Quote from dave You have to read the fine print in the TOS, this goes for all services you use.  I have no problem with using paypal, you have to know how to do it.   First you accept it as a gift, not a donation, not a subscription, not a recurring value, not a sale.  You make a button that goes through a generic named account that you use for all your paypal services. I use mine for all my sites all 27, they all get processed by the same account.  But it is done as a gift.  Then when that process is over and you grab the IPN values with your listener, at that point the paypal process is over, they could care less after that. You have the data so process the customers transaction on your end and your done.     The secret to not violating the pappal TOS is to not process it as a SALE from an adult website, if you flame yourself of course your going to violate the TOS.  But anyone can send you a gift from anywhere and from my experience it does not violate the TOS as i would never do that.   You can do the memberships manually and have a generic page outside your domain (even from another non adult domain) process the gift.     I believe (correct me if i am wrong) what they are saying in their TOS is that you cannot process a sale transaction for a adult product or an adult service sale using paypal.  But hey if i want to accept a gift from someone and in return give them some freedom on the site, thats is not a violation now is it.   Think of it this way,  if  someone wants to use their email address at paypal to send my email at paypal 10 bucks, paypal cannot tell me which website to give that gifter some time on, it is a legal transaction from person to person as a gift.   what i do with the money is my business.