*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.

[JayCeeKy]

Kentucky requires age verification. Signed into law by our governor, Andy Beshear. I have to subscribe to Surfshark to view ANY adult sites (or go through the verification process which often means surrendering my 4th Amendment rights like name and birth date) - and it's still a pain in the ass. I generally use an English-speaking country like New Zealand for my VPN, I still have to remember to disconnect for my web searches so that the results don't focus on companies in Johannesburg. 

[+ BOZO T CLOWN]

7 minutes ago, JayCeeKy said:

Kentucky requires age verification. Signed into law by our governor, Andy Beshear. I have to subscribe to Surfshark to view ANY adult sites (or go through the verification process which often means surrendering my 4th Amendment rights like name and birth date) - and it's still a pain in the ass. I generally use an English-speaking country like New Zealand for my VPN, I still have to remember to disconnect for my web searches so that the results don't focus on companies in Johannesburg. 

Surrendering your 4th amendment? That's ridiculous!
Have you ever flown in an airplane? You provide ID w/passport info when you book the flight, at the check-in counter, and again, at the gate. In most major cities, entering an office building requires submitting a valid photo ID at the Security desk. It's the same process when entering any government building. 
With the advent of the internet, there is no privacy anymore. Period. So please stop with these absurd straw man arguments about losing your privacy rights. They were lost a long time ago, thanks to Bill Gates and others.
Protecting our children from internet porn and smut is a far, far, far (you can add 100 "fars") greater priority than any false sense of privacy you think you may lose. That is just common sense. Many European countries and half of the US states have found this to be true. More will follow.

BTC
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[marylander1940]

5 minutes ago, BOZO T CLOWN said:

Surrendering your 4th amendment? That's ridiculous!
Have you ever flown in an airplane? You provide ID w/passport info when you book the flight, at the check-in counter, and again, at the gate. In most major cities, entering an office building requires submitting a valid photo ID at the Security desk. It's the same process when entering any government building. 
With the advent of the internet, there is no privacy anymore. Period. So please stop with these absurd straw man arguments about losing your privacy rights. They were lost a long time ago, thanks to Bill Gates and others.
Protecting our children from internet porn and smut is a far, far, far (you can add 100 "fars") greater priority than any false sense of privacy you think you may lose. That is just common sense. Many European countries and half of the US states have found this to be true. More will follow.

BTC
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Do you think your employers know about your hobby and therefore your true sexual orientation? 

Good thing people didn't find out this they get to go when it was still illegal not that hiring for sex  is legal at all..

 

[+ BOZO T CLOWN]

1 minute ago, marylander1940 said:

Do you think your employers know about your hobby and therefore your true sexual orientation? 

What does that have to do with anything? Another absurd comment.
At least 75% (probably closer to 90%) of Pornhub's content is straight porn. So if somehow Bozo's employer had the desire and ability to hack into Pornhub's data base (which is a felony under federal law), all that would indicate is that Bozo is a Pornhub subscriber. Period. And the odds of that happening are probably greater than one in a million. 
Any more straw man arguments you want to use to justify exposing our children to what's on Pornhub?

BTC
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[marylander1940]

5 minutes ago, BOZO T CLOWN said:

What does that have to do with anything? Another absurd comment.
At least 75% (probably closer to 90%) of Pornhub's content is straight porn. So if somehow Bozo's employer had the desire and ability to hack into Pornhub's data base (which is a felony under federal law), all that would indicate is that Bozo is a Pornhub subscriber. Period. And the odds of that happening are probably greater than one in a million. 
Any more straw man arguments you want to use to justify exposing our children to what's on Pornhub?

BTC
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For the 10th time I am all in favor of keeping children safe from all predators and pornography.

It's a cheap shot for you to constantly throw that on others as if you were holier than others just because of words...

Nobody said anything about you going on pornhub.... I'm talking about this site for gay and bisexual men who hire, something that is in a legal limbo to say it in the nicest way

Each family should allow children to access certain sites pre-approved, the technology already exists there. But forcing people to show their ID before accessing a pornographic website it's a slippery slow into losing more privacy to big government.

What's next?

 

 

[marylander1940]

8 minutes ago, Travis69 said:

One person just got fired for having a pride flag in their office.   

I am not surprised.

[marylander1940]

@BOZO T CLOWN

15 minutes ago, marylander1940 said:

I am not surprised.

Do you approve of someone being fired because of the gay flag. 

Maybe someone can just tell him that he's not allowed to do it before and remove the flag without firing him

 

[+ Travis69]

I might be wrong but I get the impression @BOZO T CLOWN has never lived or worked in a conservative environment.

[JayCeeKy]

I suggest that the simple souls who love simple answers on the age verification laws read Justice Kagan's dissent on the Texas ruling on the matter. Justice Kagan argued for strict scrutiny, not the majority's intermediate scrutiny, because the law directly regulates adult access to constitutionally protected speech based on its content, creating a significant burden and chilling effect by forcing adults to reveal private information and viewing habits. Arguing that showing your ID to get on airplane is equivalent to showing your ID to watch a porn video is truly ridiculous. 

[BSR]

5 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/

 

This has to be BS.  Crime data collection,  classification, and reporting is fragmented, incomplete, and at times outright broken.