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> My basis for that is that virtually anything sex related, apart from toys, cannot be purchased with credit or debit cards. Most porn can be bought with credi

> My basis for that is that virtually anything sex related, apart from toys, cannot be purchased with credit or debit cards. Most porn can be bought with credit cards, at least in the USA. Mainstream payment processing companies like stripe may not be willing to do it but if you go try to buy (legal) porn right now with a credit card you will be able to do it.

kodah 6y ago
Sort of! I remember this being discussed a number of years ago: https://fetlife.com/help/can-i-use-a-credit-card-to-support-fetlife https://fetlife.com/help/can-i-use-a-credit-card-to-support-... You could argue the merits of the website (I am not a member) but at the end of the day if you can only use BitCoin or a bank account then the policies have failed businesses, consumers, and content creators. I don't know where the lines lie for decency in credit card payments or what they consider acceptable risk, but I would point back to my original assertion. If you cannot pay the best coders, the best business people, then those worries will not be solved.
- gizmo686 6y ago
  They support credit cards again. Although they had to tighten their content guidelines to meet non-existant requirements. > Over the last decade, I've spoken to easily over a hundred people in both the financial and adult industries, and asked them for a copy of the official content rules. Everyone says they've heard that there are rules, but nobody seems to have seen them or can even get their hands on them! https://fetlife.com/groups/311/posts/15046791 https://fetlife.com/groups/311/posts/15046791 (No login wall) https://pastebin.com/FK6Z7gMf https://pastebin.com/FK6Z7gMf I just checked their payment page and as of today, they accept credit cards.
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sn_master 6y ago
A lot of working girls accept credit cards with "discreet billing" (IT/Computer services etc), and almost all accept Venmo/Square Cash/PayPal, all of which get filled by credit or debit cards. Some even refuse to set an appointment without paying a deposit online.
stevenicr 6y ago
There's a spectrum with this.. some banks will allow CC processing for a porn biz.. some get creative with how they label things... some will even get into details about types of content maybe.. but it's not as easy as mainstream, and often much more expensive to process and in some cases to even sign up. Last I looked into ccBill - they were collecting an extra 2 grand up front payment to enable process mastercard. These systems are taking advantage of niche classes imho. There is also the threat of getting deplatformed / de-processed? quickly because bad PR - something that a local hardware store would not be worried about. It's harder to find places to work with you, it's more expensive, and easier to loose your ability to get paid. Sometimes there are things like operation chokepoint that try to make it near impossible for a small independent operator to go out on her own.

kodah 6y ago

Sort of! I remember this being discussed a number of years ago: https://fetlife.com/help/can-i-use-a-credit-card-to-support-fetlife https://fetlife.com/help/can-i-use-a-credit-card-to-support-... You could argue the merits of the website (I am not a member) but at the end of the day if you can only use BitCoin or a bank account then the policies have failed businesses, consumers, and content creators. I don't know where the lines lie for decency in credit card payments or what they consider acceptable risk, but I would point back to my original assertion. If you cannot pay the best coders, the best business people, then those worries will not be solved.

gizmo686 6y ago
They support credit cards again. Although they had to tighten their content guidelines to meet non-existant requirements. > Over the last decade, I've spoken to easily over a hundred people in both the financial and adult industries, and asked them for a copy of the official content rules. Everyone says they've heard that there are rules, but nobody seems to have seen them or can even get their hands on them! https://fetlife.com/groups/311/posts/15046791 https://fetlife.com/groups/311/posts/15046791 (No login wall) https://pastebin.com/FK6Z7gMf https://pastebin.com/FK6Z7gMf I just checked their payment page and as of today, they accept credit cards.

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sn_master 6y ago

A lot of working girls accept credit cards with "discreet billing" (IT/Computer services etc), and almost all accept Venmo/Square Cash/PayPal, all of which get filled by credit or debit cards. Some even refuse to set an appointment without paying a deposit online.

stevenicr 6y ago

There's a spectrum with this.. some banks will allow CC processing for a porn biz.. some get creative with how they label things... some will even get into details about types of content maybe.. but it's not as easy as mainstream, and often much more expensive to process and in some cases to even sign up. Last I looked into ccBill - they were collecting an extra 2 grand up front payment to enable process mastercard. These systems are taking advantage of niche classes imho. There is also the threat of getting deplatformed / de-processed? quickly because bad PR - something that a local hardware store would not be worried about. It's harder to find places to work with you, it's more expensive, and easier to loose your ability to get paid. Sometimes there are things like operation chokepoint that try to make it near impossible for a small independent operator to go out on her own.