“In the fall of 2002, I was a budding entrepreneur, launching my very own porno website. At 20 years old I was wide eyed, naive, and rather ignorant about the workings of the adult industry. But a few weeks into my tenure as a pornographer, Visa and MasterCard made an announcement that forced me to wise up quick—and that shaped the way the adult industry, and anyone who works in sex, has done business online ever since…”

link: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-sex-workers-get-paid