You may be thinking from seeing the robust torrent of new releases and stellar sales of erotic games these days that the world changed. You may think it’s some kind of golden era for adult games.
Today I had a scheduled talk with a bank regarding the acquisition of a business loan to fund our game production. If I could acquire one, we could finish many projects within mere months with the amazing crew at hentaicoop.com. But from the get-go, I had resolved to the conversation failing.
You see, adult media companies of most countries are not able to be honest. A big reason behind that is the impossibility to have a rational verbal exchange about this polarizing media.
Well, I managed to have a rational back-and-forth with this bank official. A phone conversation on a cozy Thursday. We spoke for the full hour that had been scheduled for me.
While the official understood quite well from my explanation what my situation is, his hands were tied. The problem was, the bank’s rules are strictly against funding pornographic work. Almost no financial institution wants to risk the reputational harm from becoming profiled as a financier of erotic media. Almost no bank wants to be known as a “porn bank”.
There are other reasons as well. The logic of porn is to skirt the edge of what is permissible. What excites people sexually is often something taboo, immoral and even illegal. The resultant dynamic of the industry is thus embroiled in risk-taking. Companies that skirt the edge succeed best.
The response of adult media companies to the treatment they receive from third-party companies that facilitate basic necessities, such as payment processing, is to create complex arrangements. These arrangements are not always transparent. These arrangements are often fragile.
Can you imagine the life of a person who lives with the reality that his/her entire financial situation can be uprooted overnight? Your livelihood, poof, gone. You cannot have a family without stability.
So, why talk at all, when this is the reality? Because. The bank may have rules against pornography, but that can change. Xvideos wouldn’t allow nonverified voice actresses in videos, but I believe I changed that. Steam allows adult games these days. Twitter is the online mecca of porn.
I called and explained this local bank a portion of my complicated business arrangements. I spoke calmly and rationally, in roundabout ways where that was necessary, while the call was recorded. I shouldered the risk. Because otherwise, what the fuck was the point of all my suffering?
Because I never had social skills while growing up, I practice my argumentation religiously. Talking to the bank was practice. Argumentation is the only civilized way to enact positive change in the world. Hence it’s not a waste of time to talk with someone who you know is going to reject you.
It’s from a series of failed negotiations that successes come about. Even if you are unemployed, alone, in all ways a messed up individual, if you start talking to businesses today, you will have a job soon. It will require other work as well, but you will succeed. In similar fashion, if you start talking to girls/guys today, you will have a girlfriend/boyfriend soon. That “soon” could entail years, but your chances are improved by each successive failed negotiation, because you are learning how to do it.
I have known too many lonely, suicidal media creators, I’m taking it upon my shoulders to make things better to the extents that I can. I believe silence is no longer an option. We adult media creators have to start speaking up. Because living with the certainty of instability is not fun.
