Anti-porn crusaders and squeamish financial companies are coming for kinky gamers.
Once upon a time, this unholy collaboration seemed content targeting actual porn (something I wrote a Reason cover story on in 2022, if you want a deep dive). But as all good observers of the war on sex work know, things that start off under the auspices of targeting porn and prostitution—or protecting children from them—end up affecting things tinged with even a hint of sexuality, and sometimes things that aren't even related to sex at all.
Now we seem to have reached a new frontier in this crusade. Not only is content featuring real, human performers being targeted, but payment processors are getting fussy about artwork, animation, and AI-generated imagery, too.
