Porn Site Age Checks Required by Growing Number of States

State laws directing Pornhub and other adult sites to ensure their users are at least 18 years old have triggered a thorny policy debate over whether the use of age verification is feasible to shield children from a broad array of sexual content available online.

Virginia, Mississippi, and Utah are the latest to follow Louisiana’s first-in-the-nation law that requires sites to verify the ages of people accessing content deemed harmful to minors. Pornhub, which operates one of the most visited websites in the US, implemented age checks in Louisiana but has blocked access to the site for users in the ...