Big changes ahead at AW

[Cunning Stunts]

Not long ago there was a discussion on here about payment methods on various sites [ Anybody else never able to find a thread when you go looking for it ]

Well the shit is now about to hit the fan at AW

Heres a message they sent to all the girls last week


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MasterCard Compliance Changes


AdultWork.com <[email protected]> Unsubscribe
Fri, 24 Sept, 06:54 (6 days ago)
to me

Dear Miss_xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Mastercard has announced a new policy directed at adult content which is due to take effect on 15th October 2021.

Mastercard’s Revised Standards include the following: (in addition to our Terms)

Under the new rules, adult sites taking Mastercard payments will need to prove the age and identity of anyone uploading adult content, conduct a pre-publication content review process, and offer a robust complaint resolution and appeals process.

Content creators must obtain and keep on record written consent from all persons depicted in the content specific to the following areas:

Consent to be depicted in the content.
Consent to allow for the public distribution of the content and to upload the content to the AdultWork.com website.
If the content will be made available for downloading by other users, consent to have the content downloaded.
MasterCard requires the content creator to verify the identity and age of all persons, depicted in the content, are adults and to be able to provide supporting documents upon request.

AdultWork.com must only permit content uploads from verified content providers.

More information will be supplied, including a step-by-step guide to help you with the new regulations and advice on how this will affect your content which is already uploaded to your profile.

If you are creating new content with others, please make sure you age verify all participants by checking government-issued photo ID’s and ensure you have written consent and distribution rights of the content. This is applicable to Photos, Movies, and DirectCam.

AdultWork.com is happy to comply with the new regulations as it’s another step forward to ensure the safety & security of your content.

We appreciate your continued support and cooperation during these regulation changes.

Thanks and regards

The AdultWork.com Team.



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Today all the girl's whose profiles aren't verified received this one.



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URGENT - This affects your profile.
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AdultWork.com <[email protected]> Unsubscribe
17:41 (3 hours ago)
to me

Hello Miss_xxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxx

Mastercard has announced a new policy directed at adult content which is due to take effect on 15th October 2021.

Part of the Mastercard statement includes:

Sites that accept uploads of user generated content, (like AdultWork.com), must only permit uploads from verified content providers and must have a robust process for verifying the age and identity of the content provider, which includes the review and validation of government-issued identification and steps to ensure that the government identification is in the possession of, and belongs to, the content provider.

This new regulation change affects your profile, so we strongly recommend that you verify your profile before the 15th October 2021.

To verify your profile now, please click here.

Or if you were previously verified and need to re-verify your profile, please visit this page.

Our usual terms are up to 2 days to verify a profile, but as we expect a larger amount of processing during the lead up to the deadline, please allow 3 working days for your documentation to be processed.

Any non-verified profiles will be hidden from customers at midnight on 14th October 2021, until the verification process has been completed.

For guidance regarding the verification process, please visit the Verification FAQs Section.

If you have any issues, please visit the Help Centre or ask a question on our Live Chat

Thanks and best regards

The AdultWork.com Team
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This basically means that as of Oct 15th all the unverified profiles and all their content will disappear which could be as high as 80% of the site's content [ a lot of the cam girls and content producers aren't verified for lots of reasons many fearing the taxman could get hold of the details and be easy prey as they tend to work from their home addresses whereas its a lot easier for escorts and massage ladies to hide their identities.]

Now i can understand that some of you might think that a fully verified site might be a good thing but take a look at how many of the more established reliable service providers actually aren't verified and i can see this being the end of AW as we know it as even an optimistic estimate that 50% of its content survives the cull and that represents a cut of the same percentage in its income how many companies survive a loss of turnover of that sort ?

But what's really strange is AW.s statement that they're embracing the changes that could bring a rapid and premature end to their site if they go thru with the changes that they're saying they're going to make.

[SeekingSteve]

Easy solution, AW drop mastercard as an accepted payment method.
But I very much doubt it will be the demise of the site. When all is said and done, why would you pay for content on AW when the internet is 90% porn and most of it is free 

[Captain caveman 69]

Look on the bright side the cam girl scammers might actually have to start doing punts again .

[Ghost89]

I won’t lose sleep over it.

