UPDATE: Nov. 7, 2025, 3:29 p.m. EST This article has been updated given the enactment of Arizona and Ohio's age-verification laws.

The explicit tube site Pornhub is now blocked in 22 U.S. states.

This is due to age-verification laws . These laws vary state by state, but typically require visitors of a site with over a third of explicit content to submit a government ID or other form of age authentication. Louisiana was the first state to enact such a bill a couple of years ago, and now others have followed suit. In June, the Supreme Court deemed Texas's age-verification law constitutional, setting a precedent for such bills that come before and after.

According to one preliminary study, age verification won't work to keep minors off porn sites. This is because of software lik

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