Why Wix and Squarespace Will Delete Your Escort Website (And What to Do Instead)

The story always goes the same way

You find a pretty template. You spend a weekend — or let's be honest, probably two weeks — getting everything perfect. The photos are cropped just right. The colours match your brand. You've agonised over whether to use "companion" or "escort" in your bio. The gallery is chef's kiss.

Then one morning, your website is just... gone. No warning. No "your content is under review." Just a login page that says your account has been suspended.

And here's the part that really guts you: you can't access your site. You can't download your photos. You can't export your text. You can't even see what it looked like. Everything you built is behind a locked door, and nobody is answering.

I've talked to at least a dozen girls this has happened to. The platforms are always the same: Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, or GoDaddy's website builder. The story is always the same. And they always wish they'd known beforehand.

So here's me telling you beforehand.

The platforms that will ban you

Let me be extremely specific so there's no ambiguity:

Wix

From their Terms of Use: sites may not contain content related to "escort services" or "adult-oriented content." They actively scan for keywords and will suspend your account without warning. Their support team is notoriously unhelpful once a ban is in place.

Squarespace

Their Acceptable Use Policy prohibits "adult exploitation" and "sexually explicit material." In practice, they interpret this broadly enough to catch escort websites even without explicit content. A rates page, a booking form, or even euphemistic language about "companionship services" can trigger a ban.

Weebly

Owned by Square (the payment company that also bans escorts). Their TOS bans "adult content and services." Same story.

GoDaddy

Both their website builder and their hosting service have restrictive policies. Their hosting TOS is more permissive than their website builder, but enforcement is inconsistent.

WordPress.com

Not to be confused with WordPress.org (the open-source software). WordPress.com — the hosted version — bans adult content. WordPress.org, which you install on your own hosting, has no such restriction because there's no central authority to enforce one.

You can verify any platform's policies yourself with our TOS Risk Checker.

Why they do this

The short version: FOSTA-SESTA. The US law that made platforms liable for content that could be construed as facilitating sex work. Every American tech company responded with blanket bans.

The longer version: even without FOSTA-SESTA, these platforms have always been squeamish about adult content. Payment processors (Visa, Mastercard) put pressure on platforms. Advertisers don't want to be associated with adult services. And morality-based content policies are easy to write but impossible to enforce fairly — so they just ban everything.

What you actually lose

When a website builder bans you, you lose:

• Your website — obviously. Every page, every photo, every word of copy
• Your domain (sometimes) — if you registered your domain through the same platform, they can hold it hostage. Always register domains separately
• Your SEO — any Google ranking you've built is tied to that URL structure. Even if you rebuild, you start from zero
• Your booking links — any link you've shared on ads, socials, or directories is dead
• Your professional image — a "this site has been suspended" page doesn't exactly scream "high-end companion"
• Your data — form submissions, analytics, client interactions, all gone

The WordPress.org difference

I need to hammer this home because it confuses people every single time:

WordPress.com = hosted service, run by Automattic, they control your content, they can ban you. BAD for escorts.

WordPress.org = free, open-source software you download and install on your own hosting. Nobody controls it. Nobody can ban you. You own everything. GOOD for escorts.

WordPress.org powers about 40% of all websites on the internet. It's mature, it's flexible, and there's a massive ecosystem of themes and plugins. The only catch is you need hosting — but that's actually the point. When you control the hosting, you control the website.

For a detailed guide on setting this up, read my post on how to build an escort website in 2026.

The theme problem

So you go with WordPress.org. Great. Now you need a theme. And this is where things get... mid.

Most WordPress themes were designed for restaurants, law firms, fitness coaches, and "creative agencies." Finding one that works for an escort website means either:

1. Forcing a generic theme into a shape it wasn't built for — removing features you don't need, hacking in features you do (rates page, gallery, booking form), and accepting a result that looks... okay
2. Hiring a developer to build a custom theme — $2,000 to $5,000 and several weeks of back-and-forth
3. Using a page builder like Elementor or Divi — powerful but overwhelming, and the results often feel bloated and slow

None of these are great options, which is exactly why we built BlushTheme.

BlushTheme: the free alternative

BlushTheme is a WordPress theme designed from the ground up for escorts. Five curated sub-themes (Opulence, Rosé, Mono, Noir, Exotic), 10 purpose-built pages, a setup wizard, and features like age verification and optimised galleries built in.

It's free and it's designed to look like you paid a designer for it. No page builder bloat, no generic template hackery, no developer needed.

Hosting that won't stab you in the back

Even with WordPress.org, you need hosting that tolerates adult content. Some recommendations:

• Infomaniak (Swiss) — strong privacy protections, fair use policies, no content policing
• Greenhost (Dutch) — privacy-focused, powered by renewable energy
• OrangeWebsite (Icelandic) — proudly pro-free-speech hosting
• Hetzner (German) — affordable VPS hosting, they care about server abuse not content
• DigitalOcean — generally fine for VPS hosting, less intrusive than shared hosting providers

Avoid: GoDaddy hosting, Bluehost, HostGator, SiteGround (US-based, content-restrictive to varying degrees).

The migration plan (if you're currently on Wix/Squarespace)

If you're reading this and currently have a live site on a risky platform, here's your migration plan:

Today

1. Export everything you can. Squarespace has an export tool (Settings → Advanced → Import/Export). Wix has a more limited export. Download all your images manually — don't trust the export to capture everything
2. Copy all your text content into a document. Every page, every bio, every rates description
3. Save your current domain settings — DNS records, domain registrar info

This week

1. Set up WordPress on privacy-friendly hosting
2. Install BlushTheme or your chosen theme
3. Rebuild your pages using your exported content
4. Transfer your domain to point to the new host (or register a new domain if yours is trapped)

Once you're live

1. Set up redirects if possible (301 redirects from old URLs to new ones preserve some SEO value)
2. Update your links everywhere — ads, directories, social profiles
3. Cancel your Wix/Squarespace subscription
4. Breathe

Don't wait for the ban

I cannot stress this enough: if you're on Wix, Squarespace, or any platform that bans adult content, you are on borrowed time. It's not a question of if they'll ban you. It's a question of when.

Migrate now, on your own terms, with your data intact. Don't wait until you wake up to that suspension email and have to start from scratch.

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Migrating your site and need help? Our contact page is open. Also check out BlushTheme if you want a WordPress theme that actually looks good for this industry.