twitcher.

blame the church cause you can kill for god but sex is WRONG!! thought its the reason we all exist.

Well, at least you can always sync your steam screenshot folder with a semi-private dropbox folder, that way I think it will be almost impossible to get your screenshots deleted and still being in the cloud.

Again, in the ToS, I haven't checked it, but may be there xD...

because there are kids over here stupid

"So yeah. Is there any part of the ToS or EULA or any of those wall of texts no one bothers to read where it says that nudity is explicity forbidden?"

It's the part where they say they can fuck with you any way they want any time they want and you can't do anything about it. Pretty much covers everything.

Uncensor ALL the BOOBS ! ;)

Is it boobies, or just nipples that they have a problem with? I have some Alice screenshots on my profile of Asian porcelain statues (sans nipples) but either Steam doesn't care or nobody has reported them as inappropriate yet. I would find it strange if they did moderate them since the screenshots are from a game that they themselves sell, but then stranger things have happened. How is it that ultra-violence is ok in a game (blowing someone's head off with blood spraying everywhere) but a boobie is somehow evil? I'd much rather that my hypothetical children not be afraid or ashamed of a human body than to think that killing people is perfectly normal, even though it still is only "cartoon" violence.

yeah i got this ban too form steam and i still dunno why is so offensive http://i.imgur.com/N2mYW.jpg. yet a headshot in a npc with lots of blood is allowed

Someone hasn't checked the Duke Nukem Forever hub...

Americans.

I think the best solution is to put your screenshots as friend only, and also make possible for users to put an age check on the screenshots when they upload it, as it would make it pleasant for everyone, as you would be advised that the content can be unpleasant for someone (adding what it contains in the warning would be also a good idea, like saying nudity or something like that).

Still let's not be cinnical here, nudity is natural (we born naked, I suppose everyone know that) and sex is also natural (You know, any animals out there have a way of mating, so we have it too). What I would consider can be innapropiate for any minor is the full context of the picture, like something that can make look a woman or men like just toys and not people. For example, a woman/man swimming naked on a lake shouldn't be flagged, but a men/women dancing on a strip club while the opposite sex is giving it money would be.

I hope I have made myself clear in that point. That said, violence is gross by nature, as anyone with a little empathy will feel bad if it looks to a dead animal or lots of blood, in the real life of course. Still for me in the videogames it isn't the same, as I already know it is digital and nobody is getting really harmed. Still, if a kid isn't taught this then I think the best would be flag the image and then only who think can tolerate it would see it.

Nothing more, nothing less, at leastt this is my humble opinion ^^.

Society is messed up

Because Valve is American company. And American "society laws" are quite clear - you can kill, torture, maim, but don't you dare show a nipple.

Attitudes to nudity in some countries are utterly bizarre, and to be perfectly honest, ridiculous. European society has hardly crumbled because a lot of women choose to go topless on their beaches. The children don't give a damn either.

Ahh... Another one of these pointless threads! It's useless to discuss such a thing, we'll get nothing out of it and nobody agrees with each other! I say "Tomeyto" you say "Tomaato!

On the question as to why nudity is "banned" and violence isn't... well: Because if violence was banned, then they wouldn't have anything to blame the next time a shooting starts. When rape is involved it's much easier- just say the guy is the guilty one and you're done with it. With mass-murder they need a better victim than the guy who is already dead. So then they can say how it's video games' fault.
Yeah, that was just a very cruel joke. Sorry, still pissed of at the stupidity of the last time they blamed games. ^_^

Still makes sense when you think about it but I don't wouldn't give them credit on thinking that far ahead. :D

The illogical nature of human culture, you can't post pictures of a pixelated nipple, but feel free to post a guy who has just killed 24 guys on a single round with just a hacksaw.

It's because society has become desensitized to killing and death, but for people like me, you grew up knowing nudity and pornography is wrong. I kind of agree with them removing the content, but if they changed it to where it becomes flagged as inappropriate and has some kind of lock or potential spoiler type thing on it, or even make some accounts not allowed to see it (I would make mine one of them, I don't want to see nude people in a game).

Because girls are the root of all evil

Okay, you want a serious answer about sex vs. violence, and their relative acceptability in publicly available media?

They both bring up powerful emotions that make people uncomfortable. In fact, in some regards, they tap into the same emotive wellspring. Since the advent of civilization, violence has become increasingly unnecessary, though sex is still required. Whether people have an innate desire to participate in violence, or whether only some of them do, or if they don't is a largely trivial (and academic) subject. The obvious fact is that most civilized people will rarely, if ever, initiate violence without a good reason. They still need no encouragement to have sex, though. Violence being still necessary for some things, most notably in that forceful pursuit of international politics called war, civilization has incentivized violence with things like nationalism and religious devotion. Consequently, violence has been given a privileged and accepted place in the public eye, while sex has remained largely swept under the rug to avoid embarrassing questions and powerful feelings.

TL;DR: If you had to reward people to get them to fuck, it would be publicly accepted too.

American logic. Mindless shooting is fine, but as soon as they see a boob or an ass... DAMN!! OMG DE VIDEOGAMEZ R SO BAD, BAN DEM ALL

Seriously, I just hate that crap. We can see explicit violence in movies and games, but not a single tit or nipple, that's too outrageous for those moral fags.