Why did tickling producers change 'mother' to 'step-mother' in clip descriptions?

On the clips4sale pages of Frenchtickling, UKTickling and Tickle Abuse 2, they have changed 'mother' to 'step-mother' in their clip descriptions. Why did they do this?

We had too. Clips4sales banks required key word changes to not fall under their rules and be removed. Its annoying.

"They" didn't. Clips4Sale did it site-wide for the reasons Tickle Room stated.

Boy am I fed up with this. Every online platform is doing stuff like this, and not just for fetish stuff. If the things you say and/or the words you use to describe something don't conform to the viewpoints of those who run the major tech companies, you are de-platformed and/or de-monetized. I see so many YouTube videos now where the presenter can't even quote directly from a news article without changing certain words.

This is a deep problem, but it's not because of "the viewpoints of those who run the major tech companies".

Youtube is scared of advertisers and govs, and C4S is scared of USA Epay (or whatever stupid and incompetent payment gateway they use now).

If you build a business that's independant, and you have nothing to fear, you can just be normal.

All adult businesses have trouble with credit card companies too - they're always in danger of having the rug pulled out from under them and they're very vulnerable to whatever those companies are willing to consider "acceptable."

kingmaker said:

This is a deep problem, but it's not because of "the viewpoints of those who run the major tech companies".

Youtube is scared of advertisers and govs, and C4S is scared of USA Epay (or whatever stupid and incompetent payment gateway they use now).

If you build a business that's independant, and you have nothing to fear, you can just be normal.

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TMF Jeff said:

All adult businesses have trouble with credit card companies too - they're always in danger of having the rug pulled out from under them and they're very vulnerable to whatever those companies are willing to consider "acceptable."

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Sadly, it's the impact of social media culture and the current trend of people using online pressure to try and sanitise anything and everything they find vaguely offensive. The result is that all major companies are fearful of finding themselves on the wrong side of whatever is considered acceptable this week, meaning they will cut ties in a heartbeat to preserve their image. It's the same as the way that TV and movie production companies will now ditch major productions/directors/actors the very second that Twitter deems something they've said or done is unacceptable.

The sex industry is under scrutiny from all sides in the current climate - trends in political correctness culture tend to view a lot of porn themes as 'problematic', whilst conservative governments are under constant pressure to sideline pornography and make it less visible. The result is that banks and financial companies are uncomfortable dealing with the industry despite the fact that it generates a vast amount of money - and so they apply terms. Companies like C4S rely on the services of the banking sector because they are gigantic and have to process an enormous number of payments. The banks then constantly change or update their rules depending on what is in or out of favour. In this case they've decided that mother and daughter themed clips are no longer acceptable across the board (even where nothing sexual is happening), but at the same time they've un-banned previously excluded terms including 'teen' and 'teenager' amongst others.

They've also decided that 'hypnotism' themed clips are not ok anymore, even where it is clearly role-play fantasy. Similarly, chloroform or any kind of 'knocking the person out' type of fantasy scenario, has long been banned also. Basically, certain fantasies are currently unfashionable and so they are banned instantly until such time that the world moves on to other things. The step-mother/step-daughter thing is particularly annoying for me because all of the mothers and daughters in my clips are actually real-life mothers and daughters! When the change was implemented, C4S automatically changed every clip description, title and keyword on the site to reflect it. Hopefully some marginally offended group within society can now sleep easier knowing that these harmless fantasies are not being acted out (or at least being described).

It's a shame that the world works this way nowadays but C4S itself has no choice. They serve millions of customers and tens of thousands of producers so they need banks to work with them. Non-US based producers felt the impact of this just a few years ago when one of the banks used by C4S suddenly got cold feet and cut ties with them, meaning they couldn't process most of their international payments until they found another company to work with. Our payments were delayed for weeks as a result and we had no idea when it would be resolved.

We see a lot of "limp fetish" or "sleepy feet" content tho

kingmaker said:

We see a lot of "limp fetish" or "sleepy feet" content tho

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From what I can recall the most recent ban included descriptions of anything sleep-related too. You can't even have a scenario where a model has their feet touched, tickled or played with while they pretend to sleep, for example. Basically, everything is seen as sexual assault, even though it is clearly fantasy/role-play. I do worry about the point where they decide that tickling represents a form of assault or unwanted sexual attention and decide to ban that too - it only takes one high-profile court case to make the media view it in a negative enough light and it could happen.

Soooo, they're making the leap from sleep-feet tickles to Cosby-style assaults???

just assumed a lot of it was clickbait

In fact IIRC there is a rule in C4S "a person can't have all of his limb bound", something like that.

OmahaTickler said:

Soooo, they're making the leap from sleep-feet tickles to Cosby-style assaults???

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Pretty much. It's the nature of the reactionary politics in the current era - media coverage has a huge sway over how these things are perceived. Right now, people have become so sensitised to the notion of any unwanted/non-consensual touching, that even depicting it in a harmless fantasy can become problematic. Combine that with a pre-existing conservative drive against the corrupting influence of pornography anyway and it doesn't bode well for the future of fetish porn. The only hope is that the world calms down and stops being so reactionary but that doesn't seem likely any time soon!

We had a situation a couple of years ago here in the UK where the government was trying to push through all sorts of bans on indecent pornography under the guise of 'child protection'. It focused mainly on fetish porn, including a ban on face-sitting, watersports, certain types of bondage and the use of gags that certain lobbying grous had decided were too corrupting...and this was before #metoo kicked off as well, otherwise it would have probably gone further! There were also plans to force adults to purchase 'porn passes' in order to be able view adult content online. Thankfully the mess around Brexit reduced our then PM's majority to nothing and she became a kind of lame duck without the power to push ahead with any of this. The current government have scrapped the whole thing but it was looking pretty bleak for a while.

kingmaker said:

In fact IIRC there is a rule in C4S "a person can't have all of his limb bound", something like that.

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Yes, they keep adding to the rules. I seem to recall that you can't have someone fully bound whilst having anything sexual done to them now. That should theoretically make all forced orgasm clips against the rules now but I'm not sure whether that's true.

Interesting