Patreon Stepping Up Crackdown on NSFW Kink Content, Users Claim

CYBERSPACE—Users of the crowdfunding site Patreon say that the platform is quietly cracking down on porn and other erotic content, singling out a particular type of kink content for a “zero tolerance policy,” according to a report by the tech site The Next Web. Earlier this week, a Patreon user took to Twitter to circulate a notice from the site, explaining that Patreon now bans crowdfunding for artwork that depicts “forced transformation and sexual slavery,” among other, similar kinks. The Twitter post by user Hypno Changer included a notice allegedly from Patreon’s management, detailing a “zero tolerance for the glorification of sexual violence.” The notice went to define “sexual violence” as including “feminization, sissification, bimbofication, expansion, and muscle growth.” In the Twitter post, Hypno Changer stated that “a fellow artist” had received that notice from Patreon, but The Daily Dot reported this week that it had confirmed that artist to be “Mr. Phoenyxx,” whose Patreon page describes him as a creator of “Bimbofication comics where a fairly plain or normal woman gets transformed, through various means, into a super sexy, insanely stacked, mega babe.” The artist’s page goes on to explain that his comic strips are “pure fantasy, and are meant to create over-sexualized bodies that simply cannot exist in reality.” But the artist also goes on to say that the comics also cover a wide gamut of “transformation fetishes” including “just about anything else that involves in any way a fairly normal individual turning into an unbelievably endowed, super sexy, paragon of lust and sensuality.” According to a later post by Hypno Changer, creators of “hypnosis content” have also received warnings from Patreon telling them that their artwork was banned from the site. “They suddenly decided that hypnosis and mind control; even completely unrealistic depictions of it, even MAGIC which cannot be emulated in real life "glorify sexual violence" and can no longer be funded on their platform,” Hypno Changer wrote. Patreon itself has yet to publicly comment on the alleged crackdowns on kink content that fall under the site’s definition of “sexual violence,” but news of the ban comes about six months after the social media blogging site Tumblr banned all adult content from its platform, which had once served as a haven for erotic art and self-expression, as AVN.com reported.  Photo By Eric Stanton / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain