New Year's Day has come and gone, which means Pornhub is now blocked in 17 U.S. states.

Florida’s 11-fold spike led all other states. In South Carolina and Tennessee, where Pornhub limited access the same day as in the Sunshine State, VPN demand jumped 171% and 40%, respectively.

A total of 19 U.S. states have enacted new laws impacting adult film platforms and popular gay hookup websites — some of ...

“We’re standing at the crossroads of some pretty significant internet law right now,” says Christopher Terry, associate ...

Age verification laws designed to block children from online porn sites are sweeping the US, Io Dodds writes. But do they ...

You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?” the jurist asked to laughter ...

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The high court held a hearing about a Texas law that requires age verification to access sexual content online, in a legal ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether Texas is violating the First Amendment by requiring age ...

During arguments for a case over a Texas law requiring age verification for pornographic websites, Supreme Court Justice ...

The justice asked if Pornhub was "like the old Playboy magazine" with "essays by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and ...

Searches for VPNs skyrocketed after Pornhub exited Florida at the start of 2025 over age-verification laws for adult websites.