The age-verification laws that prompted Pornhub blockades are part of a movement seeking to return to a time when obscenity laws were thinly veiled curbs on LGBTQ+ rights.
The panic over porn has spread through the South, with Pornhub’s parent company Aylo cutting off access to its sites in states that have instituted age-verification requirements: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South …
