Banned! THESE ‘Sugar Daddy’ apps have been removed from the Google Play Store due to their sexual content

Google Play has decided to ban apps that promote ‘sugar dating’ or ‘compensated sexual relationships’ from their platform. This ban will go into effect on September 1st, and the Google app store will ‘prohibit facilitating’ sugar-daddy apps as part of its new sexual content restrictions.

The ban on apps dealing with “compensated sexual relationships,” or simply sugar dating, was announced in a post on the Google Play Console support website.

Sugar dating refers to friendships or relationships in which an older wealthy man gives money to young girls in exchange for ‘typically sexual’ favours.

According to a BBC report, journalists discovered several apps that explicitly promote sugar dating, with a few of them having thousands of instals. This announcement follows the passage of legislation in the United States that prohibits all sexual content.

“As a platform, we are always excited to support our developer partners, but we also work hard to ensure that users have a safe experience. Following feedback from NGOs, governments, and other user advocacy groups concerned with user safety, we updated our inappropriate content policy to prohibit apps that facilitate sexual acts in exchange for compensation. This brings our policies in line with other Google policies and industry standards,” Google told Android Police.

Aside from that, Google has implemented new policies that will close accounts of inactive and abandoned developers who have not used their services for more than a year. Other changes include a developer preview of the app set ID for analytics or fraud prevention, as well as a revised User Data policy that prohibits ‘linking persistent device identifiers to personal and sensitive user data.’