[kalms]

Seriously? Sexually-oriented services excludes a lot of legitimate, serious businesses. Seems fairly simple minded to me, but maybe that's the European in me speaking.

[tommoor]

I'm sure it's a fraud / charge-back thing.. If you want to run 'riskier' businesses then you need your own merchant account. Although I agree i'm sure there are a few relatively straight-laced buisnesses that unwittingly end up in that bucket!

[kalms]

It makes sense, still.. Smells like censorship, when they put it in writing like that.

[superuser2]

It's not puritanism so much as risk management.

Spouse sees credit card charge for something sexual, questions it. Consumer is backed in do a corner. What do they do? Chargeback.