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On June 30th this year, Pornhub, America's most trafficked adult website announced that it was blocking access in Mississippi, Virginia, and Utah.

Why?

Well, Pornhub was reacting to the passage of age verification laws in those three states.

Similar laws passed in Louisiana, Texas,

Montana, and Arkansas, leading Politico to declare that a simple law is doing the impossible.

It's making the porn industry retreat. The industry is fighting back, however, and won a preliminary

injunction against Texas's law. Reasons

Liz Wolf and I talked about these developments with Aila, a former only fan star,

an outspoken libertarian defender of sex workers, who leverages her sizable social media following

to run sex polls and surveys, the results of which she

analyzes in depth and publishes on her blog knowing less. In this conversation, we discussed

A-list sex surveys, delved into the psychological literature examining online porn consumption,

unpacked the privacy implications of age verification

laws, and talked about a recent debate Ayla attended hosted by the free press and fire, which

asked, was the sexual revolution a failure? Here's the reason interview with Ayla.

Ayla, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you for having me on.

Well, let's start by looking at Pornhub's response to the AIDS verification laws that have

been passing.

They posted this, as I mentioned, on June 30th and said, because elected officials from around the U.S. who started to

introduce laws aimed at preventing children from accessing materials harmful to minors online,

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