[Spacecowb0y]

I welcome the cull

[Taggart]

Not long ago there was a discussion on here about payment methods on various sites [ Anybody else never able to find a thread when you go looking for it ]




Now i can understand that some of you might think that a fully verified site might be a good thing but take a look at how many of the more established reliable service providers actually aren't verified and i can see this being the end of AW as we know it as even an optimistic estimate that 50% of its content survives the cull and that represents a cut of the same percentage in its income how many companies survive a loss of turnover of that sort ?

But what's really strange is AW.s statement that they're embracing the changes that could bring a rapid and premature end to their site if they go thru with the changes that they're saying they're going to make.

Given what happened at Only Fans, I’m not surprised. Mastercard can tweak T&Cs however they want, so don’t want overt porn links.

That some profiles will disappear can only be positive step, weed out scammers, just a shame AW are as diligent on throwing out girls who tick escort but are undoubtedly cam girls.

My hot lists have very few unverified profiles so may lose 5-6 overall, one being an unverified person I am negotiating a poss meet with atm. Could be a case of conventional email.

Whether there’s some backtracking by Mastercard remains to be seen.

Interesting times!

[Colston36]

Look on the bright side the cam girl scammers might actually have to start doing punts again .

Quite right. I've wasted hours on the bitches

[Blackpool Rock]

I don't see how it will be the end of AW as their business must be hugely profitable and with a huge profit margin too, hopefully it will weed out some of the dross and reduce the number of girls on there by getting rid of the dodgy ones so that only the better ones are left 

How did you get the AW message, are you a WG 

[Blackpool Rock]

Just done a generic AW search for Females who escort and it's showing 16525 so will be good to compare if it drops significantly in a couple of weeks time when they make this change.

Have to say i'm sure i've previously done the same search many years ago and got about double that number, my standard search for Lancashire including filters is returning 79 which is about what it was mid lockdown, previously it was about 115 and even a week ago was more like 100 so perhaps some have already been booted off 

[JustaPunter]

Let’s be honest, who actually solely uses MasterCard?

If this was Visa I would be more concerned.

[Strawberry]

Let’s be honest, who actually solely uses MasterCard?

If this was Visa I would be more concerned.

One major bank has recently changed all debit cards from Visa to MasterCard in line with their own CreditCard.

These rules having been coming in on other adultsites, one major webcam platform started the enhanced verification one month ago. Adultwork are just catching up.

[Hotdogboy88]

I don't see how it will be the end of AW as their business must be hugely profitable and with a huge profit margin too, hopefully it will weed out some of the dross and reduce the number of girls on there by getting rid of the dodgy ones so that only the better ones are left 

How did you get the AW message, are you a WG 

I thought this as well about how the OP got the emails. Also within in the week he’s seen the emails of a verified and unverified account. In all my years I’ve never had a girl tell me about adultwork communications, let alone 2 on the same subject from two different accounts. My guess OP isn’t a punter and more likely a pimp/madam.

[meptalon]

Not worried about it. I am not purchasing online "content" of any sort.
For punting purposes, as long as the providers are OK that their public gallery can be downloaded, they tick the box.

As long as they are considered a directory, they're good. It's the content distribution which could be affected, and only with debit/credit card payments (Visa has similar guidelines fwiw).

[Blackpool Rock]

I thought this as well about how the OP got the emails. Also within in the week he’s seen the emails of a verified and unverified account. In all my years I’ve never had a girl tell me about adultwork communications, let alone 2 on the same subject from two different accounts. My guess OP isn’t a punter and more likely a pimp/madam.

Yeah well the OP's been on and not confirmed or denied whether they are a punter or service provider, some clarity would be good

[Cunning Stunts]

Just done a generic AW search for Females who escort and it's showing 16525 so will be good to compare if it drops significantly in a couple of weeks time when they make this change.

Have to say I'm sure I've previously done the same search many years ago and got about double that number, my standard search for Lancashire including filters is returning 79 which is about what it was mid lockdown, previously it was about 115 and even a week ago was more like 100 so perhaps some have already been booted off 

You won't see the effect by simply looking at the numbers as they're not planning to delete the profiles in question just hide them from view which presumably means they will still show up in the total figures but just won't be able to be seen in local searches.

When they do that now they don't show up in location searches but are still there on the site and you can come across them randomly [ they often show up when you follow a link to a profile and you get that " x is no longer a member but here are 20 pages of other relevant local profiles ] so presumably, they're now going to change that so that they don't display at all.

