[pueblito]

> As porn star Cherie DeVille explains, the story is, and has been, a lot weirder than that. Because Visa and Mastercard hold effective duopoly status all over the world — controlling 98% of credit transactions in the U.K., 80% in the E.U., and over 70% in the U.S. — no porn performer can afford to cross the rules for acceptable content the two companies have laid down. And those rules are beyond strange.

“Women are allowed to squirt, but we’re not allowed to urinate,” DeVille says. “We can’t insert our panties into our vaginas anymore, because that’s an object. I tried to use a carrot-shaped dildo. That’s a problem because that’s an object, too, but a phallic-shaped dildo is apparently okay.” She shakes her head in amazement. “The rules are completely nonsensical.”

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-cherie-devil...

[nsajko]

Relevant sub-thread from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24297406

"Fantastical" quote from the above:

> > Our banking partners recently notified us that they are no longer willing to support the sales of realistic sex toys. I understand that your products were designed to depict the body parts of mythological and fantastical creatures, and we have indicated this to our banking partners in an effort to advocate for continuing to support your business here on Stripe. As a result of these discussions, our banking partners have agreed that they are willing to continue supporting your business as long as you are not selling products that are colored such that they might be mistaken for human flesh.

[nicbou]

That meeting must have looked like a Monty Python sketch

[pixxel]

Forgive me, but I’m sat here wondering what “squirt” is in reference too. I don’t wish to google it. Diarrhoea related? So women can defacate but not urinate?

[nsajko]

Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation

Note that both male and female ejaculation may be faked in a porn movie.

[aasasd]

More to the point, squirting in porn is pretty much guaranteed to be urination, simply due to the volume and strength of ‘gushing’ involved.

[JamesBarney]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation

[Mountain_Skies]

Female ejaculation. There doesn't seem to be a consensus on if it is it's own fluid or just spontaneous urination.

[pcthrowaway]

My understanding is that the majority of the time it happens in porn, it's actually urination (but legally they might not be able to say that either)