This legislative trend started in 2022 with Louisiana's Act 440, which requires websites containing more than 33.3 percent 'material harmful to minors' to engage in age verification processes for each site user. But a wave of laws requiring specific forms of age verification for viewers of websites that depict or discuss sexuality is threatening to wipe out small studios and solo self-producers. For the first time in history, performers have the bulk of power in the porn industry.
