Florida Residents are About to Lose Access to this Adult Entertainment Website

Florida will soon join a handful of other states that no longer have access to one of the biggest adult entertainment websites.

Pornhub will ban residents in the Sunshine State from accessing the website starting on January 1, 2025.

The move comes after much debate over age verification laws, the Daily Mail reported, specifically over a measure that requires adult websites to verify the age of users via government-issued IDs, licenses or similar documentation.

Tech website Gizmodo repored that Floridians visiting Pornhub will see a popup that warns them that they will lose access to the website in a matter of days.

The site added: "As it repeatedly promised, the GOP is fighting pornography. In many states, it's winning. In Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas, Montana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Utah, Mississippi, Virginia, and Louisiana, a citizen who wants to access an adult website has to prove they're 18 years old by showing a government ID."

You can read more about Pornhub pulling out of Texas here.

Gizmodo noted that Florida's law – HB3 – "is broad" and "requires a website that provides material that is 'harmful to minors' to provide a means of 'anonymous age verification' to its minors. What does it mean for material to be 'harmful to minors?' According to the law any material that 'the average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.'"

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill in March.