It might depend on the organization. I can imagine that DoS or even DoE might be a little more lenient than DoJ or DoD. I never had to do a full lifestyle poly but the whole process kind of nauseated me and very much felt like it was a cis-het-vanilla gatekeeping process.
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I guess these people never heard of Betamax vs VHS.
Jokes aside, The really nefarious part of this development is not what OnlyFans is doing but why they are doing it. They are not responding to the market, they are bowing down to the desires of the payment processors. Now we have Visa, MasterCard, and Pay Pal deciding what is and is not acceptable for us to do with our money. This started with them refusing to process donations to Wikileaks and now down the slippery slope we go.
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In what may be a related story, Dairy Queen announced it will be banning ice cream from its menu.
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If you want a truly content neutral payment processor, I’m all for that. Just don’t complain when they allow Alex Jones and gun stores, OK?
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Paradoxically, a society that is not embarassed or closeted could not be so intensely focused on watching others or looking for sex outside of themselves.
Shame and fear enhance excitement, but not in any sustainable way.
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Which kind of makes my point about the blackmailability of people’s sexual preferences. Although it does strike me as shading towards victim blaming of people that have been blackmailed for legal activities.
Speak for yourself, but when I look for sex, someone else is usually involved.
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I wonder why they didn’t just peel off the that part of the concern and sell it as a separate business unit.
How will they do that without payment processors?
Any site with adult content from contributors is open to the puritan hammer of child porn or sex trafficking accusations, even if they have a solid policy and enforce it as much as humanly possible. One slip (or maybe an engineered one) and the Dominionists will start a “Think of the children!” cancel campaign. It doesn’t have to be true, because they really just want the site shut down, and the payment processors are the weakest link.
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I saw this thread too. Completely plausible as Christian Sharia Law sweeps the nation.
Where’s all the right wingers protesting Big Money (payment processors) and government overreach (SOPA/PIPA) hurting businesses? 
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Ends are only about 30% of their business.
Yep.
I had to run through ‘some form’ of background check (probably a step up from the NICS check for getting a firearm, or some such) as part of getting a license in order to work for my current employer; while it’s nowhere near as extensive as getting a SECRET clearance, they did pull federal background checks to see if I was entangled with any organized crime or whatnot.
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I have not seen any mention of American Express in all this. Are they going to become the preferred card of sexual content or did the already distance themselves?
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Porn and video streams are defacto solo sexual activities (with some exception for the pedants out there).
The opposite of sex with someone else, by design.
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The latter.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/business/mastercard-visa-discover-pornhub/index.html
American Express (AXP) has prohibited its cards from being accepted on Pornhub as part of a longstanding policy on “digital adult content sites.”
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I am sure at some point there will be a sort of RedLightFansXXX service where both users and producers pay just a little extra more to see what they like. Am I right?
There are also NSFW contributors on OnlyFans, who are not sex workers, who face ejection (having already been forced off Tumblr, YouTube, Patreon, Instagram etc., etc.).
What I find ironic is that OnlyFans is ending the sex work which is relatively transactional to concentrate on what I consider the harmful part of the site - the monetization of parasocial relationships.
Of course with regard to that, by sheer volume, there’s probably a lot more harm (to both provider and customer) to be found in the para-social influencer culture of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitch.
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine Rachel Dolezal stamping on a human face - forever.
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