I read the Community Guidelines and TOS to Striple. I have a Chrome text reader. but apparently it has different meaning in the US than here in Canada. The US has a strict rating system. Like some other religious countries. The UK, Canada and a few others don’t.
Here 14+ auto generates into R18+. A good recent example. Deadpool vs Wolverine is 14+ in Canada and R18+ in the US. My manga in Canadian ratings is 14+ in US would be 16 or 17+.

Most of the credit card companies have to follow ‘lobbyists’ agenda. So anything that might affect ones pure mind in strict religious ways is bad. I’m not making this up. I got this info, from all over Youtube of how it over-hauled over 5 years.

A couple of years ago I tried to get Stripe to add to payment options for my commissions. They ask for social media links and or your personal website. I just did my studio site. And they do ‘detective work’ based on vauge guidelines.

I was rejected within minutes with a confusing reason why:

Reason 1:
They told me I had pornographic content (means live people engaged in explicit sexual activity).
The site states no pornographic content/nudity.
My studio site has non of that. I dont own a porn site with adult videos or photos. Nor show explicit sexual acts. I am not selling adult content on my site either. There is no shop.
So I’m assuming if you are selling roman cement statues those are banned too. Cant show off those non sexual partially covered breasts. Someone might be triggered with peaches and eggplant.
Patreon breaks down Paypals reasoning to adult content. Even in art, anything explicit in a no-no.
I guess I get confused by this. Becuase adult content is allowed visually graphically in as young, as Kingergarden libraries now. (tries not to puke on that. so disturbing….not sure why they allow CP in schools)??

Reason 2:
I want to do art commissions.
Its not allowed either. I am confused by this. Its a payment company for studios, stores, etc. Its too high risk for them. Due to fraud issues with people asking for chargebacks.

So in the end, if you want to do anything really… connected to them. They send to you a ‘high risk’ processing affilate of thiers called Payment Cloud. Which charge higher than normal transaction rates.