eBay will enact a sex ban starting June 15th - Wont someone think of the coomers

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eBay will enact a sex ban starting June 15th​

No female presenting nipples please
By Alex Cranz May 14, 2021, 6:47pm EDT
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If you’re hoping to turn a dollar on that extremely explicit hentai you picked up in college, you won’t be selling it on eBay. As first noticed by Adult Video News, eBay is banning the sale of most sexually explicit materials starting June 15th, 2021.
Everyone has a different definition of what constitutes “sexually explicit” and eBay’s is extremely PG. While the policy is confusing in that it appears to conflate nudity and sexually explicit content, it carefully defines nudity as “showing any part of male or female genitalia, anus, or female breasts where the areola or nipple is visible.” It goes on to say that those same bits don’t get a pass if they’re covered by see-through material or confined by tight clothing. The policy also classifies “people engaged in sexual contact or activity” as nudity.
It goes on to say “most adult-only items are prohibited” and includes “sexually explicit anime, comics, books, films, animation, manga, hentai, yaoi” as among the things considered adult only.
The policy, as written, would appear to ban the sale of Game of Thrones, where “sexposition” was all the rage, as well as films like Blue is the Warmest Color. Your favorite romance novel would be safe (images, not words, appear to be the problem) but Alan Moore’s epic comic collection Lost Girls, where Wendy from Peter Pan and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz just really go at it in more pages than I personally wanted to see, would not. Explicit comics, explicit manga, hentai, and yaoi, which a pedantic might say are all the same thing, would be forbidden under the policy as well.
The policy does, however, carve out an exemption for Playboy, Playgirl, Mayfair, and Penthouse. Tasteful nudes sold in the Art section would also be allowed provided poses are acceptable and there are no sexual acts. What that means for prints of any version of Leda and the Swan is up to eBay. The same would likely go for the complete works of Katsushika Hokusai. The artist is best known for his woodblock print series featuring Mount Fuji, but was also known for his extremely explicit woodblock print erotica—including one of the earliest instances of “tentacle porn”.
Sex toys in unopened packages will continue to be permitted provided the packaging isn’t sexually explicit.
Censorship, even in a relatively open marketplace like eBay, is a notoriously tricky business. When Tumblr attempted to deal with its porn problem in 2018, it saw traffic take a nosedive as horny users went elsewhere. eBay told Vice that this new ban was in the interest of safety. Banning all adult content should make it more difficult for bad actors to monetize revenge porn or other content published without the consent of all participants.
When reached for comment eBay told The Verge:
eBay is committed to maintaining a safe and trusted marketplace. Starting June 15, 2021, items showing sexual content or sexually suggestive poses will no longer be allowed on eBay.com. The “Everything Else > Adult Only” will no longer be available as a category. No new listings will be allowed in the Adult Only category and good-til-cancelled listings will be ended upon their renewal date.
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Hmm I wonder if this is a way to purge loli
 
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Joe Swanson said:
My tinfoil hat theory: it's so they can just keep a few entities to regulate the sexual appetite of the masses, in order to give us deprived fetishes
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I will do you one better.

At some point in the next ten years, people will start seriously floating the idea that computers should be legally required to be sold with software that monitors all image files to prevent 24-year-olds from jacking off to 21-year-olds.

The corporations and politicians will think this is a very good idea, and endorse it wholeheartedly. You will start seeing articles about how disconnecting your computer from the Internet makes you a rapist,

Go buy some nice colored pencils and learn how to draw titties before the tutorials get taken down!
 
The fact the "sex ban" affects movies and manga with sex jokes but exempts fucking PLAYBOY and other smut magazines as well as "artistic nudes" from the ban consequencesreally shows what this is really about. Their reasoning of it " preventing revenge porn abuse" makes no god damn sense. Are they sneaking the revenge porn into the used media? Most likely not which makes this more fucking stupid. It's draconian bullshit for draconian bullshits sake, kinda like how they changed how their search engine worked like a year or 2 ago so it now doesnt actually give you all results with the exact words you type into it anymore because of some weird new dumb algorithm. It's about control instead of actual moral obligation.

Mild tangent in the spoiler, but it's another mildly related gripe I got with Ebay, as well as online buying in general.
Scalpers have been getting worse in the last several years and lockdown has made Ebay especially nasty in terms of price gouging on products new and old. There's shit like cheapass $5 video game blindboxes from anywhere range 2-10 years in the past being charged for $200-$500 on ebay right now with no sanely priced alternatives anywhere online. No demand and all the supply and these fuckers are treating it like it's more rare than gold. Occasionally people buy them but at this point it's pretty much scalpers buying off scalpers. shitloads of "third party sellers" online whether it be on ebay or amazon or walmart or wherever the fuck is in on the price gouging game. Things that make no sense being as expensive as they are online keep getting more and more prevalent. They don't even wait for the thing to be released sometimes before making a scalper listing! Ebay in particular is filled with these "preorder" scalpers right now. They should deal with that shit before fucking media with adult jokes in it or slightly too "sexual looking" figures.
 
