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Fetlife log3/12/2024 ![]() "Due to recent events, FetLife is being persecuted by people who don't understand us. "Kink is usually the first target," Susan Wright of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom writes in support of FetLife in a blog post. It seems that FetLife has been caught up in a global anti-kink morality panic. Trump's choice for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, wants to revive the defunct Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and attack adult pornographers with Orwellian verve and McCarthy-era vigor. In the UK, the Digital Economy Bill criminalizes a range of consensual adult practices and puts small-scale feminist pornographers out of business. Recent months have seen a concerted attack on the global kink community. Baku said that FetLife received a notification that one of their merchant accounts was being shut down. Alongside ad sales, the website is dependent on the revenue from these credit card payments to stay operational-revenue that is processed using a merchant account. On FetLife, members pay to access premium features on the website. Founder John Baku explained in an apologetic and occasionally rambling blog post that the site was forced to delete hundreds of groups and thousands of fetishes in order to maintain their merchant accounts. The site has been invite-only since July 2016, but FetLife's new decision to self-censor has been motivated by financial necessity. Read more: How to Get the Kind of Rough Sex You Want Strip either out, and there's not a whole lot left. The BDSM scene is premised on consensual non-consent it's one of their core beliefs, just like how modern-day Republicanism is based on a rabid hatred of female bodily autonomy. Banning the latter from FetLife deals a body blow to the kink community who flock to the site.
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