All the states Pornhub is blocked in as of December 2025

Updated: December 2, 2025, 1:11pm EST This article has been updated to reflect the enactment of Missouri’s age-verification law.

Explicit tube site Pornhub is now blocked in 23 US states.

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

Age verification won’t work to keep minors away from porn sites, according to a preliminary study. This is due to software like VPNs that allow someone to be in a different location, and due to non-compliant websites. (Florida’s attorney general is suing foreign-based porn sites for not introducing age verification.) Still, these laws keep getting passed — and are encroaching on non-explicit websites too, experts told Mashable.

While Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is blocked in these states, a Pornhub representative confirmed to Mashable:

• alabama

• Arizona

• arkansas

• Florida

• Georgia

• idaho

• Indiana

• kansas

• kentucky

• mississippi

• missouri

• 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 established age verification methods do not apply to a provider of an interactive computer service (Aiello considers itself a provider).

In Louisiana, where users must submit an ID to visit Pornhub, the site has seen a nearly 80 percent drop in traffic, Aiello ( Pornhub’s parent company) told Mashable.

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

In a statement to Mashable, Aiello continued:

First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any legislation to this effect must protect user safety and privacy, and effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults.

Unfortunately, the approach many jurisdictions around the world have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, disorganized, and dangerous. Any regulation that requires hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user security at risk. Furthermore, as experience has shown, unless properly enforced, users will easily access non-compliant sites or find other ways to circumvent these laws.

Industry experts say that, in addition to not working for their intended purpose, age verification laws also create concerns about privacy protections and security because websites now have to host (even more) people’s personal information. It will be harder to remain anonymous online, which experts warn is dangerous to freedom of expression. Adult industry experts Mashable spoke to in an explainer on age-verification laws advocate for device-level filters, as Aiello said in his statement.

Some in the adult industry are worried about what a second Trump presidential term will bring because of the conservative policy framework Project 2025 and measures to ban porn. Russell Watt, one of the authors of Project 2025, was caught in a secret recording saying that age-verification laws are a “back door” to a broader porn ban.