RICHMOND, Va. — New laws mandating age verification for adult websites in Virginia and Mississippi, passed by both states’ legislatures earlier this year, will take effect on Saturday.

Sites that do not age-verify users in those states as prescribed by the laws “will be liable for civil suits should a minor access — and be harmed by — content on the site,” Free Speech Coalition warned on Friday.

As XBIZ reported, the Mississippi law was sponsored by Republican state Sen. Nicole Boyd (Oxford), who has also been tasked by that state’s Republican governor with “mapping out what the next chapter of the pro-life agenda should be.” 

Boyd met with Louisiana Senate President Pro Tem Beth Mizell to craft a copycat version of Louisiana’s controversial Act 440. That age verification measure, championed by religious anti-porn therapist and legislator Laurie Schlegel (R-Matairie), became state law in Louisiana on Jan. 1.

“I was shocked at the prevalence of pornography among our teen population,” Boyd told the Mississippi Senate.

Unlike Louisiana, which had a digital driver’s license program in place to help with compliance, Mississippi’s mobile ID provider “does not offer website operators the functionality to remotely validate IDs,” the FSC noted.

According to the adult industry trade group, the Virginia version of the age verification law also defines material “harmful to minors” differently than most states.

“Oddly,” the FSC pointed out, “it includes ‘non-opaque clothing’ and ‘sadomasochistic abuse.’”

“It’s not a question of if these will be declared unconstitutional, but when,” FSC Director of Public Affairs Mike Stabile told XBIZ on Friday. “Keeping kids from accessing adult content is an admirable goal, but writing laws meant to punish the industry, without consulting with the industry — or even people familiar with technology — is a recipe for laws that are ineffective and dangerous.”

As in Utah and Louisiana, Stabile added, “these laws punish compliant sites while encouraging the growth of illegal sites and pirated content.”

A Regulatory Minefield Designed by Anti-Porn Crusaders

According to FSC, Virginia’s law is “extremely vague regarding the methods sites can use to comply. It allows for ‘a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification’ or ‘another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification.’”

The FSC also released suggestions for website operators trying to navigate the regulatory minefield set up for them by anti-porn politicians and lobbies.

“While we’re looking at potential challenges to these laws, everyone’s risk tolerance is different,” the FSC pointed out. “There are several options for website operators subject to AVS mandates.”

Earlier today, Pornhub decided to shut down access to its platform in Virginia and Mississippi, explaining that the new state laws — drafted with the cooperation of groups that have targeted the site specifically and whose avowed goal is to “eradicate pornography” — present too much risk.

Pornhub previously followed the same strategy in Utah, shutting down site access in that state when another copycat version of the Louisiana law went into effect there.

The sponsor of the Arkansas copycat bill, Sen. Tyler Dees (R-Siloam Springs), admitted in February that the state-by-state age verification initiatives are merely a stepping stone toward the ultimate goal of a federal mandate.

“My hope is that we protect children and their innocence in [the] state of Arkansas and then send a message across the country that we need something similar built into federal law as well,” Dees declared.

FSC has called the current Republican campaign against adult material online, including the copycat age verification schemes, “the most aggressive censorship we’ve seen in decades.”

For XBIZ’s June cover feature with an in-depth look at age verification legislation, click here.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Ainsley Adams stars with Eli Thomas in the latest FMN.Network scene, “Threesome With a Doll.”

“Ainsley Adams brings in her sex toy to prove that she can bring more pleasure than inanimate rubber dicks,” the synopsis reveals. “She’s going to put Eli Thomas to the test and they definitely pass with flying colors.”

The scene is streaming on FMN.Network.

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Jun 30, 2023 4:09 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — Brandi Love has earned an Urban X Awards nomination for MILF Performer of the Year.

“Thanks for nominating me,” said Love. “I truly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. It would mean the world to me to win this award. Please vote for me.”

In related news, Love has also released a new clip on her OnlyFans this week. The addition to her “Seven Minutes Strokes” series features her doing laundry in lingerie and masturbating.

“Fans love these clips,” she said. “This one is the hottest yet. Check it out.”

Cast votes for the 2023 Urban X Awards here.

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Jun 30, 2023 4:07 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — Blush Erotica has released a new solo and G/G combo scene starring Juliana Dreams and Luna Lark.

Directed by Blush Erotica COO Stacy Lyle and shot by The Sinematographer, “Tub for Two” features an erotic story by D.A. Wright, narrated by Siv Auracle.

“Swept up by each other in Paris, Juliana Dreams is surprised by her girlfriend Luna Lark with the most wonderful tub for two,” revealed the synopsis. “Fast forward a year later, Juliana is putting on a solo show for Luna trying to recreate the magic they made in the perfect tub.”

Lyle enthused about the duo’s performance.

“Like a symphony of talent and chemistry, these two intertwine their sensuality for the audience, creating a beautiful, graceful and sexy scene,” she said.

The scene is streaming on BlushErotica.

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Jun 30, 2023 4:05 PM PDT

MIAMI — MYLF has released three new scenes this week across its network of sites.

First, Summer of 60 Nine makes her MYLF debut in “A Ginger to Spoil” from Shag Street. According to the synopsis, when Summer gets stood up by her date, Marcus London approaches her and offers to take her on a shopping trip to forget about her troubles. “Later, the two head over to Marcus’ place where Summer shows her appreciation for Marcus’ generosity,” revealed a rep.

Aderes Quin and Lexi Stone are featured in “Last Day in LA” from Milf Taxi. After chatting with their cab driver, Calvin Hardy, the two friends put on a show for him in the backseat.  

Finally, Alexa Payne, Krissy Knight and Nicky Rebel star in FreeUse Milf’s holiday episode, “Happy FreeUse Fourth of July.”

