Seven states push to require ID for watching porn online

TL;DR

decades of America fretting over minors potentially being overexposed to pornography online, several states are suddenly moving fast in 2023 to attempt to keep kids off porn sites by passing laws requiring age verification. ” In Arkansas, violating content includes “actual, simulated, or animated displays” of body parts like nipples or genitals, touching or fondling of such body parts, as well as sexual acts like “intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions,” or other sex acts deemed to have no “literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to minors. That bill warns that exposing minors to pornography can negatively impact minors’ brain function and development, exacerbate their emotional or medical issues, trigger deviant sexual arousal, promote harmful sexual behaviors, and cause self-esteem issues or body image disorders in minors

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