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This has been happening quietly for a long time. It exploded now because it crept into new segments like Steam. That is mostly driven by a few conservative groups applying pressure to credit card processors.

You won't find porn sites with certain content; in particular, blood or scat play. Now, neither one is to my personal liking, but I don't think it should be blocked as long as everyone involved consents. You might find amateur videos of it, but never anything from a professional studio. That is quite simply because credit card processors forbid it.

(My source is one of the interviews that Kink.com does before a scene, which they always leave in the edit they post to their pay site. I'd have to search a lot to find the specific one. Suffice it to say that one of the models mentioned "no scat" as a hard limit, and the director said that their payment processor wouldn't allow it, anyway.)

It's also impossible to remake the old Taboo series as is. Faux-incest scenes go out of their way to mention they're all a step family (seriously, how many step children does Cory Chase have? This doesn't seem physically possible.) This is all credit card industry pressure, as well, and while I wish the genre wasn't as prevalent as it is, the setup dialog gets really silly and contorted because of this restriction.

Trying to see what they can get away with. Can I control other things too? I was allowd to dictate how people spend their money here, so why not there?

Probably to make more money

I feel like one huge thing that’s been missed in here in all this outrage is that it wasn’t just “porn games” that were removed from sale - they were, from what I saw, extreme and sick ones like “rape simulators”, “incest simulators”, and pedophile sex games, where you seduce and rape young children……..

As someone against censorship in all forms I disagree with what they’ve done, but as a rational person….. if there was ever something that should be censored (or made illegal more like it), it’s probably this.

It's all in in black and white in Project 2025.

Ban porn > Categorize LGBT as Porn > LGBT is crime > LGBT in prison

Religious zealots and bigots were given the reigns. This is what we get.

Regarding payment processing specifically, they are under direct pressure from religious lobbyists and are folding like a cheap suit.

Project 2025. They literally bragged about the shit they wanted to do while claiming they had nothing to do with it.

It baffles me that people are surprised this is happening, but a large majority of the voting population either doesn't care or are ok with this.

The only reason these companies would turn down money is if the cost of not doing that was greater. The only reason for that would be a tyrannical government threatening them. The only reason for that would be religious zealots at the helm of the tyrannical government.