[ArGee]

Perhaps some are, but many require several levels of authentication

IMHO, with a little anecdotal evidence to back it up, this is a smoke screen. there is no such thing as an "honest" purveyor of porn. They do care to stay out of the way of law enforcement, but their real desire is to sell more. Healthy adults rarely purchase porn. The best way to keep a steady supply of customers is to arrest adolescents at their stage of sexual development. They set up an easily circumventable process and then say "Hey, I'm doing what I need to to keep kids out."

Shalom.

[Dimensio]

IMHO, with a little anecdotal evidence to back it up, this is a smoke screen. there is no such thing as an "honest" purveyor of porn. They do care to stay out of the way of law enforcement, but their real desire is to sell more.

An online pornography site is going to be hard-pressed to find lots of minors with access to their own credit cards. Yes, their motives for age-checks may be motivated heavily by existing laws, but so what?

As for a desire to "sell more" -- that's the desire of just about any company that sells a product or service. That's called "capitalism".