Rather than approaching the issue of access to adult content logically, such as by requiring parental controls or content filters to be implemented at the device, browser, or ISP level, the Supreme Court recently ruled that individual states can pass their own laws requiring websites with adult content to verify the age of users accessing that content. This ruling makes little sense for a multitude of reasons.

First and foremost, the Internet is a global network. A website hosted in the United States is now subject to a patchwork of state laws, meaning it must comply with different age verification requirements depending on where the user is located. Meanwhile, an identical website hosted overseas, outside the jurisdiction of any U.S. state, is under no obligation to do the same. The end result is not better protection, but rather confusion and inconsistency. It's like trying to control the weather by regulating the size of umbrellas. A user who clicks on "Link A" might be forced to upload identification or navigate through age verification walls, while that same user can simply click "Link B", perhaps hosted in another country or even just registered differently, and bypass those restrictions entirely.

This border-control-for-a-cloud approach does not meaningfully prevent minors from accessing adult content. What it does do is punish lawful U.S. based websites, creators, and publishers. Instead of crafting national policy rooted in technological reality and civil liberties, the conservative-stacked Supreme Court majority has ignored precedent and the First Ammendment, pandered to a political moral panic, and enabled a state-by-state morality war online. If the actual goal was to reduce underage access to adult material, a nationwide, technologically sound solution, like device-level filters, opt-in restrictions at the network level, or tools empowered and controlled by parents, would be far more effective, consistent, and enforceable.

While we figure out how we're going to handle this at SCM and Stud Pups, the free areas of the sites are offline.

As we've received numerous requests to sign up again from prior members, the sign up page is now available for those who wish to purchase a membership. Again, while the free areas are now temporary offline, the "Members Area" for both SCM and Stud Pups is the same as it was before. — In other words, the full uncensored content has been and remains available to members.

So, thanks for reading. Sorry it's so deep. We try to avoid that around here, but there's no fun way around this mess. Elections have consequences. Make your voice heard and vote.

- Matt