Bans websites that "primarily offer sexually-oriented services" — your booking page qualifies.
Prohibited Uses
You may not incorporate Apple Pay into a website that: [...] Primarily offers or sells drug paraphernalia or sexually-oriented items or services
An escort booking site offering Apple Pay would directly violate this clause. The "primarily offers" language means any site where adult services are the main business.
Prohibited Uses
You may not incorporate Apple Pay into a website that: [...] Pornography
Pornography is banned as a separate line item — even marketing galleries with explicit imagery could trigger this.
Prohibited Uses — Enforcement
Apple reserves the right at any time to disable Apple Pay transactions on your websites for any reason it deems prudent.
Apple can disable your Apple Pay integration unilaterally at any time — no hearing, no appeal.
Apple Pay's Acceptable Use Guidelines explicitly ban websites that "primarily offer sexually-oriented items or services." This means you cannot integrate Apple Pay as a payment option on an escort booking site or any adult service website. The enforcement is at the website level — even if clients want to pay via Apple Pay, offering it on your site violates Apple's terms. This is primarily a concern for providers building their own booking websites or apps. For peer-to-peer payments (a client sending you money via Apple Pay from their phone to yours), the situation is different — Apple doesn't monitor individual P2P transfers the way they monitor merchant integrations. But you cannot advertise "I accept Apple Pay" on an escort website without risking your merchant integration being disabled.
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