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The hysterical (and hypocritical) extremism concerning nudity is an US-american thing. Hopefully the domination of that 'culture' will timely fade away.

• filoleg 3y ago
  It isn’t some cultural/moral US problem, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with puritanism. It is a universal “i was in the moment and paid for a sub to a porn website, but the day after I regretted that decision and decided to make a payment chargeback/reversal and claim fraud” problem. Which is what leads to payment processors (Visa/MasterCard/Amex/etc.) designating adult-content providers as high-risk businesses, as each chargeback has a cost associated with it. And a good number of payment processors decided it wasn’t worth it to deal with them due to that. If this was a uniquely US problem, then payment processors providing services outside of the US would have no issues with working with, let’s say, EU-only adult-content providers. However, something is telling me that Visa/MasterCard absolutely don’t care about the locality of service of any given adult-content provider, and neither do they care about any of the moral decisions here. It is all about the bottom line and the cost of doing business. Hell, payment processors never even claimed any moral ground for refusing to work with adult-content providers, which would make sense for them to grandstand on for the boost in their public image, if the whole thing was truly due to some puritanism culture around nudity in the US. But nope, payment processors claimed as much that it all boils down to the cost of doing business with adult-content providers due to high chargeback rates.
  • mharig 3y ago
    E.g. in 2021 Visa, Master, Amex put pressure on OnlyFans to discontinue its video content. Search for 'war on porn'.