“We lost probably 16 bank accounts this year,” Rios told Vice. The company felt it had been left with no other option, though. And as with this summer’s OnlyFans debacle, it leaves creators not just without money, but without community, too.ĪVN Stars very much understands that it’s letting its users down. Nothing to do but quit - The discontinuation of payment on AVN Stars essentially renders it useless to sex workers. On the internet, though - just as in the real world - money is often more powerful than the law. Online sex work is entirely legal in the U.S. Pornhub, too, was brought to its knees by swift action taken by companies like Visa and Mastercard. Even OnlyFans, one of the most popular amateur porn sites in the world, has not been immune the company briefly banned explicit pornography earlier this year after facing overwhelming pressure from banks and payment processors. This is by now an intimately familiar problem for the internet porn industry. “We have had numerous corporate accounts shuttered in the past year alone.” “Unfortunately, AVN and GayVN Stars has not been immune to the banking discrimination that so many of our industry friends have also encountered recently,” CEO Tony Rios said. A porn site called AVN Stars has announced it will cease all payments to sex workers using its platform at the end of the year, citing “banking discrimination.” Both AVN and GayVN will still operate after December 31, but creators will not be allowed to monetize any of their content.

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