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Originally Posted by Elfwreck;1999272
I assure you that no credit card company allows necrophilia but not bestiality, and they don't allow explicit rapes in murder mysteries but not in romance stories. Nor do any of them have numbers indicating that ebooks of *any* sort are prone to high chargebacks. (I've been researching alternate payment systems for a while now.)
The specific form of this ban comes from PayPal, not the credit card companies, and shows both conflation of fiction to reality (implying that fiction about incest is somehow illegal, and so on) and a lack of comprehension of the variety of tropes and literary styles used in fiction.
PayPal is essentially pushing the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws"
Comstock Act[/URL] on its clients. Since it's not being done by a gov't agency, it's entirely legal--but it's the same kind of attempt to control morality by controlling distribution of "questionable" materials.
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You were right and I was wrong, this prohibition is entirely PayPal's doing:
https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2012/0...rtain-erotica/