Getting paid for erotica?

[YmaOHyd]

How about Patreon? Do they have anti-erotica terms of service?

EDIT: Looked into it and found the answer is "no"

I guess my real question is whether anyone has a satisfying degree of success (defined as income) on Patreon regarding erotic stories.

I think -- not 100% sure, but think -- @aimingtomisbehave33 is at the point where he's been able to support himself fully with his Patreon. @BreakTheBar is probably there or thereabouts too.

 

[CalBishForNow]

How about Patreon? Do they have anti-erotica terms of service?

EDIT: Looked into it and found the answer is "no"

I guess my real question is whether anyone has a satisfying degree of success (defined as income) on Patreon regarding erotic stories.

Yeah, I was going to mention Patreon until you beat me to it.

I know some writers here use it. Some even post their stories here after they've been on Patreon for a few months for paid subscribers. @antarctica77 comes to mind. Patreon displays a dollar figure per month a creator makes on their page, but I couldn't tell you if that's before or after they take their cut, how reliable it is, what the median/mean/mode is, or anything like that.

 

[CalBishForNow]

I think -- not 100% sure, but think -- @aimingtomisbehave33 is at the point where he's been able to support himself fully with his Patreon. @BreakTheBar is probably there or thereabouts too.

Based on their author page, it looks like aimingtomisbehave33 is doing it on Smashwords, not Patreon. And based on the link in BreakTheBar's Author page, I just learned that not all Patreon author pages display income, so that's news to me.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Based on their author page, it looks like aimingtomisbehave33 is doing it on Smashwords, not Patreon. And based on the link in BreakTheBar's Author page, I just learned that not all Patreon author pages display income, so that's news to me.

I guess he's closed it (hopefully because Smashwords is doing well). He used to do a lot of AI art of his characters for Patrons; you can still find spots where the content's been scraped if you google his username.