Overview

• Sixty-four percent of men under 25 now support making online pornography more difficult to access, up from about half in 2013.
• Gen Z men’s backing mirrors the 73% support among those over 65 while fewer than half of men aged 25 to 54 favor tighter controls.
• In June the Supreme Court upheld Texas’s 2023 law requiring age verification for commercial porn sites in a 6–3 decision.
• Nineteen states currently enforce age-verification requirements for porn websites and several others are advancing comparable bills.
• The shift among young men coincides with rising religiosity in Gen Z and academic calls to pair restrictions with enhanced digital sexual literacy.