Yes I agree that AW is a very profitable operation and undoubtedly makes a lot of money but it's pretty clear that since it was sold to the new owners about 3 years ago its very obvious that its operating and development costs will have increased considerably in what will have been a declining market evidenced as you say by the much lower number of profiles than there was before the sale and therefore presumably suffering a similar decrease in income. But however profitable the operation is if it was to suffer as much as a 50% decrease in income it will undoubtedly experience difficulties as any company suffering that would do which will likely result in increased charges to both customers to buy credits and service providers to pay to operate their profiles which will then likely result in increased charges to customers for both content and services.

And no i.m not an escort. I had the original e.mail sent to me by an AW service provider who purchases unrelated products from my company and who from time to time speaks to me about issues with AW etc and who did so this time as she didn't understand the possible ramifications of what AW were saying in their first e.mail to which I replied to her that i thought that it was very ambiguous and she would have to wait for further details to which she said she.d forward them to me when they arrived which she did yesterday.

What's rather strange is that to date there doesn't seem to have been any reaction from the likes of Vivastreet who although the new regulations will impact on a much smaller scale due to the nature of the pictures that they're willing to accept uploading pictures to their site is still uploading adult content and unless they've come to an arrangement with Mastercard which draws the line in a position that excludes them from any action similar to that being taken against AW you would have thought they would have issued a statement on the subject by now.

And the other fact is that we're still to hear from Visa over their stance on the subject which is rather strange but it seems to now be irrelevant given the stance AW has taken in light of the Mastercard action.

The question now has to be is there an opportunity for a new escort booking site offering AW.s functionality and facilities but limited to escort/massage bookings and not content for sale in a way similar to that which Viva does. The fact that there seems to be an increasing market for bookings from Thai Massage type providers with profiles that usually don't contain content that would fall foul of the Mastercard regulations suggests that there might be or one which contains AW style content but who takes payment in other ways than using Visa and Mastercard credit/debit cards like Bitcoin, via phones or using say Neo card.

But since the Only Fans episode a month or so ago it certainly appears that Mastercards stance seems to have changed in that they are no longer looking to close down sites down by making them unviable by not being able to accept cards to becoming the world's censor of adult content sites by forcing them to become responsible for their content and they then pass that responsibility on to their advertisers by insisting on self-verification. This then takes us back to the theory that these actions are not necessarily from the credit card companies choice but more as a result of pressure being put on them in the USA as evidenced by this discusion on Fetlife.

[Cunning Stunts]

I thought this as well about how the OP got the emails. Also within in the week he’s seen the emails of a verified and unverified account. In all my years I’ve never had a girl tell me about adultwork communications, let alone 2 on the same subject from two different accounts. My guess OP isn’t a punter and more likely a pimp/madam.

Where do you work out that i.ve seen a verified account ?

Just to be clear i haven't had access to any AW accounts all i have is the two e.mails from AW that were forwarded to me by e.mail from someone who has an AW profile.

And having been asked to look into the possible ramifications i.ve done a bit of reading up on the subject by reading the likes of the thread on Fetlife who could be massively affected by this action in that although they don't take payments to view content they do take cards to take payments for some of their enhanced levels of access and support and who fought for a very long time to get the card companies to let them accept card payments in the first place a few years back.

[char45]

I don't think it will impact escorts as most of their pics are of themselves and AW has enforced verification. It potentially hits amateur content providers but who cares about that.

[JamesKW]

The sooner paying for content on sites such as AW and Onlyfans finishes the quicker we can get back to proper punting.

[char45]

Exactly

The sooner paying for content on sites such as AW and Onlyfans finishes the quicker we can get back to proper punting.

[lamboman]

Let’s be honest, who actually solely uses MasterCard?

Me and millions of others,bit of an odd thing to say.

[mrwhite]

There are other payment methods available, people will just switch to those!

I tend to transfer cash to a pre-pay card and use that - Mastercard no involved in any way

[Cunning Stunts]

There are other payment methods available, people will just switch to those!

I tend to transfer cash to a pre-pay card and use that - Mastercard no involved in any way

Look again all pre-pay cards are issued by either Visa or MasterCard [ look at your card and you will see one of their logos ] The Brand [ the name on the card ] is just the company that manages it on their behalf.

