Originally Posted by Forkbeard

Ironically there aren't many genuine legality issues with prose stories; obscenity is pretty much the only legal hook, and it's been many decades since anybody was successfully prosecuted for a textual obscenity in the USA.

That said, the timing is instructive. Pornhub got its billing taken away just a couple weeks before the xHamster stories went poof. And whatever you love or hate about Pornhub, the method by which they got attacked was not lost on other porn webmasters. Basically some anti-porn weirdos researched up the worst content they could find in a huge database of content, then turned it over to some pet media people for a coordinated attack of entirely-phony breathless dismay, noisy enough to get some attention at Visa and Mastercard.

It doesn't take a business genius to see that happen, look around at your own site, and ask "what's the worst shit on here that could let them do that to me?" Precisely because stories are pretty much "anything goes" from a legal perspective, it's no surprise when the Magic 8-Ball comes back with "Nuke your stories" every time you peer into the little window.