All the states Pornhub is blocked in as of 2025

UPDATED: November 7, 2025, 3:29 p.m. EST This article has been updated in light of the enactment of Arizona and Ohio age verification laws.

Explicit tube site Pornhub is now blocked in 22 US states.

This is due to age verification laws. These laws vary from state to state, but generally require visitors to a site containing more than one-third explicit content to submit a government ID or other form of age authentication. Louisiana was the first state to pass such a bill a few years ago, and others have now followed suit. In June, the Supreme Court ruled Texas’ age verification law constitutional, setting precedent for earlier and later bills.

According to a preliminary study, age verification will not keep minors away from pornographic sites. This is due to software like VPNs that allow someone to appear in a different location and non-compliant websites. (Florida’s attorney general is suing foreign porn sites for failing to institute age verification.) Yet these laws continue to be passed — and also encroach on non-explicit websites, experts told Mashable.

Although Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is in these states, a Pornhub representative 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 despite the state’s age verification law, due to a clause stating that establishing age verification methods does not apply to an interactive computer service provider (Aylo considers itself one).

In Louisiana, where users must show ID to view Pornhub, the site saw its traffic drop by about 80 percent, Aylo (Pornhub’s parent company) told Mashable.

“These people haven’t stopped looking for porn. They’ve simply migrated to darker corners of the Internet that don’t ask users to verify their age, don’t follow the law, don’t take user safety seriously, and often don’t even moderate content. In practice, the laws have simply made the Internet more dangerous for adults and children,” Aylo said when asked for comment by Mashable in January.

In a statement to Mashable, Aylo continued:

First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve the safety and privacy of users and must effectively protect children from access to adult content.

Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions around the world have chosen to implement age verification is inefficient, haphazard and dangerous. Any regulation requiring hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information puts user security at risk. Additionally, as experience has shown, unless these laws are properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods to circumvent these laws.

Industry experts say that in addition to not working for their intended purposes, age verification laws also raise privacy and security concerns because websites must now host (even more) people’s personal information. It will be harder to be anonymous online, which experts say is dangerous for free speech. Adult industry experts spoke to Mashable in an explainer on age verification laws advocating for device-level filters, as did Aylo in her statement.

Some in the adult industry are concerned about what Trump’s second presidential term will bring because of the conservative policies of Project 2025 and its measures to ban pornography. One of the authors of the 2025 Project, Russell Vought, was captured on a secret recording declaring that age verification laws are the “backdoor” to a broader ban on pornography.