WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court held today the Texas age-verification law commonly referred to as H.B. 1181 is properly evaluated under the standard of intermediate scrutiny – and survives that review, as it “has only...

CANOGA PARK, Calif. – In a blog post published yesterday, the Free Speech Coalition provided an update and primer on a handful of lawsuits filed in Kansas, alleging violations of the state’s age verification law. “In four lawsuits filed on May 12, 2025, a minor identified as...

In a statement issued this week, several prominent members of the adult entertainment industry and a representative from the Woodhull Freedom Foundation asserted that new states laws being passed around the country “are targeting queer people and crippling a legal industry.”...

Successful and active adult companies are always looking for new tools that provide an edge. How can we get more done with fewer people, maybe even fewer financial resources? Most of us are looking to AI for answers, and ChatGPT has rolled out a new “Internal Knowledge” feature...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an overwhelming 409-2 vote (with 22 members not voting), the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks” (“TAKE IT DOWN”) Act, a bill requiring...

In what the UK regulatory agency described as a “major milestone,” OfCom published yesterday a new policy statement detailing new rules established following consultation with “companies, children’s safety campaigners and other organizations – as well as children and their...

DENVER, Colo. – Colorado SB 201, an age-verification bill that would have required any website with material deemed “harmful to children” to pay for both age-verification of users and audits of third-party age-verification providers, has failed to secure a Senate vote following...

AUSTIN, Texas – I’ve been reading about SB 3003 and HB 1549, two Texas bills that seek to further restrict and regulate the sale of “obscene devices” in the state. And no, they don’t mean keychains that make fart sounds when you squeeze them; by “obscene devices” they mean the...

AUSTIN, Texas – Two bills currently under consideration in Texas, SB 3003 and HB 1549, might be newly proposed legislation, but there’s nothing new about the state seeking to strictly regulate the advertising, sale and distribution of sex toys and other adult products. Submitted...

PIERRE, S.D. – In a private signing ceremony held yesterday, South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden signed into law HB 1053, formally titled “An Act to require age verification by websites containing material that is harmful to minors, and to provide a penalty therefor.” “As parents,...