But there seems to be quite a bit of confusion there will not be a problem with any cards you will still be able to use them just as you do now just with a lot fewer escorts and content to choose from given the way AW have chosen to deal with the issue.

There would have been a problem had they chosen to go the other way as a couple of the streaming sites have chosen to do and set up some alternative ways to pay them other than by credit or debit card [ Bitcoin, Phone or Neo ]

[Gordon Bennett]

Sounds good. Far too many scammy profiles on AW uploading stolen content, anything that puts a lid on that is a good thing. I keep an eye on new profiles that pop up near me in case a hottie appears but it's futile, feels like 90% of them are just garbage fake profiles and are gone in days. Indeed, this week a profile appeared featuring what'd I'd call very ordinary family snaps of the lady, including face pics. I'm certain this was either some sort of nasty prank or, more likely, a shitty retaliatory action by a disgruntled ex. This sort of nonsense goes far beyond being just irritating, it's unacceptable and illegal. It's disgraceful that AW only gets a grip when a financial service leans on them.

[Angel Sam]

This is a scam email, when you click on it, it asks for your pass words and details, Adult work would not ask this, Any ladies that have received this, ignore and Delete it.

Just a heads up Sam xx

[geostorm1]

I don't see how it will be the end of AW as their business must be hugely profitable and with a huge profit margin too, hopefully it will weed out some of the dross and reduce the number of girls on there by getting rid of the dodgy ones so that only the better ones are left 

How did you get the AW message, are you a WG 

Website hosting can be quite expensive, particularly websites that host a lot of media such as images and videos. I wouldn't just assume they make a massive profit margin.

[Vice Admiral]

Adult Work take 30% of a girl's income from her Private Gallery and videos; and, I assume, 30% of webcamming income too. 

In addition there's £1 a day for displaying a phone number, £5 a day for being shown as "available today", and considerably more for being "featured".  And various other sources of income.

A quick search just now reveals that the site has 16,413 female escorting members and 5,837 female webcamming members in the UK alone.

The site must make a staggering amount of money – almost enough to make Jeff Bezos go green with envy.

[Strawberry]

Adult Work take 30% of a girl's income from her Private Gallery and videos; and, I assume, 30% of webcamming income too. 

In addition there's £1 a day for displaying a phone number, £5 a day for being shown as "available today", and considerably more for being "featured".  And various other sources of income.

A quick search just now reveals that the site has 16,413 female escorting members and 5,837 female webcamming members in the UK alone.

The site must make a staggering amount of money – almost enough to make Jeff Bezos go green with envy.

AW take 30 percent of all credits when cashed in ie transfered to your bank or one of the other cash out options, this isn't subtracted if the credits are used within the site eg phone number display, featuring, positioning etc. There also used to be a small fee for connecting each webcam and phone chat customer not sure if that still stands, the webcam system changed end of last year.

May be worth knowing as a comparison some of the major webcam websites take double this percentage, however they tend to have more traffic.

[Hotdogboy88]

This is a scam email, when you click on it, it asks for your pass words and details, Adult work would not ask this, Any ladies that have received this, ignore and Delete it.

Just a heads up Sam xx

Seems like the girl in question went to the wrong person for advice. Should’ve seen you, thbais for straightening this out.

[Fitsarahgfe]

Seems like the girl in question went to the wrong person for advice. Should’ve seen you, thbais for straightening this out.

Once you click on the link from the second email, it redirects you to AW page where you can verify/re-verify your profile. If you are currently logged in, you can proceed straight away, if not- you have to log in first.
This page does ask for 2 characters from your password, but so it does when you are filling any other feedback/request form on AW and wish to be contacted back.
Imho it is legit, but of course I might be wrong

S.

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[Strawberry]

Once you click on the link from the second email, it redirects you to AW page where you can verify/re-verify your profile. If you are currently logged in, you can proceed straight away, if not- you have to log in first.
This page does ask for 2 characters from your password, but so it does when you are filling any other feedback/request form on AW and wish to be contacted back.
Imho it is legit, but of course I might be wrong

S.

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I will double check but it came from the official AW email address, check by hovering over the sender details. Also some received a version without links (mostly verified members).

