All of the states Pornhub is blocked in as of 2025

UPDATE: Nov. 7, 2025, 3:29 p.m. EST This text has been up to date given the enactment of Arizona and Ohio’s age-verification legal guidelines.

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

This is because of age-verification legal guidelines. These legal guidelines fluctuate state by state, however sometimes require guests of a web site with over a 3rd of specific content material to submit a authorities ID or different type of age authentication. Louisiana was the primary state to enact such a invoice a few years in the past, and now others have adopted go well with. In June, the Supreme Court docket deemed Texas’s age-verification regulation constitutional, setting a precedent for such payments that come earlier than and after.

In response to one preliminary research, age verification will not work to maintain minors off porn websites. That is due to software program like VPNs that permit somebody to look like in a distinct location, and due to non-compliant web sites. (The Florida lawyer basic is suing foreign-based porn websites for not instituting age verification.) But, these legal guidelines maintain getting handed — and are encroaching on non-explicit web sites as properly, consultants advised Mashable.

Whereas Pornhub will not be blocked in Louisiana, it’s blocked in these states, a Pornhub consultant confirmed to Mashable:

• Alabama

• Arizona

• Arkansas

• Florida

• Georgia

• Idaho

• Indiana

• Kansas

• Kentucky

• Mississippi

• Montana

• Nebraska

• North Carolina

• North Dakota

• Oklahoma

• South Carolina

• South Dakota

• Tennessee

• Texas

• Utah

• Virginia

• Wyoming

Pornhub is not blocked in Ohio regardless of the state’s age-verification regulation, resulting from a clause stating that establishing age verification strategies does not apply to a supplier of an interactive laptop service (Aylo considers itself one).

In Louisiana, the place customers should submit ID to view Pornhub, the location has seen visitors decline by round 80 p.c, Aylo (Pornhub’s guardian firm) advised Mashable.

“These individuals didn’t cease on the lookout for porn. They only migrated to darker corners of the web that do not ask customers to confirm age, that do not observe the regulation, that do not take consumer security significantly, and that usually do not even average content material. In apply, the legal guidelines have simply made the web extra harmful for adults and youngsters,” Aylo acknowledged when requested for remark by Mashable again in January.

In a press release to Mashable, Aylo continued:

First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of customers for years, however we consider that any regulation to this impact should protect consumer security and privateness, and should successfully shield youngsters from accessing content material meant for adults.

Sadly, the way in which many jurisdictions worldwide have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and harmful. Any rules that require tons of of 1000’s of grownup websites to gather vital quantities of extremely delicate private data is placing consumer security in jeopardy. Furthermore, as expertise has demonstrated, except correctly enforced, customers will merely entry non-compliant websites or discover different strategies of evading these legal guidelines.

Trade consultants say that, along with not working for his or her meant goal, age verification legal guidelines additionally increase issues about privateness safety and security since web sites now should host (much more of) individuals’s private data. It will likely be tougher to be nameless on-line, which consultants warn is harmful to free speech. Grownup business consultants Mashable spoke to in an explainer on age-verification legal guidelines advocated for device-level filters, as did Aylo in its assertion.

Some within the grownup business fear about what Trump’s second presidential time period will carry as a result of conservative coverage define Venture 2025 and its measures to ban porn. One in all Venture 2025’s authors, Russell Vought, was caught on a secret recording stating that age-verification legal guidelines are the “again door” to a broader porn ban.