Zivity Removes User Age Verification; Aims To Increase Member Numbers?

"Female beauty showcase" site Zivity has apparently pulled the age verification requirement for new members. When I (and others) attemped to signup back in February via a Techcrunch invite link, we were prompted to enter credit card information. Zivity noted that the credit card information was used to verify that a member was over the legal age as Zivity has some nudity on the service.

Yesterday I received another invite (not requested by me) to Zivity and I clicked the link and sure enough the age verification was removed! I was able to signup directly and enter the site by just faking my age. I am not sure exactly when they removed the age verification but upon some searching, I haven't seen any reports as of yet.

When you signup for a Zivity account, you are provided with one "vote" (invited members receive two votes). Votes are the way that Zivity, the photographers and the models make money. You buy packs of 10 votes for $10 and then distribute the votes to the photographers and models you think have created the best photos. Zivity says the "artists" get 80% of every dollar spent on Zivity - not sure how that percentage is split between the photographer and the model.

From my browsing today, most of the members have used either their free vote(s) or no votes as of yet. The Zivity staff have placed what appears to be hundreds (or more) of votes across the site. It would be interesting to see how many actual paid votes have been placed (outside of Zivity staff and photographers). Here's a short example of founder Cyan Bannister's recent vote activity:

Photo sets are viewable only and you aren't paying for the ability to download full hi-res images like you can on most other "female beauty showcase" sites. I clicked on a random variety of models and I'd guess about 30% of the images on the service show any nudity. Zivity recently raised $7 million in venture capital funding.