[geostorm1]

I'm sure AW does make a lot of money, but it doesn't change the fact that web hosting is really expensive when it comes to hosting images, videos, and allowing camming etc. Plus they will have to pay for their payment services they provide. Then they need the database and compute capability for people to do geolocation searches without it taking a long time. To do postcode searches they will most likely be paying for a postcode to lat/long service as well.

I'm sure they make a profit but they aren't exactly Jeff Bezos.

[Angel Sam]

Any advice would be to go through the web site itself to verify, not through emails, there is a message on adult works saying it’s a scam if you have received emails regarding this,

Just be careful giving out details about pass words, especially on emails,

Stay safe Sam xxxxx

[Moby Dick]

 

Never paid for anything on AW, never will.

Doesn’t affect punting.
Paying for PG, movies, web cams, etc ain’t punting.
Paying deposits is stupid.

What’s this thread got to do with punting?

[Strawberry]

Any advice would be to go through the web site itself to verify, not through emails, there is a message on adult works saying it’s a scam if you have received emails regarding this,

Just be careful giving out details about pass words, especially on emails,

Stay safe Sam xxxxx

There is a notice in AW help about phishing scams yes, but not as far as I can see about the Mastercard related verification changes email.

[Taggart]

Adult Work take 30% of a girl's income from her Private Gallery and videos; and, I assume, 30% of webcamming income too. 

In addition there's £1 a day for displaying a phone number, £5 a day for being shown as "available today", and considerably more for being "featured”.

This is interesting. I look at featured girls, and TS profiles probably daily, yet their feedback seldom increases. Seems self defeating to pay out to promote ones self and not see an increase in positive feedback. Maybe I’m looking at it from a skewed way? 🤷‍♂️

[Strawberry]

This is interesting. I look at featured girls, and TS profiles probably daily, yet their feedback seldom increases. Seems self defeating to pay out to promote ones self and not see an increase in positive feedback. Maybe I’m looking at it from a skewed way? 🤷‍♂️

They could simply be happy receiving more bookings without using the booking system, or the people booking them do not wish to add to feedback.

[Blackpool Rock]

I'm sure AW does make a lot of money, but it doesn't change the fact that web hosting is really expensive when it comes to hosting images, videos, and allowing camming etc. Plus they will have to pay for their payment services they provide. Then they need the database and compute capability for people to do geolocation searches without it taking a long time. To do postcode searches they will most likely be paying for a postcode to lat/long service as well.

I'm sure they make a profit but they aren't exactly Jeff Bezos.

Sorry but I think you're in a small group (possibly of 1  ) here as most people have AW marked down as a bunch of money grabbing cunts.

It's a bit like Alan Sugar or Richard Branson complaining it costs a lot to insure a Rolls Royce, nobody gives a fuck 

[geostorm1]

Sorry but I think you're in a small group (possibly of 1  ) here as most people have AW marked down as a bunch of money grabbing cunts.

It's a bit like Alan Sugar or Richard Branson complaining it costs a lot to insure a Rolls Royce, nobody gives a fuck 

Oh I don't care for AW, they probably are a bunch of cunts, I just don't think they're making vast vast profits when actually infrastructure for hosting a large website like that is very costly.

[Fitsarahgfe]

Any advice would be to go through the web site itself to verify, not through emails, there is a message on adult works saying it’s a scam if you have received emails regarding this,

Just be careful giving out details about pass words, especially on emails,

Stay safe Sam xxxxx

I've simply asked  AW  if these emails are genuine, sent them screenshots. The answer is yes, legit emails from AW, it's not scam

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[dynatron]

to be honest i think its such a shit site these days so it wouldant concern me in any way

[bbwandy72]

There are an awful lot of very naive people around here who think this won't affect them. It will. This is a huge change and the outlook for the punting world appears quite bleak.

[Moby Dick]

There are an awful lot of very naive people around here who think this won't affect them. It will. This is a huge change and the outlook for the punting world appears quite bleak.

Care to explain?

[bbwandy72]

Care to explain?

This is being driven by Mastercard, who are in turn being driven by their corporate lawyers. They don't care about the ethics of sex work in the slightest. They care about their liability, and in the light of the FOSTA/SESTA laws that have been passed in the US, they've decided to take a cautious approach and insist on verification checks for adult related imagery. Yes, the rougly $100bn/year in transactions from adult payments makes it an attractive market to be in. But they won't jeapordise the $2000bn of transactions that make up their main business, and would rather take the hit of reduced revenue. This will affect the entire adult industry (porn, punting, web cams, you name it).

