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throwaway239571213 karma

The porn industry is very exploitative in general. It's gotten much much better in recent years, but it's virtually impossible for someone to make a living doing porn unless they're a famous personality.

$33/hr. sounds like a lot, but you have to realize that the shoots are only for a few hours and you can't really do one shoot per day. A lot of these actors wind up taking home in a month barely more than what a minimum wage worker would make in the same month. On top of that, doing porn pretty much ruins your chances at a career anywhere outside of porn, which means that there isn't any reason to pay the actors more because they can't leave.

throwaway23957234 karma

Most payment processors will not service porn companies or, if they do, they charge much higher fees. The porn industry is rife with fraud and illegal practices, and that can cause legal problems for the payment processor when they blow up. Additionally, chargebacks are extremely frequent for anything having to do with porn. This is due partially to the fraudulent billing practices but is also due to the customers themselves as well. Lots of customers (almost all men) will buy porn, cum, regret their purchase (especially if it's a purchase that charges an obscene fee per minute or something and the bill winds up being hundreds or thousands of dollars), and then chargeback. Or a husband will buy porn, his wife will see it on the bill at the end of the month, he'll panic, and chargeback. Because this is all done online, there's no signature slip and an "e-signature" where you just type your name into the box is so hilariously easy to forge that there's no chance of the business disputing the chargeback.

TL;DR: Payment processors like Visa, etc. don't give a shit if you sell porn per se, they care about your business not resulting in lots of fraudulent transactions and chargebacks.

throwaway23957170 karma

And the stigma doesn't go away, either. So you can easily be in a position where you're too old to do porn but still can't get a job outside of porn because you used to do porn. It puts a lot of people in a horrible position.

throwaway2395758 karma

How does any of this reduce police response time, which is the real issue here?

throwaway2395742 karma

Yeah, no shit. I feel like everyone here is taking crazy pills. "I stopped cleaning my hair and now it smells bad. Whatever should I do?" Uhhh... I don't know, maybe wash your fucking hair?