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It's because of a thing called "high-risk transactions." Your wife looks at your credit card report and sees porn on it, you try to cover your ass by claiming your card was used fraudulently when it wasn't. That costs the company money, so a lot of them will either refuse to work with porn sites altogether, or will charge the site much higher fees to cover the risk. It's basic capitalism: Companies do whatever gives them the most profit, regardless of the damage it does to society.Wait, so paypal is the reason incest got banned? I always assumed that patreon was behind all this because, well, it would at least make sense. Why the hell would paypal suddenly care if people use their system to pay for incest game?
This is a really common pattern with online platforms: Sex workers (and porn artists are a type of sex worker) make the platform big, then we all get culled off both to gain respectability and to get cooperation with payment companies. Bans on more extreme fetishes come first, but trust me, outright removals of all sexual content from patreon is gonna happen eventually.