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Jun 30, 2023 4:04 PM PDT

NEW YORK — Emma Rose is the latest guest on both “The Bi Guys” podcast, hosted by Ian Fidance and Zac Amico, and The “Manwhore Podcast” with Billy Procida.

Both podcasts feature discussions about Rose’s life on and off camera, with “The Manwhore Podcast” touching on the story of her ex-boyfriend’s first time dating a trans woman, her stripping and sugaring past, queerness, shooting with gay talent and her fondness for hiking.

“I had such a wonderful time on my first New York City media tour,” said Rose. “It was so fast-paced, hilarious, invigorating and exhausting, just like the city itself.”

View “The Bi Guys” episode on YouTube and listen to “The Manwhore Podcast” on Spotify.

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Jun 30, 2023 4:03 PM PDT

DAYTONA, Fla. — Bella Bare has partnered with Playhard Management Group to launch her new subscription site.

The site, designed by Jay Playhard, features clips directed by Bare’s husband, The Remedy.

“I have known Jay from the very beginning of my journey,” Bare said. ”We have shot several scenes together and they have all been great scenes. He is an integral character in my ‘Sex College’ and ‘The Cheating Wife’ series. Both are available for viewing on the site now.”

For more information, visit ThePetiteProfessorXXX. 

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LOS ANGELES — Pleasure brand The Oh Club has debuted The Silent Partner U-Shaped Couples Vibrator.

The nine-mode vibrator features a whisper-quiet motor and is made from body-friendly silicone.

“Featuring an ergonomic and flexible shape, The Silent Partner effortlessly enhances connection and intimacy,” said a rep. “Its thoughtfully crafted design ensures comfort and ease of use, allowing couples to explore new levels of pleasure with confidence and excitement.”

The Oh Club CEO Devin Shanahan enthused about the vibe.

“Our ergonomic toys and sex accessories are meticulously designed to enhance pleasure and foster deeper connections, whether you’re enjoying them alone or with a partner,” he said. “We invite everyone to join us as we embrace a new chapter in pleasure and intimacy with The Silent Partner.”

For more information, visit TheOhClub.

TOPEKA, Kansas — “Manhood,” the new book by the controversial U.S. Senator for Kansas Josh Hawley, features an extended chapter entitled “Cheap Sex” in which the Republican politician asserts that “nothing could be more timid or weak, more sterile, than a man, alone, staring at porn on his phone.”

Hawley, who has long made anti-porn activism part of his political posturing, shared his musings on how other men masturbate as part of his treatise on masculine prowess.

Over two years after being seen running away from the angry mob he had encouraged during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the Kansas senator offers in “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs” some of his many thoughts on the ways in which men — especially single men — use their own hands to achieve orgasm.

“There is no risk involved, no exposure to hardship or danger in the least” in masturbation, Hawley — who has no professional training in any discipline concerning human sexuality — rhapsodized.

Hawley quoted right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+ University of Texas, Austin academic Mark Regnerus, who referred to cheap sex.

Regnerus’ work has been a subject of inquiry by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that focuses on political extremism.

Hawley claims that porn “cheapens everyone involved.”

Hawley’s ‘Manhood’ Obsessed With Others’ Masturbation

Hawley’s “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs” was described by the Kansas City Star last month as “less of a manifesto and more of a sermon, or pep-talk, geared at inspiring men to refocus their lives by placing others before themselves.”

As XBIZ has reported, Hawley claims that “liberals” push people “to watch Pornhub more.”

“What I mean, literally, is that I think the liberal attack, the left-wing attack on manhood, says to men, ‘You’re part of the problem,’” Hawley told an interviewer in 2021. “It says that your masculinity is inherently problematic, it’s inherently oppressive.”

When pressed on precisely what the left has done that has led to more porn consumption, Hawley cited a “policy of deindustrialization” that he claimed has left millions of men “idle,” presumably leaving their idle hands to do the devil’s work.

“You have 16 million men, Mike, who are idle, who don’t have anything to do,” he continued. “Partly that’s their own responsibility, but also it’s partly because jobs have dried up in many cities across America and rural areas, too. I think you put together lack of jobs, you put together fatherlessness, you put together the social messages that we teach our kids in our schools, and you gotta control that and its effects.”

However, since 2002 — the senator’s entire adult life — both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Missouri state legislature, responsible for passing laws concerning economic policy and education in his state, have been controlled by Hawley’s own Republican party.

A Supposed Conspiracy of ‘Epicureans’

In the book, Hawley repeats his long-held, eccentric theory that “Epicureans” — supposed devotees of an ancient Greco-Roman philosophy that the senator thinks foregrounds pleasure — are attempting to change Christian values.

“That is what porn leads to: men as androgynous consumers, beyond manhood, beyond sex even, staring at screens, alone,” Hawley theorizes. “It is no coincidence that even as men’s porn consumption explodes, family formation is collapsing. American men are simply having less sex in favor of the cheap, virtual substitute. The problem is, men like that aren’t really men at all.

“There is a nobility to be won in rejecting porn, and personal confidence too,” Hawley concludes, agreeing with the online communities that fetishize semen retention as a means to masculine improvement.

Jun 29, 2023 4:09 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS — Goddess Lilith has released five new clips this week on her official website.

The first clip features Lilith alongside Amber in a BDSM G/G strap-on scene.

Miss Erin Marie and Ty the Gentleman are featured in three clips for Lilith’s “Bootlicker’s Training” series.

Lilith’s final clips showcase her softer side with soothing Goth Girl ASMR and nail tapping.

“My exclusive members’ site is the only place to find all my new scenes,” said Lilith. “My biggest fans will make an account on my site and subscribe monthly for special bonus content that isn’t available anywhere else on the web.”
 
View the clips on QueenGoddessLilith.

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