Hey, that’s a clever title. I wonder if it’s relevant?
You know what the government and the feminazis always like to tell us about pr0n? How its run by organized crime, and how, any investment in masturbatory aids is just giving money to evil. How, sinc 9/11, porn (like other immoral activity) is aiding terrorism.
Well, once upon a time there was an interesting website called insex.com. Founded in 1995, it was certainly an ‘acquired’ taste. Featuring as it did the most extreme S&M. All consensual, but sometimes closer to endurance experience or Metzger style performance art than to anything sexual. Even I, who take an especial interest in pain and violence being inflicted on human beings, found it more ‘interesting’ than erotic.
Late last year, the owner was forced to sell. Prurience? Moral Majority? No. As he explains here, changes in the US banking regulations thanks to the Patriot Act. Warning banks and credit card companies that processing payments for adult websites was likely to be aiding money laundering for terrorism, the banks were forced to close the accounts down.
Very clever, if an interesting by-product of the war on terror. The corollary is obvious though. As the US porn industry shut down (at least in its more extreme variants), it relocated its bank accounts off-shore. To Russia. To the Ukraine. Yes, to all those countries where there is no adherence to money-laundering legislation. So well done Mr Bush and the crazy Republican right. You’ve brought into being the very problem you set out to tackle.