Commentary

An opinion piece by Maggie MacDonaldsaying age verification for porn won’t keep children from harm, but will invade citizen’s privacy.

Opinion: Requiring age-verification for porn won’t save children from online harm. But it will invade our privacy

ID-authentication for adult-content viewers would simply smuggle restrictive telecommunications precedents from the U.S. into Canada, and push the whole industry underground

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YNOT’s Gene Zorkin opines that Florida’s HB3 will undoubtedly bring about legal challenges.

Life’s Certainties: Death, Taxes and Lawsuits Challenging Florida’s HB 3

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Alexandra Snow believes if Ohio’s porn ID bill passes that people in Ohio will be in danger of being hacked and swatted.

Ohioans will be hacked, swatted, if porn ID bill passes, adult industry veteran says

Ohio’s porn ID bill won’t protect kids. It will leave you at risk of being wrongly arrested, hacked stalked and doxxed, Alexandra Snow writes.

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Alabama’s anti-porn bill, HB164, introduced by Rep. Ben Robbins is criticized here in an opinion piece.

Analysis | Robbins’ anti-porn bill: A nocturnal fantasy for authoritarians

House Bill 164 would further damage Alabama’s national standing and would bring with it legal battles.

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The Texas AG has sued Aylo despite the challenge to its state age verification law.

YNOT NEWS | With Age Verification Law Under Challenge, Texas Barges Ahead Anyway

Texas has chosen to sue Aylo under a law that is actively being challenged in court and may very well not survive court scrutiny.

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Ben Suroeste opines on the war on porn and the claim porn and social media are addictive.

YNOT NEWS | Don’t Feel Bad, Porn Industry; Everything is “Addictive” These Days

Everything is addictive -- including social media platforms, dating apps, video games, porn and even typing utter nonsense on a keyboard.

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A W. Virginia anti-porn and age verification bill is demanding any site have less than a third porn. YNOT.com has an idea.

YNOT NEWS | Welcome to My Website – Now Only 33.32% Porn!

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – It used to be that adult websites didn’t have a lot of rules and regulations to follow, especially at the U.S. state-level. Or maybe it used to be that I just didn’t know how many rules and regulations there were that I was supposed to be following, and I was merely living in that blissful state of ignorance people often talk

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Gene Zorkin opines about being a Republican and bring a part of the adult industry.

YNOT NEWS | Conservative and Part of the Adult Industry? You Should Read This

Going back to when I first started working in and writing about the adult industry over 25 years ago, I’ve always been somewhat surprised by the number of people I’ve encountered within the industry who self-identify as conservative Republicans.

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JOSHUA B. GRUBBS, an addiction professor has debunked the theory that there is such a thing as porn addiction.

Is pornography really warping our brains, or is it a moral panic?

In decades gone by, pornography was limited to seedy theaters or stacks of Playboys in your uncle’s closet. Now, an immense array of sexual media is always at our fingertips via the internet. Given…

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Tennessee state Representative Patsy Hazlewood has proposed a bill not only requiring age verification to access porn sites, but also calling for criminal penalties for those who don’t comply.

Another State Lawmaker Wants To Criminalize Porn Through Age Verification

Here we go again, everyone. Another far-right state lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring age verification in order to access porn sites from within state limits. This time it is Tennessee state…

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