There Are No (More) 17-Year-Olds at Club Seventeen

Club Seventeen was the first porn site I ever joined, back in the late 90s. They were an innovator from the ultra-horny land of the Dutch; they had great stuff at a time when we Americans were still diddling around with stupid, crappy San-Fernando-Valley-wannabe material.

The Club Seventeen website actually grew out of a magazine that started in the 1970s. It has one of the most robust porn pedigrees in the world.

For a while Club Seventeen was vague about the age of their models. They had a disclaimer that said that all models were “of legal age in the Netherlands”. If you looked up what that age was– and there are lots and lots of sites on the Internet that list “age of consent” by country– you come up with a number that showed that seventeen-year-old models would have been alright.

But then the American government declared for the world that the legal age of porn would be 18. How did they do it? By way of Visa and Mastercard! The American authorities made clear to the credit card companies that they couldn’t process transactions from porn sites unless the sites complied with the 18-year-old minimum age and U.S. record-keeping requirements. It didn’t matter one bit what country the porn site and its models were in.

It is a good solution tho’. Having a hard and fast rule that 18 is the age of consent for porn is helpful– it eliminates any uncertainty that might be in your mind when you are running a porn site. Does this model look too young? Is it OK if we put her in a high school cheerleader costume, and then have her get fucked while doing the pom-pom thang??? Sure can… as long as she is 18.

But this rule meant that Club Seventeen had to go through and clean out any of their seventeen-year-old and younger models. And now there are no more 17-year-olds to be found there. Still a great site tho’.

Club Seventeen