Finally. I'm so tired of having my ebay feed crammed full of gay hentai doujins and nude bodypillows for 100+ pages when all I'm searching for is a fucking keychain or something similarly benign. NSFW shit has made it essentially impossible to search for merch on E-bay without wanting to take a cheese-grater to your own face.
 
What the hell, why? What an absolute fucking nightmare this is, why would they do something so extreme? Think of how harder buying any old manga is going to be now, let alone full on hentai.

Why in the fucking fuck is society suddenly becoming more puritanical after years of moving in the opposite direction?

Thanks for just making life worse and worse corporate America, this is definitely totally necessary.
 
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I'm like 95% sure this due to lobbying by the very butthurt American media industry. Notice anime and manga are very heavily targeted while Playboy and Hustler are exempt.

This has nothing to due with morality but rather destroying your competition under the guise of "think of the children" which is ironically something stereotypically associated with Christian fundies not left wing megacorps.
 
Ruin said:
I'm like 95% sure this due to lobbying by the very butthurt American media industry. Notice anime and manga are very heavily targeted while Playboy and Hustler are exempt.

This has nothing to due with morality but rather destroying your competition under the guise of "think of the children" which is ironically something stereotypically associated with Christian fundies not left wing megacorps.
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Yeah, I doubt Game of Thrones will be banned.
 
Frank D'arbo said:
So whats up with literally everyone banning adult content
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The people who whine and bitch the most at everything are furries and troons.

A few years ago in China, there was a website that actually did just ban troons outright when troons started complaining that they were getting harassed. It was like "help help people are bullying us for being different" and China looked at the numbers and said "well, there are less of you than there are people who want to bully you so get out".

The west has had to adopt this policy more carefully because there would be outright backlash against a policy like "fat chicks posting nudes for asspats can no longer do so because everyone laughs in the comments and they get assmad". So they just ban adult content all out. It gets rid of all the attention seeking whores, wannabe male e-thots, and furries.

Really, the fact that companies are willing to basically financially destroy themselves like Tumblr and pornhub just to oust pedos and furries is pretty based, ngl.
 
Sage In All Fields said:
The only people who will be mad at this will be coomers
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If you can't see how this is going to be one big pain in the ass and pointless inconvenience then I don't know what to tell you.

It will be the way it always is with things like this, it becomes a game of arguing over whether something is breaking the rules or not and the biggest losers are customers.
 
Ruin said:
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This has nothing to due with morality but rather destroying your competition under the guise of "think of the children" which is ironically something stereotypically associated with Christian fundies not left wing megacorps.
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Christian fundies had the "think of the children" mantra but weren't the ones getting any thing banned. Not when they were usually locked in a circular firing squad shooting themselves. And especially after the televangelists kept getting exposed for the grifting frauds that they are.
 
Ruin said:
I'm like 95% sure this due to lobbying by the very butthurt American media industry. Notice anime and manga are very heavily targeted while Playboy and Hustler are exempt.

This has nothing to due with morality but rather destroying your competition under the guise of "think of the children" which is ironically something stereotypically associated with Christian fundies not left wing megacorps.
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Marvel will never have another top ten comic book, even with all their loyal "fans" ordering crates worth that just rot in the backroom/basement, so long as manga is around. The only solution is to ban manga and that also means banning secondhand trading of it. That's all this is, just another way to confuse and conflate mainstream manga with pedophilia, degeneracy and misogyny so that you'll have no choice but to buy LGBTQ Avengers if you want comics.

To do otherwise will be insta-social-cancellation at best, or criminal charges, followed by social cancellation, at worst.

You'll see more laws introduced and pushed for by blue communities as more people stand up and notice the brand new scapegoat.... they'll next go for the local comic shops selling this stuff on the grounds they're selling child porn.

This is just another slimy censorship tentacle from the left finally breaking through the surface.... the real goal is to make it impossible to consume ANYTHING but approved diversity-product. (and get excited for next product)

Foreign media won't cave like Hollywood? Then out it goes! To save the Troon-Children!
 
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make_it_so said:
What is even the reason for this? Age verification is a fucking thing. Or are they too fucking cheap/lazy to hire someone to ensure that works?
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Anime still has attractive women and offensive content.
Dom Cruise said:
What the hell, why? What an absolute fucking nightmare this is, why would they do something so extreme? Think of how harder buying any old manga is going to be now, let alone full on hentai.

Why in the fucking fuck is society suddenly becoming more puritanical after years of moving in the opposite direction?

Thanks for just making life worse and worse corporate America, this is definitely totally necessary.
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That's the point. They don't like that content because it outsells Captain Marvel.
 
Ruin said:
I'm like 95% sure this due to lobbying by the very butthurt American media industry. Notice anime and manga are very heavily targeted while Playboy and Hustler are exempt.
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Cue to the Joker meme saying: "Anime and manga show nudity, everyone lose their minds while Playboy and Hustler also show nudity and nobody blink an eye".

MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Ebay is still a thing?
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It remind me of that Weird Al parody.
 
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