[FreeHugs]

    Wyre Payments, the company’s upstream payment
    processor, terminated SpankPay’s account because
    Wyre’s new payment processor, Checkout.com
    doesn’t allow processing for payments related
    to sexual businesses

SpankPay, Wyre, Checkoutcom ... How does this all work? What does the person who wants to pay a sex worker via SpankPay do? Do they use their usual Visa credit card or is the process different?

[adrr]

you change the laws in banking so the risk is much lower to financial companies. Sex work intertwined with trafficking and no company wants to take financial risk. Chase is in the headlines for getting sued for facilitating trafficking.