The explicit tube site Pornhub is now blocked in 25 U.S. states — half of the country. This is due to age-verification laws . These laws vary state by state, but typically require visitors to a site with over a third of explicit content to submit a government ID or other form of age authentication. Louisiana was the first state to enact such a bill a couple of years ago, and now others have followed suit. In June 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Texas's age-verification law was constitutional, setting a precedent for similar bills that came before and after. The best VPNs for Pornhub: Best for Porn ExpressVPN 30-day money-back guarantee Shop Now Best for security Proton VPN 30-day money-back guarantee Shop Now Best for beginners TunnelBear 30-day money-back guarantee Shop Now According to one preliminary study, age verification won't work to keep minors off porn sites. This is because of software like VPNs that allow someone to appear to be in a different location, and because of non-compliant websites. (The Florida attorney general is suing foreign-based porn sites for not instituting age verification.) Yet, these laws keep getting passed — and are encroaching on non-explicit websites as well, experts told Mashable. While Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is blocked in these states as of July 2026: Alabama Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia West Virginia Wyoming Pornhub isn't blocked in Ohio despite the state's age-verification law, due to a clause stating that establishing age verification methods doesn't apply to a provider of an interactive computer service (Aylo considers itself one). In Louisiana, where users must submit ID to view Pornhub, the site has seen traffic decline by around 80 percent, Aylo (Pornhub's parent company) told Mashable. "These people did not stop loo
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