PayPal, a famous online payment processor, has continuously discriminated against sex workers Including those in legal fields.

PayPal has not only suspended the accounts of sex workers usually without return of funds both past and present but they have also forced other organizations they work with to end support for adult projects/entertainment such as Paetron. This has not only caused those who currently engage in sex work to be effected but even those who have not done so in years have found their accounts banned.

Paypal is targeting freelance sex workers, adult artists and those whose work can be consider past a PG13 rating who want to make a living simply due to their christian origins however this did not apply to large corporations. Until recently Paypal which for years did not allow itself to be a payment processors for sex workers nor less profitable sex work websites did the processing for pornhub despite proof pornhub was doing absolutely nothing to quell the sex trafficking occurrences on the site until they were pressured to pull out. This shows it was never about keeping up with the faith of it's founders, only about respectability.

Sex workers are people like anyone else who do nothing wrong. Sex workers making a consensual living off their own bodies and work are not sex traffickers. It is immoral and should be (most likely is) for a website that wants to run itself like a bank deciding that even in occurrences of legal sex work that sex workers that they cannot use the platform due to their work even in cases where they weren't using the app to trade sex work goods.

This bias against sex workers also opens the floodgates for manipulation from sex work customers giving them an easy way to abuse sex workers, coning them into accepting payment by paypal only then to expose them to PayPals help center that the services bought were adult related or not delivered when they in fact were which forces sex workers to have their funds taken back or admit they did deliver on the product only to have all funds in paypal frozen. This allows for the disenfranchisement of sex workers and fraud to brew.

Sex workers are people.They pay rent, buy food and have families they need to support. Paypal has tried to defend its actions under religious freedom but i find it unchristian to leave those in need from their own money which could leave them destitute.Being a payment processor business means it should not be allowed to discriminate against legal businesses and those who work for them or freelance and it is downright gross that sex workers are targeted in this way.

Let us work to end this abuse of power!