Personal values around privacy don’t always follow logic. While I’m sure some employ a VPN coupled with whatever measures for safeguarding information they have available when—uh—inspiration strikes, I’d guess the security care for most consuming porn doesn’t extend far beyond trying to exit out of virus-carrying pop-ups at rapid speed, and entering faux emails where required. If “they” know the exact pair of sneakers you were eyeing last month, “they” probably also know what kind of porn you like. But giving “them” your information is far different from letting them take it.

A new law in Louisiana requires porn sites to install age-verification technology. Signed by the state’s Democratic governor John Bel Edwards, the law took effect on January 1 this year. Louisiana-based users have already seen its effects on Pornhub, where, upon entering the site, they are prompted to connect to AllPassTrust, a third-party identity verification site that connects to a digital driver’s license. Pornhub guarantees that their site does not retain that data, but sex workers are understandably concerned that this is part of a larger effort towards censorship that will affect their livelihoods, and broader cultural relationships to sex.

It’s not that sex workers are concerned they will go broke if they lose the eyes of curious pre-teens. Rather, it’s that this extra verification is a complication for their 18+ viewership, as the added step—or any loss of trust in the privacy of such measures—is a very real stopping block for some. And those third-party sites, like AllPassTrust, that are broadly deemed trustworthy are expensive, making them more accessible for big sites and less so for independent platforms, furthering Pornhub’s already growing potential for monopoly in the industry.

“Pornhub guarantees that their site does not retain that data, but sex workers are understandably concerned that this is part of a larger effort towards censorship that will affect their livelihoods, and broader cultural relationships to sex.”

Louisiana’s law was introduced in an effort to keep material that’s harmful away from minors—defined as appealing to prurient interest and consisting of “pubic hair, anus, vulva, genitals, or nipple of the female breast; Touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals; Sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation; flagellation, secretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act,” and lacking in “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”

Apparently, the honor system hasn’t held up, and people under 18 have, in fact, been clicking through that “Yes, I am 18+” prompt. The representative who introduced the law, Laurie Schlegel, works as a counselor for those seeking sex addiction treatment. “Pornography is destroying our children and they’re getting unlimited access to the internet,” she told WAFB. Perhaps, if sex education was more expansive, stumbling across an explicit video wouldn’t pose such a threat to the well-being of young people. And there is no evidence that sex addiction functions in the same ways that substance addiction does, but it’s often attributed as a cause for sexual assault, mass shootings, and the type of misogyny that breeds communities like those of incels.

“Online pornography is extreme and graphic and only one click away from our children,” Schlegel, wrote. “This is not your daddy’s Playboy.” These days, “daddy” probably doesn’t keep Playboys around, that his kid might stumble upon in the throes of puberty—he probably uses Pornhub.