A news story today made me wonder if I had woken up in 1955, in the starched and sexually repressed world of Back to the Future or Pleasantville. I snapped back to reality as I realized I was reading it online, on Huffington Post:
A major online payment processor is refusing to handle credit card payments for a startup condom company.
A representative for Chase Paymentech, the payment processing platform offered by JPMorgan Chase, told Lovability founder Tiffany Gaines over the phone this week that the company considers it a "reputational risk" to handle online payments for condoms, which it classifies as an "adult-oriented product."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/23/1286853/-JPMorgan-Chase-Refuses-to-Process-Payments-for-Female-Entrepreneurs-Condom-Company?detail=email
A major online payment processor is refusing to handle credit card payments for a startup condom company.
A representative for Chase Paymentech, the payment processing platform offered by JPMorgan Chase, told Lovability founder Tiffany Gaines over the phone this week that the company considers it a "reputational risk" to handle online payments for condoms, which it classifies as an "adult-oriented product."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/23/1286853/-JPMorgan-Chase-Refuses-to-Process-Payments-for-Female-Entrepreneurs-Condom-Company?detail=email