I will have to make some changes to conform to the new requirements of my host on the pay site, as well as to conform to the demands of the credit card companies. This does not affect Other Crap (for now), except that I’ll have to change some of the links. You might not even notice. Basically I have to put an age 18 warning on any site in the pay site domains if they contain adult material that is accessible by people under 18. For example, I have the following choices with the free preview of the latest Fun House, which is not behind a paywall, but is on one of the paywall domains: (1) place the dreaded “are you 18” choice to get to the page; or (2) make it into a page with dead links only; or (3) drop it. I suppose I’l drop it and just mention on this site when something is in the Fun House that is not on Other Crap.
Yes, I know that age question is ridiculous because no kid ever checks “I am under 18,” but them’s the rules, and I have to play by ’em.
If you’re a member of the pay site, it will no longer link to pages that are not behind the pay wall, like Other Crap and Charlie’s site, although those sites will continue to function normally. (And Other Crap will still link to Charlie’s site.) Sites behind the pay wall will only link to other sites behind the pay wall, and will have to open in a new window if the registered domain changes.
So it goes.
I am not a big fan of these age warnings and restrictions. I discovered my parents’ (small, and pretty mild) collection of nude/erotic materials back in the 1970s when I was about 13. Teenagers definitely have an interest in such things and I don’t think that it is unhealthy at all. Sure there is some types of materials out there that I think are pretty awful, but I would argue that they are unhealthy for people of any age – and age restrictions are probably doing nothing to prevent access by kids. You have to talk to kids about these things and try to direct their interests to healthy sexuality.