*PornHub banned in Arizona

[Pepper Young]

I innocently clicked onto PornHub only to be confronted with a "Dear User" notice. Unbeknown to me, my legislators in Phoenix now require age verification to access grainy three minute porn videos. Finally, someone is thinking about the children! That is, besides cutting their free meals in school, and child health care subsidies, which isn't nearly as important than banning porn. So is this just the beginning of a crackdown on porn? Has anybody else experienced this?  

[+ MikeThomas]

Nothing new here.  A number of states have age verification requirements.

AI generated...

As of October 2025, there are 25 U.S. states that have passed laws requiring age verification to access online adult content, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.These laws mandate that websites offering pornography implement reasonable age verification methods before users can access the material.  

[56harrisond]

 

[+ PhileasFogg]

Try being in Mississippi.  VPN is the workaround.  I become German very quickly 

[+ purplekow]

1 hour ago, MikeThomas said:

Nothing new here.  A number of states have age verification requirements.

AI generated...

As of October 2025, there are 25 U.S. states that have passed laws requiring age verification to access online adult content, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.These laws mandate that websites offering pornography implement reasonable age verification methods before users can access the material.  

Not a blue state among them.  Blue as in politics and as in porn.  

[marylander1940]

1 hour ago, Pepper Young said:

I innocently clicked onto PornHub only to be confronted with a "Dear User" notice. Unbeknown to me, my legislators in Phoenix now require age verification to access grainy three minute porn videos. Finally, someone is thinking about the children! That is, besides cutting their free meals in school, and child health care subsidies, which isn't nearly as important than banning porn. So is this just the beginning of a crackdown on porn? Has anybody else experienced this?  

First, they came for porno.... 

[jeezifonly]

Lots of idle hands in The Grand Canyon State.

(Some may find a way to make their canyon feel grand)

[+ BOZO T CLOWN]

1 hour ago, purplekow said:

Not a blue state among them.  Blue as in politics and as in porn.  

That's simply not true. Virginia is a blue state. And Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina all have democrat Governors. Also, keep in mind that we are not supposed to be discussing politics here.
And protecting minors from internet pornography should be something that is apolitical, uniting all of us.

BTC
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[marylander1940]

I'm not comfortable giving my ID or a picture in order to access a pornographic website in VA. I have a friend in Mclean, VA, this requirement goes on and off based on how popular the site is. My friend just sent me this screenshot while he was trying to access Pornhub from his home. 

Considering the hobby that brought us together in this site.... are we next? 

[maninsoma]

I'm not in a state impacted by this, but in addition to the VPN work around I understand that these new state laws mostly impact the more popular/heavily trafficked sites.  By that I mean that while PornHub has to comply, a smaller, less well known website might not. 

I get wanting to restrict access to porn to adults only, but shouldn't the onus be on the parents of children and not all of society?  It's easy enough to restrict access on your own devices and/or your home network.  Obviously kids could just access this stuff elsewhere (such as a friend whose parents don't bother using tools to limit access), but that was true even 50 years ago because I remember some boys in my class getting access to porn magazines (shoplifted or from an older sibling).  If the government wants the onus to be on the websites to restrict access, maybe they should have put more thought into privacy and data security.  I don't blame anyone in any of these states for looking into alternatives to scanning their driver's license and uploading it to a site like PornHub.

[+ jeezopete]

My state was one of the first to restrict Pornhub access, but there are enough alternative sites that I can still access without age verification that I haven't missed it at all.

[+ MikeThomas]

Pornhub is also restricted in parts of Europe, including the UK and France.

[Peter Eater]

On 10/2/2025 at 5:22 PM, MikeThomas said:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.

Not one of them is a state I would want to live in. And the Bible Belt is a reliable place for this sort of idiocy, especially since it is where the highest rates of child abuse occur and these b.s. laws give them cover. 
https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/national-statistics-on-child-abuse/

 

[marylander1940]

2 hours ago, Peter Eater said:

Not one of them is a state I would want to live in. And the Bible Belt is a reliable place for this sort of idiocy, especially since it is where the highest rates of child abuse occur and these b.s. laws give them cover. 
https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/national-statistics-on-child-abuse/

 

Not only that but poverty, obesity, lack of social mobility, hopeless, racism, etc by all means not a example for the rest of the country.