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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Two points, one practical, one marketing ($$$$):
1. The ONLY way to reduce (not prevent) minors from seeing online porn so readily is to force every adult website to be a paysite, even for $0.01, to be used as Age Verification. Meaning, when you hit a tour - be it tube, paysite, VOD, cam site, TGP, WHATever - you have to enter a credit card to see any of the good stuff. This would make ads on sites illegal, too (unless they were softcore/tease).
Bottom line: you wanna see "porn" then you gotta pay and get through the Age Verification firewall, period. ANY website not doing this will be shut down immediately. That IS (currently) the only way to accomplish a reduction (not total prevention) of free access to porn.
Now, here's the Best Part people:
2. Making porn LESS ACCESSIBLE equals more money. Cha-motherfucking-CHING. Make it HARDER to get your porn fix and you will pay for it. So we, as adult webmasters, affiliates, performers and all the rest, WE win, because we will make BANK if porn is harder to access.
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In germany it's similar for nearly 10 years. You may not show hardcore or even some kind of softcore (no genitals, no offensive texts). It's only allowed if you are sure the visitor is 18+. You can assure this via officially accepted AVS systems (i.e. user gets a pin via postal mail and has to enter that pin at the AVS system). But the webmasters didn't make more money, the lost 90% of their sales cause users just have to visit non-german sites to get what they want.
In general, I agree with you. But I doubt that will happen. They will only catch the small fishes and let the whales still make their money with tube sites.