Also I think there's a particular social dynamic inside big companies that naturally skews things in a puritanical direction. I wrote about it before in context of software development but I can imagine the same thing happening in payment processors
www.femdom-resource.com/2013/05/22/p...

Guessing they're looking at risk vs reward. It's a small part of their total business and the risk is lots of headlines about them facilitating white slavers, trafficking, child abuse, etc. Easy for pressure groups to drum up crazy headlines and create a lot of negative PR.

Intrigued by your comment about practicing Syncro II as you “…got it from the net a while back.”
Given this is 1985 and way before the internet was generally available, what net were you referring to?

Don't know if you've ever seen James Acaster, but he does a very funny bit on this topic...
youtu.be/x73PkUvArJY?...

Well to be fair, I think your top isn't corseted, where mine has all those tightening laces that flatter the figure :-)
Not that I looked all that good even with those, but they certainly help!

The cane.

Used to be a major thing. In fact it was the activity I requested in my first ever session. Now getting hit just annoys me for some reason. Weird response, as no other play triggers that emotional reaction.

Ha, that's funny. I knew exactly which article you meant even before you shared the link. Been meaning to write about it on my site, but hadn't yet found the energy. Look forward to your thoughts on it.

Good luck with job hunt!

Yes! Trying to be exclusive to Bluesky over the other place.

Sorry, I was screwing around with the posts and deleted the original here! But yes, Point Blank is a stone cold classic. One of my favorites (along with Excalibur!)

People are so odd.
The ones that always make me laugh are comments left on my blog on posts 10+ years old addressed to the model in the picture asking for a session.