* "But I don't pay AW anything, why should I care?". Well, because other people do. And if they can't, then the platform will cease to exist and you won't have a convenient way of finding SPs any more.

* "But they're only asking for verification from SPs, that shouldn't be a problem". I already know of many who are refusing to trust AW with personal information. I'm sure some will abide by the new requirements, but many won't, and although the site may still exist, it will be in a drastically reduced form.

* "But why don't they just switch to another payment provider?" Mastercard are not alone here. They're just the ones that have moved first. Stripe have followed suit. You can guarantee that Visa and the other providers will follow soon enough. I'm sure that cryptocurrencies will be mooted as an alternative and it's true that they can't be regulated in the same way. But the conversion from cryptocurrency to fiat currency can be (and there are already moves to do just that). Cryptocurrencies are no use if you can't convert them to something you can spend. And we're a long way off being able to spend bitcoin directly for general purpose purchases.

* "If AW dies, another platform will spring up to take its place". No, it won't. Yes, OnlyFans and AW have been targetted first. But this will affect all adult sites that take payment. There are already plenty of free escort directories, and none of them come close to providing the convenient experience that AW does. If there's no opportunity to take payments, there's no incentive for someone to build something as comprehensive.

[Moby Dick]

Thanks 

I reckon it will weed out the less reputable WG, who aren’t verified 
I doubt the verified ones will mind giving up their details. AW probably already have their ID, bank details, verification pics so fail to see how this will change the way I punt.

From a punters perspective all I need is a phone number, used to get from the back of the daily sport (b4 internet). Can now get this from UKP so 

[Marmalade]

So what happens if the SP (unlikely but) decided to just stick to regular clients, ones that had her profile address, email etc anyway? In other words, are the profiles just hidden from searches or are disabled completely? The reason I ask is that a number of punters register as service providers just to get round certain AW hassles.

[90125]

AW seems to be moving the requirements.

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[belfastpunter]

This needs to happen but I am fearful for the future.
On the for argument they really don’t give a fuck and it's high time they were held to account.
Here is one case that hit the headlines in local NI news.
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I knew this will get rid of a lot of dross but it will also stop the odd little gem, single mum raising cash for xmas etc. If the site just has verified porn producers then it wont be much use for punting.
Don’t forget this will roll out to all sites eventually.

[Moby Dick]

This needs to happen but I am fearful for the future.
On the for argument they really don’t give a fuck and it's high time they were held to account.
Here is one case that hit the headlines in local NI news.
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I knew this will get rid of a lot of dross but it will also stop the odd little gem, single mum raising cash for xmas etc. If the site just has verified porn producers then it wont be much use for punting.
Don’t forget this will roll out to all sites eventually.

There are loads of verified escorts who don’t have anything to do with porn, or webcams, sure they may sell a few movies, PG to pay for their phone numbers to be displayed but fucking punters is their main source of income and I fail to see why they wouldn’t sign a form to say the images are of them, they are over 18, and have consented to posting their own pictures.

[Marmalade]

There are loads of verified escorts who don’t have anything to do with porn, or webcams, sure they may sell a few movies, PG to pay for their phone numbers to be displayed but fucking punters is their main source of income and I fail to see why they wouldn’t sign a form to say the images are of them, they are over 18, and have consented to posting their own pictures.

I suppose AW have a definition of “content” somewhere or other …

[Cunning Stunts]

So what happens if the SP (unlikely but) decided to just stick to regular clients, ones that had her profile address, email etc anyway? In other words, are the profiles just hidden from searches or are disabled completely? The reason I ask is that a number of punters register as service providers just to get round certain AW hassles.

No apparently they're creating a new category completely. right now they have profiles that are on normal view and can be brought up with a location search and ones that are still there but partially hidden in that they don't appear in location searches and the best way to be able to view them/bookmark them is to send them a message [ as you can access their profiles by clicking on "see profile" in your message log.] But from various posts and chats, it appears that the profiles that get hidden in this cull won't be available to be accessed in this way either. Its suggested that the only people who.ll be able to see them will be the account holder by logging in to their profile.