Greetings,

Well, all good things must come to an end. I was hoping to reach Museletter 500+, but that’s not going to happen.

I’m going to miss all of you, your comments, and showing off my art. Thank you for your years of support. I hope you have enjoyed our time of sharing art.

After reading over the verbiage of the law again, it was clear that my website may come under fire at a significant financial cost to me. I can’t risk my life savings to display my art. I owe it to my family to be vigilant and prioritize what is best for us. I found myself trying to read it like my art would not be a problem, because I wanted that to be the case so I could continue to share it with the world. Sometimes in the wee hours of the morning, I’ll wake up and have the best non-biased logical thoughts. I wish I could say that lasted all day. But I do take those thoughts to heart.

It became clear that I wanted things to be as they were. And the law was there to make sure I fell within the confines of the conservative religious world. I am neither, but I hold no power over this part of my destiny.

Here are a couple of points that really drive home the problem in the law.

Like many laws, there is a solution. All I would have to do is personally screen each user and secure a form of ID to make sure the user is 18+. There are just about 1000 subscribers to the Museletter, and that doesn’t count the casual surfer who would ask to see my website.

I considered just making it a super cheap pay site where the simple act of using a credit card could do the validation, but alas, kids under the age of 18 can get credit cards with co-signers with some card companies. So that wouldn’t work.

And there is a stipulation that one can not save the verification information, so how would I prove that I did all of that work if it was challenged?

The other problem is that anyone from anywhere on the planet could turn my website into the state, and it they came after me at $10k a day, if they won the case, any funds recovered from me would go to the person who turned in the site. Can you imagine the number of people who might see this as a career move and start a little adult website bounty system?

I could do like Pornhub and tell anyone from Arizona that their site isn’t available. Apparently, around 20 other states have passed or will pass similar laws. I don’t have an IT staff to figure out how to geo-fence my site.

The other thing I will very much miss is my training website. Almost 100 half-hour videos covering lighting, editing, and some marketing. I had to cancel 22 subscribers, and I’m issuing prorated refunds to the annual subscribers. I’ve had over 1500 people sign up and learn on that system since 2018. There is a passive income I’m losing, but helping others is the most significant loss.

The bottom line is that people teach their children that nudity is wrong. Especially in the US. Here’s my take on why that is. The one business that sells forgiveness relies on things that need to be forgiven. So, they look for simple things, like a woman’s nipples, and make that a sin. Hence, another thing they can sell forgiveness for. Notice it’s not men’s nipples. Men are deciding what is evil, so that makes sense.

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