A warning about payment processors
Ah, the wonderful world of sex work. Everywhere women try to make money, there’s someone trying to stop them.
Today’s focus: Stripe, and indirectly, Throne, and maybe Buy Me a Coffee.
If you’ve been on Twitter (don’t @ me, I’m never gonna call it X) or Reddit this week, you’ve heard about SW accounts on Throne being warned or removed for being, well, sex worker accounts. Also, there have been a few account deletion reports about Buy Me a Coffee, which is not a great platform for sex workers to use, but some do.
It was fairly common in the past for findommes to use Throne as their wishlist, while using Wishtender to process cash offerings. When Wishtender died its final death this year, the obvious solution was to use the cash gifts option on Throne as a replacement.
Sounds good on paper, but Throne uses Stripe as their payment processor. And Stripe just hates adult content, sex workers, and making money, I guess. They’re the folks who revoked Wishtender’s ability to take payments, from which they never recovered. And now, it looks like they’re going the same direction with Throne, and possibly Buy Me a Coffee.
Let’s face it: Stripe doesn’t want us. If Throne goes under, as I suspect it will, the solution is not to sign up for another site that uses Stripe as their payment processor. (I’m looking at you, Tributify and GoWishMe.) Honestly, it’s to avoid Stripe like the plague, and stick to sites that offer another option, and advertise they are safe for adult content.
And I say that as someone who gets paid here on Substack via Stripe…
Be careful with who you allow to accept your money, dommes.